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Painting software has come a long way in recent years, and there are now superb programs available completely free that offer a realistic simulation of watercolors, oils, pastels, charcoal, and more. Paintbrush is probably the application that resembles Microsoft Paint best. They even market it as “Paint for Mac OS”. It’s simple: you open a new file with the dimensions you want, and it shows you a white canvas with a toolbox that has all the tools Paint has – right down to the spray can!

What FREE software (included with Mac OS X, or public domain) would be a good, simple way to take some existing PNG clipart files and do some simple editing?

I really only need to do 3 things:

  1. Rotate the image.
  2. Clip the image.
  3. Set a 'transparent' color.

I don't need anything that takes weeks to learn or is super-powerful or super expensive.

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9 Answers

Mitch DempseyMitch Dempsey
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Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/paintbrush/This is a simple little tool.

Pierre WateletPierre Watelet
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Not free, but I like Pixelmator a lot; it's a native Mac Photoshop clone, and it's reasonably cheap (about $60; it was on sale for half price at MacUpdate over the weekend, I'm hoping it shows up there again).

On Windows at work I use Paint.NET, but the Mac port of Mono isn't up to running it yet.

chrishchrish

You could do most of those things with the Preview application on OS X.

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Have you looked at iPhoto? I can't remember if iPhoto does transparency.

But the Gimp is available for mac and easy to install. You can use Mac Ports or download it at the Gimp on Mac.

Gimp requires x11. Which is included with Snow Leopard. It's isn't a big deal to use or install. You do not have to do anything special to use it. Just launch the Gimp and it will launch x11.

If xll isn't on the machine, you can find it on the Snow Leopard install disc.

Let me stress this, you are not gonna find anything else that's open source (free) that does what the Gimp does. Running X11 is a SMALL price to pay to get all that free functionally.

There are several cheap alternatives to Photoshop too. Like Pixelmator. If you want a native mac app.

Stephen CoxStephen Cox

pixen looks like it has those features (but - I'm not any kind of a graphic artist!): I see 90-deg (but not arbitrary angle) rotation, transparent color layers, cutting and cropping.

JRobertJRobert

You could try ImageMagick. It's command-line software rather than an app, and the learning curve is concomitantly steeper. But, since you have such a well-defined set of actions you want to take, learning how to do just those manipulations wouldn't be too hard.

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Preview has a transparency feature

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All you have to do is pull up the image in preview, making sure it's in PNG format, then widen the preview window on the bottom right to see other buttons not readily seen in normal frame.

You will see select button, click the pull down menu where you'll see instant alpha. Put the cursor on the area you want to make transparent, hold mouse down on that area and move mouse to fill area while holding mouse. The area will turn a orange color. Then hit delete, while holding mouse or orange will disappear, for areas to tiny or missed just use the rectangular selection and hit delete.

It actually works great I use it all the time.

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Gary BendlerGary Bendler

For changing all of a specified colour to transparent, pngweasel is excellent. From the developer's page:

pngweasel is a fun little Mac OS X utility we put together to handle a common Web developer's task: converting an image to the PNG image format and making parts of the image's background transparent. It's lightweight, it's free, it's easy to use, and yes, there is a weasel.

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Also reviewed at https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27448/pngweasel

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