EZ Painter

EZ Painter by Team of Monkeys .com is a paint program in the style of the 90s: grey 3D buttons, a navy title bar, a tool box with sixteen tools, a 28-colour palette and crisp, pixel-perfect drawing. Draw something, and it can film itself while you draw it, or let friends draw on the same picture with you.

★ The tool box

• Free-form select, select, eraser, fill with colour, pick colour, magnifier, pencil, brush, airbrush, text, line, curve, rectangle, polygon, ellipse and rounded rectangle
• 12 brush shapes, 4 eraser sizes, 3 spray sizes, 5 line widths and 3 fill styles; the right mouse button paints with the background colour
• Undo and redo, cut, copy and paste, opaque or transparent selections
• Flip, rotate, stretch, invert colours, crop and resize the picture
• Zoom up to 8x with a pixel grid
• Opens and saves PNG, JPEG, BMP and TIFF pictures

★ Record your drawing

Press F9 and EZ Painter films the picture while you draw: every stroke, the shape you are dragging and everyone's pointers, as a WebM video that any browser or video player opens. Choose real time or a time-lapse (2x to 16x) and 10 to 30 frames a second; pause and carry on whenever you like.

★ Draw together

Open a team room and up to 8 friends can draw on the same picture at the same time, each with their own coloured pointer and name, plus a small chat. Rooms work over the local network (Wi-Fi or cable), where they show up in a list, or over Bluetooth between paired computers. There is no server and no account: the room runs on the computer that opens it, the others connect straight to it, and they need its 4-digit room code to get in. Undo takes back only your own last change.

Team rooms over Bluetooth use the system's Bluetooth service, which a snap may only use after this command (run it once): snap connect ezpaint-team:bluez. The local network needs nothing extra.

Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc.; EZ Painter is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bluetooth SIG.