MyPaint

Just found this software when looking around for a painting tool that wil be faster to delivery than GIMP. Works perfect so far. The interface is really going the way the makers want it to - right after installing it I was up with doodling around without having to worry about complicated settings and such.... Hope this software catches up with more people. Perfect lightweight painting tool!!

The strength of MyPaint definitely lies in the strong/straightforward brush customization and unlimited canvas features. It virtually has no image filters, nor any fancy tools you can find in any-other-image-editor, only a color selector, and layer feature... but you don't need them to doodle around!!!! If you double click the MyPaint icon, you are ready to draw in a new canvas with access to infinite brushes. As a friend of mine likes to repeat, MyPaint is best used together with Photoshop/GIMP: doodle in MyPaint, edit in Photoshop/GIMP. I guess, something in between would be PaintToolSAI

I last used this program 4 years ago and thought I'd try it again under Win7. I tried the stand-alone but it'd crash a lot, however the install exe installed and ran fine. The interface was more "gnomish" than traditional, but now has a proper menu system and dockers which can be turned on an off, including oddly, more than one type of colour selector (try moving the colour on one and see how it moves on the others)! But MyPaint's its own creature with its own shortcuts. You won't find SPACE + Drag cursor to drag the canvas for examplle (ued on a lot of edditors that imitate Photoshop) but the right mouse button + cursor drag will do the same.

This is an editor designed for sketching with natural type brushes and effects. It's like drawing on paper with conte or ink, or whatever brush you want. You wont find rules and guides here, but (like Paint Tool SAI) you might have a lot of fun! Idea for drawing with a tablet and a notebook/laptop.

MyPaint is an excellent application for uncompromising sketches or drawings. The infinite canvas allows you to make drawings at will, without worrying about the space available in a "virtual paper". You can do a more serious job with this, but your options are limited.

This app is VERY SPECIFICALLY AIMED AT DRAWING.

This is NOT a general-purpose image editor.

You can't even select an area of an image, and people have been asking for that since 2016.