FullPaint was a software program for the
Apple Macintosh for graphics creation. It was developed by
Ann Arbor Softworks and was sold as a more powerful alternative to Apple's
MacPaint.
One of the notable features that differentiated it from MacPaint was its resizable window, and with it the ability to scroll within the document using scroll bars rather than by dragging with the Hand Tool.
The rest of the interface was closely modeled on MacPaint's, with a palette of familiar tools such as the Pencil, Paintbrush, and Paint Bucket, which have survived today in
Adobe Systems
Adobe Inc. ( ), originally called Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American multinational computer software company incorporated in Delaware
and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the crea ...
Photoshop. FullPaint also introduced the screen modes (windowed, full screen with menubar, and full screen without menubar) and the iconic selectors for them which were later used in
Photoshop.
Like MacPaint, this was a black-and-white graphics application as the hardware available did not support true grayscale. Grays were simulated using a technique called
dithering.
See also
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MacPaint
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FullWrite Professional
FullWrite Professional was a word processor application for the Apple Macintosh, released in late 1988 by Ashton-Tate. The program was notable for its combination of a true WYSIWYG interface, powerful long-document processing features, and a wel ...
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SuperPaint (Macintosh)
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CricketPaint
Cricket Paint was a second generation 1-bit (black and white) painting software program for the Apple Macintosh by Cricket Software. It followed MacPaint and was a competitor to Silicon Beach Software's SuperPaint. Like ''SuperPaint'' it was a ...
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List of old Macintosh software
References
External links
FullPaint at the Macintosh Garden
Macintosh-only software
Proprietary raster graphics editors
Classic Mac OS software
Discontinued software
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