- Extension
- .paint
- .psb
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Adobe Systems
- Description
- The Mac Paint file, commonly associated with the file extension ".mac", originated from MacPaint, an early graphics editing program developed by Apple Inc. for the original Macintosh computer in 1984. This file type was designed to store black and white bitmap graphics, allowing users to create and manipulate digital images using a variety of tools and brushes. Mac Paint files were known for their simplicity and were widely used for basic graphic editing and illustration tasks during the early days of personal computing. Despite its historical significance, the Mac Paint format has largely been superseded by more advanced graphic file formats that support color and higher resolutions.
- Format used for saving large Photoshop documents over 30,000 by 30,000 pixels in size; supports images up to 300,000 by 300,000 pixels; to enable .psb support, check the "Enable Large Document Format" within the File Handling pane of the Photoshop Preferences window
- MIME Type
- image/x-macpaint
- image/vnd.adobe.photoshop
