Steve's Mediocre Paint

Art can mean a lot of things. Tools used to create it all depend on the artist, and can even be a computer. There are various specialized applications which help create art in the form of drawings, or textures for different purposes. As such, Steve's Mediocre Paint wants to help replace the default Windows tool.

On the bright side of things, the application requires no installation, so it can be your personal paint tool you can carry around on a thumb drive. No traces are left inside system registry entries, but you do need to make sure that Java Runtime Environment is installed on the target computer, because it's a mandatory requirement for functionality.

Accommodation is a walk in the park, mostly because of the large canvas, color palette, and buttons used to select brushes and functions. This also makes it a convenient paint tool for touch-enabled devices, thus enhancing accuracy through its large elements. Load and save options, however, are triggered from the file menu.

There's not really a great variety when it comes to brushes. You can pick from a pen, pencil, brush, eraser, fill tool, dropper, as well as several geometric shapes. Most brushes you select can be customized to use different point ends, and line thickness. Color is selected at the press of a button, with only a primary slot available.

Unfortunately, you need to pay a great deal of attention to every stroke because there's no undo operation to fix mistakes. What's more, file support leaves much to be desired, because the application uses its own format, with no popular formats supported for export, even if you manually write down the desired extension.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Steve's Mediocre Paint is, as the name suggests, a bit mediocre. It comes with a straightforward set of tools, which makes it easy to use, especially on touch-enabled devices. If it wasn't for the disappointing file support, it had better chances of becoming your preferred paint tool.