Paint it!

Paint it! is a straightforward application designed to offer easy ways to create beautiful drawings from your usual pictures with the aid of several painting tools and styles. You can turn photos into artistic creations even if you have little or no computer skills.

It's wrapped in a user-friendly interface, with large buttons, divided into the editor pad, the color palette, painting elements, the menu and the default image templates.

Before entering the app, you have to create a registration account by providing some details (e.g. email address, password). Once done, you can either open a recently saved item from the list or a make a new one from scratch. The supported formats are JPG, JPEG, TIFF and PNG.

To view a predefined style, all you have to do is choose it and press the "Play" button. The app transforms the picture into a work of art in just a few seconds. You can stop the automatic drawing at any time, and continue with manual painting.

Some of the preset modes are oil, watercolor sketch, impressionist, modern, pencil, ink and pastel. Each of these helps you add a touch of personality to the images, making them unique.

It's possible to choose the brush from a broad range of types, such as pencil, felt pen, sponge, smudge, fire or fairy dust, as well as change their thickness, opacity and color.

The program lets you zoom in and out, fit the photo to the screen, flip it vertically and horizontally, and rotate it to 90 and 180 degrees.

To sum it up, Paint it! is a useful program that helps you create a piece or art from an existing picture using a rich collection of templates and editing elements, as well as crop and resize the image the way you want.