Patina - Paint, Draw, and Sketch with Ease for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By CaptZaldivar

  Excellant Basic Drawing Program

  The user interface is straight forward and simple. Great entry level drawing and painting app for kids and those with lite drawing needs. Price is awesome! The only thing I could ask for, and be willing to pay more $$ for, is a limited number of layers. No more than five, three being ideal for tracing, color and lineart. Folks just starting out drawing or with lite drawing needs often want to trace or practice on other artwork. If this app had layers, it would be a perfect entry level drawing app on the APP Store. I love the slider for brush size. Comment… I see another reviewer really lowered their review due to lack of UNDO, cmd-z works perfectly on this app, not sure why that was a negative. Some say it is too limited in features, but that is the beauty of an entry level app. New Artist, kids and special needs people really need a basic program. There are plenty of programs to “GROW” into as your art improves. Please don’t evolve this into a PHOTOSHOP clone to where you have to chrage $100 to stay in the game. The people that this is aimed at need an entry level program.

  
  
• By Scalt

  Best Windows Paint replacement for the Windows

  Was in the “Windows Only” group from the mid 1980’s until buying my 2011 PC. Use Windows 10 at work but Windows at home. Love me Microsoft. For years I have been using Microsoft Paint to edit images to illustrate teaching the use of a program or new feature. Became very skilled with Paint to “Photoshop” an amge with the high cost of Photoshop. Have been so sold on Microsoft I also purchased a Windows Mini. Over time Microsoft decided to embrace the Microsoft hardware and has done a great job bringing the Office suite to the Windows. The biggest void on my Windows’s have been a Paint replacement. After extensive searching I found Patina. The one tool I always use in Paint was the eye dropper. Problem was I wasn’t finding it. Tried several higher end products but they were over my head for now and did not want to spend months learning. Then I discovered Patina. Would have preferred a demo version but $2.99 wasn’t going to break me. So far I love Patina. It has all the features that I have been using in Paint.

  
  
• By DireColt

  Excellent replacement for Microsoft Paint

  I was a regular user of Microsoft Paint for doing mockups and annotations with images. I had gotten quite good at being able to manipulate the images, without having to deal with the complexities of Photoshop, layers, etc. So, when I bought Patina, after reading the positive reviews, I was hoping that it would match my expectations and allow me to do the same work on my Windows. My expectations were met completely with Patina and I have found that I can everything that I could do before and in some areas it is even easier. If you are looking for a Microsoft Paint replacement for the Windows this will not disappoint. To all of those reviewers that are expecting more than a bitmap editor this is not for you. It does what the developers say it does.

  
  
• By Ejemery21

  Windows paint, lives up to expectations

  A great replacement for paint, very easy to use. If you expect a photoshop-like app or other complicated art tools, you’ll be disappointed (which seems to be the majority of the poor reviews). With a simple ‘palette’, you can make any color and get lines, dotted lines, customized curves, squares, triangles, circles, rounded squares, and some arrows, which is great for small projects and mock ups. This isn’t a criticism, and it’s very picky, but it would be great if the developers could get some more shapes in the future (diamond, hexagon, etc.). This would just be a convenience thing, as you can see I still gave it 5 stars.

  
  

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