![]() ![]() If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.So when I first made the switch from Windows to macOS a few years back, one of the gripes I had and can imagine many other people having too is the absence of a stand-alone basic graphics or painting utility application. One thing I use constantly when writing posts is MS Paint to edit screenshots and sometimes featured images. In short, there are following options available for Paint on Mac: Since I decided to do everything on my MacBook for this blog I needed to find an equivalent of Paint on Mac. Install Paint app on Mac on top of Wine based platform.Use Paint alternatives such as Paintbrush or Pixelmator.In my article about Notepad on Mac, I described how to install Notepad++ on Mac with the help of Winebottler. The Winebottler also has an option for MSPaint 2010 install, but no matter what I did the installation was failing on multiple MacBooks I used. Still determined to find a way to run native Windows app on Mac I found another Wine based platform: PlayOnMac. If you curious the way Wine works is by translating API calls from Windows programs to the operating system from Windows to macOS. ![]() This is not an emulator, in fact, the name Wine is an acronym that stands for “Wine Is Not Emulator”. ![]() This means that only a small subset of Windows calls was translated and it requires quite a bit of work in order to run Windows applications on Wine. That’s why users instead of copying programs directly from Windows to Wine need some kind of packaging tool where other people did all this work for you. In the case of Paint such tool is PlayOnMac. To install PlayOnMac download the image from the link.Īfter download double click on DMG file to unpack the app. ![]() If you are curious about DMG files, what they are and how safe to install them check my article on this topic. ![]()
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