
You can easily create speech bubbles, by the way, by adding a little pointy bit to your sketched ellipses, and Preview will give it a different coloured interior where you can easily add text. They seem the same at first – both are directly controlled pen tools that let you draw freely on the image in whatever colour has been selected in the dropdown three from the right – but the results are very different.ĭraw simply accepts your mark and renders it as a movable layer Sketch interprets the shape you’ve made and sort of smartens it up, so a rough circle will turn into a proper circle, a rough rectangle will get perfectly straight sides and so on. InDesign is Adobe's new Flagship standard-bearer and is a more complete. The third and fourth tools along are Sketch and Draw respectively. They even had Desk Accessories as paint programs for the early Macs, like. It also offers a great freehand experience. Oh, and for free theres Pinta, which is modelled after Paint. Paintbrush is a veteran drawing app for Mac, though it’s similar to the classic Microsoft Paint in terms of functionality. We’ve found it a bit unreliable – give it a try for yourself.) Sketch and Draw Its not as complicated as Photoshop, but more advanced than Paint.

(There’s also a ‘Smart Lasso’ that is like the Polygon Selection tool but will try its adjust its selection to shapes and colour blocks in the image.


On the far left you’ll find a shape selection tool, which can be used to grab a rectangle, ellipse or manually selected shape from the image and then delete it, copy and paste it, and so on.
