Yet Another Paint

Yet Another Paint is a straightforward application designed to help create simple paintings with the aid of different sized brushes, geometrical forms, and lines. You can also add text boxes to sign your designs.

The app comes as a portable executable, which launches the program directly when clicked. However, make sure you have Java installed on the computer, as it's required for the tool to run. Thanks to its portability, it can be carried on an external drive and started on any PC.

Existing designs (e.g. JPG, PNG, GIF, JPEG) can be opened from the PC and further edited. You also have the choice to start from scratch. The color palette is divided into five distinct modes, such as swatches, HSV, HSL, RGB and CMYK, offering full-color customization.

From the menu, you can change the background color and the look of the displayed cursor (smiley, tree, arrow, fish). The lack of options makes it hard to create complex paintings, as you can only choose from the brush, air brush, and eye dropper. Plus, it would've been good if the app provided more geometrical forms to pick from and additional customization options for the text.

Compared with other similar painting programs, you don't have the choice to resize, crop and flip the picture, nor apply a few effects (noise, emboss, swirl) and adjustments (e.g. brightness, contrast, hue, gamma). The result can be saved only as a JPEG image.

On an ending note, Yet Another Paint is a neat program that comes in handy especially for those who are looking for simple tools to paint drawings, and insert shapes and lines. Due to its portability, the utility doesn't generate registry entries, nor occupy too much space on the disk. Plus, it doesn't eat too many system resources.