“If you remember MacPaint, then don’t tell anyone. You’re older than you think. Way back in the day, when Apple’s birth pangs brought us the Mac, it also brought along MacPaint, a bitmap graphics app sans color,” Ron McElfresh reports fro McSolo. “The claim to fame was point and click drawing and integration with MacWrite, Apple’s Mac word processor. MacPaint died in the late 1980s.”
“If MacPaint were alive today, it would look something like iArt Pro. Instead of being priced at $125, as MacPaint 2.0 was back in 1988, it would be priced at $7.99, the same as iArt Pro,” McElfresh reports. “What you get with iArt Pro is familiar to MacPaint users. A color palette, a lasso, an erase, fill with color, pick color, a pencil and brush, a magnifier, and assorted tools from rectangle to curve to line, and effects from blur to sharpen to burn to dodge and more.”
McElfresh reports, “iArt Pro is misnamed and shouldn’t be considered pro anything. I’d like to say that it’s about as simple as a painting app can be. It’s not. $5 less and you can try iPaint which is ruthlessly crude (three brushes and nine colors but no eraser). Free gets you Paintbrush which is really closer to MacPaint and priced right.”
Read more in the full article, with links to the apps, here.