Notes and updates from Mojave Paint, a macOS image editor.
The latest version of Mojave Paint (1.5.0) moves over to a 14-day free trial model. Previously it was unlimited duration with the key feature of Export (allowing you to actually get a PNG or JPEG out) gated off behind the "Mojave Paint Pro" in-app purchase. Why this change? For…
I first heard the term "eating your own dogfood" in about 2000, in Gary Kimura's software engineering class at UW. He had been on the Windows NT team, where they developed that version of Windows on the nightly builds of that version of Windows. This creates a lot of pressure to…
Many thanks to klotzbrocken for featuring Mojave Paint on RetroMac's list of recommended external apps. Building interface graphics is exactly the first use case I had in mind while developing the app, and I hope the OS theming community finds it useful.…
I'm very excited to announce the latest version of Mojave Paint, now with much more powerful typographic options. The basics like font, size and color are still available in the Type tool options strip, and these can be used both for "preloading" for your next type layer or for…
This is a big one! 120-some commits, a couple weeks of working pretty much every waking hour. I present: Layer Styles (aka Layer Effects). Stroke Bevel Drop Shadow Outer Glow Inner Glow Inner Shadow Satin Color Overlay Gradient Overlay This is the most-upvoted feature on the…
My friend Eric has a house in Tacoma, a Sears kit home shipped in by rail in 1920. We spend a lot of time there playing darts and grilling meats. Last week we pressure washed his side entry porch and he was wondering what color to paint it. Did we use AI to help us visualize…
As a paid user of Acorn 8 I always look forward to their release notes, and in the Acorn 8.6 release notes I saw linear interpolation for brushes and thought [in kind of a Jon Stewart voice] "maybe add to Mojave Paint?" The technical implementation was easy; I already had…
On Reddit there's about 100,000 posts asking "OK I built an awesome app, now how do I promote it?" It's a bit easier for iOS where you can buy ads in the App Store itself. For Mac you're on your own. My first foray into advertising was to buy an exclusive weekly sponsorship over…
An estimation of the potential worldwide userbase of Mojave Paint, estimated Drake Equation style. The Drake equation – for estimating how many civilizations might be trying to communicate with us. Read my very unscientific analysis at…
I purchased a weeklong sponsorship over at sixcolors.com, check it out at the top of every page: And as part of the package I get a sponsored "thank you" post both on the site and in their RSS feed. RSS feeds… that's not part of my media consumption currently, but it sure makes…
I saw this post marking six years of basicappleguy.com and I thought it would be fun to make a similar graphic in Mojave Paint. First thing would be to save the file and open in Mojave Paint, and pick the colors out as saved swatches. Next I drop the size down to 16x17 so I can…
Too much snapping annoys me -- you're just trying to reposition something and it's snapping to midpoints and all the other objects on all the other layers. So for Mojave Paint we do something a little different and only snap to guides. But the guides themselves snap, so if you…
These "learn Photoshop" tutorials really take me back to 2003, when I was doing continuing education at Shoreline Community College to learn graphic design. The computer labs at that time were all Mac, half OS 9 half OS X, with laminated "Think Different" posters on the walls. I…