MyPaint installs a desktop icon without asking but uninstalls cleanly.For Windows users there is practically no debate: to make basic image edits they pull Paint. Overall, we were quite impressed with MyPaint, and we recommend it to anyone looking for a high-quality, free painting program.

The program's online documentation provides a comprehensive manual as well as a quick-start tutorial. MyPaint is also compatible with pressure-sensitive graphics tablets.

You can select brushes using customizable hot keys, which is especially useful when working in full-screen mode. A scratchpad lets you experiment-and save your work-without making changes to your main project, and the program also supports the use of layers.īeginners will find MyPaint fun and easy to use, but more experienced artists will appreciate its more advanced features, including settings for brush opacity, dabbing, smudging, and tracking. We found the program's color sampler tool easier to use than most, making it easy for us to select our desired color quickly. You'll find all the traditional brushes here and quite a few unusual ones, too. The first thing we noticed when we started playing around with MyPaint was the huge variety of brushes that it comes with, from classic pencils, markers, and paintbrushes to pixels, fur, and leaves.

It has a toolbar and menu bar across the top of the interface, and we appreciated the fact that the program's designers managed to arrange its numerous features in an uncluttered, commonsense format. MyPaint manages to pack a lot of unique and useful features into a clean, intuitive interface, and we think it's among the best digital painting programs we've seen. There are numerous digital painting programs on the market these days, and many of the ones we've encountered have either been short on features or confusing to use (or, in the worst cases, both).

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