Guides for drawing and painting on Mac
Step-by-step guides for drawing and painting on your Mac — every one about something Paint My really does.
Photo Tools
Turn a photo into a painting, stroke by stroke
Paint It for Me paints your photo with real brush strokes in pencil, colored pencil, watercolor or crayon, on your Mac.
Turn a photo into a sketch or line art on Mac
Turn a photo into ink line art, a pencil sketch, a comic or a blueprint on your Mac, then draw over it on its own layer.
Remove the background from a photo on Mac
Lift the subject out of a photo on your Mac in one click, then paint a new background or export a transparent PNG.
From paper sketch to Mac painting, with your iPhone
Photograph or scan a paper sketch with your iPhone or iPad, and it lands on a new layer on your Mac, ready to ink and color.
Media
Watercolor on your Mac, wet edges and all
Paint watercolor on your Mac: translucent washes that build up, settle with darker edges and dry, on “Watercolor Paper”.
Oil, gouache and acrylic painting on Mac
Paint opaque oil with ridged impasto on your Mac, plus gouache and acrylic. Smudge wet paint and mix colors in the Mixing Well.
A sketching app for Mac with real pencil grain
Sketch with HB and 6B pencils, charcoal, colored pencil and ink on 8 surfaces, with pressure and tilt shading.
Calligraphy and hand lettering on Mac
Draw letters with a 45° flat calligraphy nib, a brush pen, a fountain pen and a chisel marker. The pens respond to pressure.
Pixel art on Mac, crisp to the last pixel
Draw pixel art on your Mac: the Pixel Brush snaps to a 4–64 px grid, keeps lines pixel-perfect and is in the free version.
Studio
Layers and blend modes, made for painting on Mac
Paint on layers with 27 blend modes, opacity, lock and visibility. 3 layers free, no layer limit with Pro.
Symmetry drawing and mandalas on Mac
Mirror or rotate each brush stroke on your Mac: left-right and up-down are free; quad and radial ×4, ×6, ×8 or ×12 come with Pro.
Open, paint and export PSD files on Mac
Open layered PSD files on your Mac, paint on them, then export a layered PSD, a PNG or a JPEG. Every export is free.
Made for your drawing tablet on Mac
Pressure changes size or flow on 46 brush styles, tilt shades on 13, and “Steady” smooths your lines.
Getting Started
Looking for Paint on a Mac? Meet Paint My
Macs don’t come with a Paint app. Paint My adds one: brushes, shapes, fill, gradients, selections, layers and free exports.
Start digital painting on your Mac
Paint on your Mac with a mouse, trackpad or pen tablet: 57 brush styles, 8 surfaces, layers and stroke smoothing.
A drawing app for kids on Mac, with nothing to sign up for
A drawing app kids can use on a Mac: pencils, chalk, markers, paint and spray, easy undo, no account, no data collected.
Start painting
Open it, pick a brush, and the paper is already there.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Mac only · App interface in English