Free Pixel-Based Editing and Painting Software for Macintosh

Paintbrush is a basic image editor that may be viewed as a Mac OS X equivalent of Microsoft Paint or MacPaint. Paintbrush is designed to allow users to very quickly produce simple images.

Image Tricks is a fun and versatile free image editor designed to produce creative results on Mac OS X. Image Tricks encourages experimentation and offers the ability for a wide range of effects to be combined and applied to pictures.

LiveQuartz is an image editing application for OS X that offers the power of non-destructive filters. LiveQuartz is a capable image editor particularly well suited for OS X users looking for a tool for working with their digital photos. The basic drawing tools also offer some flexibility to create more artistic results.

Pinta is a clone of Paint.NET for Mac OS X. The free image editor Pinta offers the basic drawing tools that you'd expect from an image editor, as well as more advanced features, such as layers and image adjustment tools. Pinta is a viable tool for users looking to edit and improve digital photos.

Seashore is a free pixel-based image editor suitable for basic image enhancement and more advanced creative work on Mac OS X.

Even if you can't spend a lot, you can still enjoy a functional, well-designed image editor. This software is free or shareware, which means it's developed by individuals and can't be purchased in a retail store.

Seashore is a free pixel-based image editor for Mac users seeking an alternative to GIMP.

ImageWell is a handy dandy "Swiss Army Knife" image editor for Mac. It offers lots of essential features in a small, tidy package. To begin using ImageWell, just drag and drop an image right onto the ImageWell window. The most commonly used features are right there in the main window -- you can rename the image, rotate it, adjust the size and compression amount, add a watermark, and more.

ArtRage is a fun, easy to use program that's great for experimenting with digital art, especially if you also own a pressure sensitive graphics tablet. The free version is a great way to see what digital painting and drawing is like, but for the small upgrade price, you'll no doubt want to move up to the full version.

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"Beautiful Dorena is a free, experimental paint program for Macintosh. It contains a myriad of practical and impractical picture creation tools and features. If you have a video camera you can hook it up to your computer and fun painting with live video. It also has a fictional back-story about its creation and a built-in soundscape. Beautiful Dorena was made by the original creator of Kid Pix."

This is an older version of Compositor, image to art software for Macintosh. This version is offered free with no limitations.

GIMP is the popular open source image editor originally developed for Unix. Here's where you can download the latest Macintosh release and get news about its development.

"Image Tricks is a free image editing application that allows you to use Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters. With the program you can easily edit and apply various effects and filters to your photos and images."

This public domain image processor from the National Institutes of Health supports TIFF, PICT, PICS and MacPaint files, and offers tools to acquire, edit, enhance, analyze, and animate images.