Patina is the highest rated Microsoft® Paint replacement app in the Mac App Store. Tools and color management in Patina are simple and intuitive.
You can use Patina to sketch an idea, draw a diagram, illustrate a concept, or paint a picture.
The screen shots here showcase the type of artwork you can do in Patina, but Patina is great for all kinds of other personal and work purposes too.
Patina can even be used as a basic image management tool for cropping, rotating, resizing, and saving photos as a different file type. (If you also have a Windows computer, check out our Sizester image resizing app at sizester.com.)
As a Mac user accustomed to attractive, well-designed software, you’ll appreciate Patina’s elegant interface and user-friendly design.
If you’ve used Microsoft Paint before, you’ll find that Patina is as simple to use as Paint, if not simpler, and has additional really useful features, including rotation of objects at any angle, transparent image saving, opening/importing of PDF, AI, and PSD files, and more.
Unlike most other Paint-like apps that are derivations of an open source program, Patina was designed and built from scratch in the US with great care and attention to detail to be as easy to use as possible.
We’re confident that you’ll find Patina to be the best simple painting, drawing, and sketching app in the Mac App Store.
Be sure to check out the tutorial screen in the app (go to the Patina menu, then click on “Show Tutorial”) and the demo video on patinaapp.com (note that the demo video is from an earlier version of the app and doesn’t include all current features).
Read the FAQs on our support page patinaapp.com/support if you want to learn about advanced features, such as transparent background, controlling rotation in fixed increments, smooth edges (anti-aliasing), smooth resizing (interpolation), alpha color blending, DPI settings, and more.
Contact us at [email protected] if you cannot figure out how to do something.
Please note that Patina is not a vector app, does not have layers, and does not allow you to manipulate already drawn objects in the same way that you can in a layout app like Pages or in a presentation app like Keynote or PowerPoint.
If you have a comment or suggestion, please email us at [email protected]. We greatly value and appreciate your input. Some new features are the direct result of feedback from users.
Patina is Retina optimized and works great with all versions of OS X starting with 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and including macOS Sierra.
If you like Patina, we really appreciate you letting other Mac users know about the quality of the app by leaving a rating in the Mac App Store for this current version, and writing a review if you have time. We offer Patina at a low price to make it available to as many people as possible, and in order to support our ongoing efforts to continually improve the app, it’s really helpful if our users can rate it. Thank you for taking a moment to do that for us!
Patina is crafted with care in California and Washington.
Quality assurance and testing assistance by CodeFinesse.
Copyright © 2015-2017 Atek, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Atek and Patina are registered trademarks of Atek, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Apple, the Apple logo, and Mac are registered trademarks or trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Microsoft, Windows, and Paint are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Atek, Inc. and the Patina app have no affiliation with Microsoft Corporation or the Microsoft Paint software application.
What’s New
Version 1.2
Patina is now better than ever. Here’s what’s new in this version:
• Improvement in “undo” functionality (sorry for any instability you may have experienced previously – it should be rock solid stable now)
• Improvement in methods for saving transparent images (for more details, read the related topics in the Quick Start Guide and FAQs on patinaapp.com/support)
• Added support for opening/importing EPS format files
When you read reviews, keep in mind that most comments that are not positive are either because before buying the app the user didn’t first read here the description of what the app does do and does not do, or because the user assumed the app doesn’t do something that it actually does do, and they would know it does do that if they read the Quick Start Guide and FAQs, or if they simply asked us.
