MacPaint in the Cloud

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If you were around for the debut of the Macintosh in the 1980s, you might have a soft spot in your heart for a little application called MacPaint.

It gave users the amazing (at that time) capability to create and edit monochrome pixel artwork with tools like a paintbrush, pencil, eraser, shapes, patterns, and even a can of spray paint. MacPaint is the great granddaddy of Photoshop CC and the descendants of its original tools live on in many of our modern graphics apps.

By today’s standards MacPaint is utterly primitive, and yet to many geeks (myself included) it still retains its ancestral awesomeness. And if you want a taste of that awesomeness, check out Cloupaint.com, where you can use MacPaint today (even on an iPad!) and party with pixels like it was 1984. Just remember you only have one level of undo. Use it wisely.

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher.
  • Paco Plaza says:

    This is the very first tool I’ve learned to paint my 70’s and 80’s rock bands cassette’s sleeves to print them in a Imagewriter II back in 1986 when I was just a kid.  It is so cool how you could spent hours, days and weeks using that brush, adding and removing pixels all around to create shades to an entire artwork. MacPaint has been definitely the tool that took me to what I do today.

    Thank you for bring back such a wonderful memory. 

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