If there is text within the shapes, both the shape and text moves as one unit, saving you from moving the shapes and text as separate elements.

There are, also, diagramming programs, that have make drawing simple geometric shapes easier to do and easier to move around and esier to edit and change their appaerance. What type of diagrams are you drawing/painting? So, there's the quick tutorial about layers. You can, also, more easily move elements around on a layer more easily that having all the elements on a drawing or painting on one layer. If you don't alike what you did on a layer, you can erase an entire layer and start drawing or painting on that layer, again, or delete the layer entirely. If you want to alter elements on a layer only that layer gets affected. You can build up a drawing or painting by putting different elements on different layers. Think of layers as multiple sheet of clear paper or thin sheets of clear plastic that you can draw or paint on. 'This has layers in them ' Why are you afraid of applications that use layers? Layers are one of the easier concepts of both drawing and painting apps to understand and use. + the Straight-line button results in straight lines which are limited to fixed angles. If there are ways to get this feature of drawing straight lines in this app, please let me know. I have used Microsoft's Paint to draw diagrams to scale.

However, I feel that it does not allow one to draw straight lines. You have given the correct instruction as to how one can add color in paintbrush. I have downloaded 'paintbrush for Mac' from the internet but find that it does not have the tools which MS Paint has, and more importantly, I can work only with 2 colors.white an black.Ĭan anyone point out to me any free download that allows me to work in color too? FYI I do have Adobe photoshop but feel uncomfortable in trying to learn it! A personal 'irrational' dislike! Somanna wrote: Thanks for your reply. Hello to all, I come from a windows background and am very familiar with the simple 'paint' application I am searching for an equivalent app for my Mac. You can draw in a similar fasion to Microsoft’s Paint, and you can add text. Preview - the default Mac program for opening images, PDFs, and other files - comes with a few editing tools.

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