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MacPaint
When the Mac first came out in the mid-’80s, it shipped with MacPaint and MacWrite. The former, while it was pretty impressive at the time, has long since been abandoned by Claris, its developer. The MacPaint format for bitmapped graphics is still supported by many paint and draw programs , though, because there’s still a lot of artwork (including clip art) around in that format. MacPaint files are black and white, and they’re all 7 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches, regardless of the elements they contain.
Its main, and perhaps only, strength is its capability to allow for area pattern fills. Pattern fills can be used to paint with or as fills for type.
You can also edit any pattern in the MacPaint library, using the default patterns as a basis. This is done through the pattern dialog box. MacPaint has no capability to allow you to save the new edited pattern, unless you grab the screen and save it as a whole. MacPaint files have to be translated to bitmap format before being suitable for import into Photoshop. Once imported, they can be translated to grayscale, and from there to standard RBG. As an RGB file, color, gradients, and image effects can be applied, using MacPaint images as a basis for further creation.