PaintPlus is an easy-to-use application to create drawings on a blank drawing area or in existing pictures.
Many of the tools you use in PaintPlus can be found on the top tool bar of the window.
(This free version application limits canvas size to 1000 x 1000 pixels, update to Pro version to remove the limitation)
Application main features:
+ BASIC DRAWING TOOLS:
Basic drawing tools are as following:
- Brush, pencil, erase, fill colour, pickup colour ...
- Magic wand selection, rectangle selection, oval selection...
+ ANNOTATION SHAPES:
There are over 100 basic annotation shapes to add to your drawing. You could add/change text to display inside the shape.
You could also merge these shapes into background to apply colour filter if necessary.
+ EMOJI:
There are over 1200 colourful emoji objects.
+ DRAG DROP:
The application allows to DRAG/DROP many image files directly from Finder to current editing window to add them to the diagram.
+ IMAGE ENHANCE:
Select an image area then apply following filter effects:
– Keep only one colour
– Grayscale
– Invert colour
– Adjust Red, Green, Blue level
– Adjust Hue, Saturation level
– Apply Texture Masks
– Crystalline image
– Blur
– Glass Distortion
– Gloom, Bloom image
– Apply comic effect
...
+ OPEN/SAVE to “*.PaintPlus” file:
In case your drawing contains independent (annotation) objects, please save to PaintPlus file type so that you could edit these objects later.
+ EXPORT TO IMAGE FILE:
Press “⌘E” to export current diagram to an image file with format of TIFF or PNG, JPEG, PDF...
+ COPY / PASTE:
The application supports copy/paste function for shapes.
You could copy shapes/lines from current canvas window then paste them to another window or to another application.
Example:
Select an area in the canvas, then press “⌘C”to capture image.
Open [Preview] application, press “⌘N” to paste above captured image to view or to save to an image file.
Of course, you could paste that image to Excel, Word application too.