Titan38 Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 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. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan38 Posted June 26, 2010 Author Share Posted June 26, 2010 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APShredder Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 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. BlendModes Plus | Dissolve | Extract Color Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Options to try: PixelMator (Not sure whether freemium or payware) Acorn (Freemium) Krita (Open-source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Seashore http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 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. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agtooth95 Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Not sure if you've seen Pinta before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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