Top 15 Microsoft Paint Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Paint (formerly Paintbrush) is a simple, ultra-basic graphics painting program that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows. It opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency), PNG (without alpha channel), and TIFF (without the multiple pages).

1. Corel PaintShop Pro

Corel PaintShop Pro Enter a world of infinite creativity with the comprehensive photo-editing and graphic design power of PaintShop Pro X8. Accelerate your photo editing with enhanced layers, more precise selection tools, faster brushes and extensive productivity-boosting improvements. Bring ideas to life with the most versatile photo-editing software value anywhere.......

2. BlackMagic

BlackMagic BlackMagic shareware software for Windows - the simplest way to convert black and white photos and images to Color [Colorize] - by NeuralTek.com......

3. Xara Photo & Graphic Designer

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (formerly Xara Xtreme) is quite simply the worlds fastest graphics software, with truly flexible illustration tools and revolutionary photo handling. A single application for all types of creative work.......

4. Amazon Paint

Amazon Paint Amazon Paint, the industry standard paint system, has been used on such films as Shrek, Moulin Rouge, Monsters Inc, The Matrix, Titanic, The Fifth Element, and Starship Troopers. With an extensive palette of tools in addition to the flexibility of user customizable scripting and macro editing, Amazon is the final......

5. Microsoft Expression Design

Microsoft Expression Design Microsofts professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images. More oriented towards editing web graphics and creating XAML rather than print graphics. Expression Design is not available as an individual product, but rather as part of the Expression Studio suite. It requires the .NET framework.......

6. Bloom

Bloom Bloom is a fast, light-weight, cross-platform procedural graphics editor that lets you tweak any action you have ever performed - organized by layer.Bloom is the first editor to allow true non-destructive editing. Every filter, effect, brush stroke or vector edit you apply is stored separately, and nothing is baked in.......

7. Pixelitor

Pixelitor Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports image filters, drawing, layers, multiple undo, etc. Currently its main strength lies in the more than 70 image filters and color adjustments, some of which are unique.Features:- Layers.- Unlimited undo.- Image filters.- Color adjustments.- Drawing.......

8. PictBear

PictBear PictBear is an image editor and paint program that is very friendly toward the beginning user, PictBear is very straightforward and easy to use no matter what your skill level is.......

9. TwistedBrush Studio

TwistedBrush Studio TwistedBrush is a digital paint software and photo editor that supplies a wide variety of natural art tools. Two versions are available:TwistedBrush Pro Studio:--------------------------------TwistedBrush Pro Studio includes everything that TwistedBrush has to offer including over 5000 brushes and full brush editing all at a great price. Great for original digital......

10. Hej Stylus!

Hej Stylus! Hej Stylus! is the first stroke stabilizer software for mac OS X 10.8.5+. Hej Stylus! makes your cursor behave like a flexible brush - for example a pin striping brush. The effect varies with the chosen radius – from dangling out little dents in your lineart to knocking out any......

11. Leonardo

Leonardo • Swift workflowLeonardo has a beautiful and easy-to-use interface that will scale to any screen and works great for both left- and right-handed people.• Blazing speedLeonardo starts in less than half a second. It saves your file in a blink and makes it possible to paint with a large brush......

12. EZ paint

EZ paint EZ paint is a free alternative to Microsoft Paint .EZ Paint has over 50 interactive tools to make designing graphic illustrations easier. There are 6 tools for drawing lines, poly-connected lines, curves, arcs, arches and semicircles. There are 33 tools for drawing filled shapes with outlines. With......

13. Wizardbrush

Wizardbrush Wizardbrush is a natural media painting software which has a lot of brushes and paper with realism style. You can create realistic picture with it. You can not only use it to paint pictures, but also handle your digital photos, even use it to teach digital painting and image processing......

14. Enlight

Enlight An addictive and creative photographic experience. The only all-in-one iPhoneography app for creating masterpieces.......

15. Paintbrush

Paintbrush Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.......