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[Titan38]

Hi,
I have been an avid paint.net user for a very long time. However, I recently upgraded my PC to a Mac. But unfortunately, paint.net does not have a Mac alternative. Do you know any good alternatives to paint.net that are extremely similar and able to work on Mac? Thanks in advanced.

-Titan38

[Rick Brewster]

You're not the only one in this predicament, ex. http://lifehacker.co...ould-be-on-macs

The best recommendation I have is, honestly, to buy a copy of Parallels Desktop, http://www.parallels.com , and run Paint.NET in its emulated environment. They make it so that the Paint.NET window looks like an app that's running on your Mac desktop. Imagine taking a screenshot of your Mac desktop, then pasting in a screenshot of just Paint.NET, and there you go.

Performance is good. It works pretty well and will also let you run any other Windows software that you may need or prefer to use.

[Titan38]

You're not the only one in this predicament, ex. http://lifehacker.co...ould-be-on-macs

The best recommendation I have is, honestly, to buy a copy of Parallels Desktop, http://www.parallels.com , and run Paint.NET in its emulated environment. They make it so that the Paint.NET window looks like an app that's running on your Mac desktop. Imagine taking a screenshot of your Mac desktop, then pasting in a screenshot of just Paint.NET, and there you go.

Performance is good. It works pretty well and will also let you run any other Windows software that you may need or prefer to use.

Thanks a lot, I will consider that as a pretty good option.
Do you know if you guys are working on making a Mac version sometime in the near future?

[APShredder]

From the FAQs:

(1) Will it ever be ported to Mac OS, Linux, or any other operating system?
(2) What about Mono support? Wouldn't that be really easy?
We will not be doing any work to directly support Mac OS, Linux, Mono, or any other platform. We are doing this in order to focus on the best quality and support for the platform that we develop on: Windows with .NET. Also, we simply do not have the resources or expertise to do any of this work.

EDIT: You could always try GIMP, however. Its UI can be a bit confusing at first, but once you bet used to it, it has many similar features to Paint.NET.

[Simon Brown]

Options to try:

• PixelMator (Not sure whether freemium or payware)
• Acorn (Freemium)
• Krita (Open-source)

[csm725]

PixelMator = $0.00

[Sarkut]

Seashore

http://seashore.sour...ject/About.html

[Rick Brewster]

Thanks a lot, I will consider that as a pretty good option.
Do you know if you guys are working on making a Mac version sometime in the near future?

It will never happen.

[agtooth95]

Not sure if you've seen Pinta before.