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A digital drawing of a person’s face in high-contrast black and white. The artwork is displayed within a browser window for a painting app called “cloudpaint.com”, surrounded by a toolbar of drawing tools and a colour palette.

Miscellaneous: Waste a few minutes on amazing online MacPaint app, Cloud Paint

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Date
28 January 2014

Ding ding ding! It’s procrastination time! Join me in a spot of time travel back to when you first played on a computer, when the internet didn’t exist and all you had to entertain your unpolluted mind was MacPaint! (Or Microsoft Paint, whatever). This “painting tool” program has been coded by Martin Braun as a homage to the original MacPaint creators Bill Atkinson and Susan Kare, and is incredibly enjoyable. Sit back and have the pleasure of getting reacquainted with some of your long lost paint tools such as the simple shape tools and bucket fill. Am I getting old or is PhotoShop just getting too complicated these days? Gimme Cloud Paint any day.

A screenshot of a web browser showing the website “cloudpaint.com”. A small, grey drawing application window sits in the centre of a plain grey screen.
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Martin Braun: Cloud Paint

A screenshot of a simple web-based drawing application called “cloudpaint.com”. The interface features a white canvas surrounded by a grey toolbar with basic drawing tools and a colour palette.
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Martin Braun: Cloud Paint

A screenshot of a digital drawing application called “cloudpaint.com” open in a web browser. The canvas contains a simple black and white composition of a square, two overlapping circles and a jagged line.
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Martin Braun: Cloud Paint

A screenshot of a web browser showing a simple digital drawing tool called “cloudpaint.com”. A black and white canvas displays a thick, wavy line with a dotted pattern underneath.
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Martin Braun: Cloud Paint

A screenshot of a digital drawing tool called “cloudpaint.com” open in a web browser. A simple smiley face is drawn in black on a white canvas, surrounded by a grey interface of brushes and colour palettes.
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Martin Braun: Cloud Paint

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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