It includes a simple brush-based freehand drawing tool, an eraser tool, a select tool, a freehand spray can tool which applies several pixels onto an area instead of just one, a fill tool, a 'bomb' tool that clears the page, a line tool, a curve tool, square, circle/oval, and rounded square tools, text tool, a color picker/eyedropper, and a zoom in/zoom out tool. The application also is often used for pixel art because of its grid option, and is not made for large scale images or GIMP or Photoshop-like editing on pictures or photographs. It exports as PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF. It has basic raster image editing capabilities and a simple interface designed for ease of use. It aims to replace MacPaint, an image editor for the classic Mac OS last released in 1988. Paintbrush is a raster image editor for Mac OS X. JSTOR ( April 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'Paintbrush' software – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.