MiniPaint Beta- Have Some Fun With Your Pictures!

on 22 Nov 2009 06:23 PM

Looking to have a little fun with the photos on your BlackBerry smartphone? Josep over at MiBlackBerry pointed out a cool new beta application that may interest some of you out there. MiniPaint allows for on device editing of your photos to assist in creating some funny results, as seen above. You can add clipart, text and even resize the photos all from your device.

The application being beta, does have a few issues but nothing that isn't easily workable. First off the navigation is a little hard to get used to as you physically need to use the "enter" key often as opposed to actually pushing the trackball in to submit changes. Also, when saving pics you will have the MiniPaint logo on all them but hey, it's beta, it's free and a commercial version will be available at a later time with even more features added to it.

MiniPaint has support for OS 4.5 and up, BlackBerry Storm remains and untested device so if you download it and it works, send some feedback letting the developers know.

For More Information And Downloads Head To The MiniPaint Website>>

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30 Comments

Posted by atype77 Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

Sounds like fun!!!

Posted by ssjtiamat Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

Dont be fooled. When you get to the main page it will give you the news feed with product updates. Go to the downloads in the column on the left side for an email link to be sent.

Posted by Bla1ze Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

In regards to the commerical launch of the application. RIM forced them to rename the app as it was prev. named BBPaint, due to the app world rules, it is now MiniPaint.

Posted by JasW Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

That would seem to be the logical choice if you can't call it BBPaint. Or maybe even PaintBerry.

Posted by ssjtiamat Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

Sorry.. tried. No go.

Posted by boman06210 Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

Not for the storm :(

Posted by savjr Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

Poor User Interface for the Storm - had to delete it. Oh Well

Posted by MattSpartans20 Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

its alright but its not very user friendly, you have to use the enter key a lot to get things to work cause if you hit the trackball then it brings up the Options menu and just allows you to close it, also when using any of the features they appear on the right side of the screen and if you scroll up past the top of the list of them then the cursor disappears and you have to click close to get out of it. few glitches to work out but seems like a decent addition to App World when it gets there

Posted by MattSpartans20 Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

oops sorry double post

Posted by musicandnumbers Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

Doesn't work well at all. Touch screen is challenging, you can't hide the keyboard, and there doesn't seem to be a way to select/deselect easily. App deleted!

Posted by RoxyGr52884 Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

The concept is a great one, but, the application itself is poor. My Tour kept on freezing and it wouldn't let me add text (unless I was doing it wrong).

Oh well, I'll just wait for the updated version!

Posted by LuLu051705 Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

I mean if you really wanna add some clip art to your pics then yeah it's a great app. I'd still love to see a cool app where I could do some cool things like the iphone has with color splash or even being able to morph the picture like you can with a web cam....like looking in a fun house mirror. Now that would be a very cool app I'd pay $ for!

Posted by dhelfinstine Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

"Works" on Storm (in compatibility mode) but not in regular mode. Can't move clipart or view text. This is the *only* program of this type that I could find! I really wish it would work!

Posted by Jleeblanch Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

I played around with it. It took a while to figure out the controls, that you had to use 'Enter' a lot to use the menus... I accidentally exited out of image projects i was attempting to make. Minor bugs here and there but i personally think this app has a lot of potential to be great!! And the app isn't bad now!! Great for adding text to pictures, adding glasses, wigs, and cutting/cropping photos/images...

Posted by dirtboll Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 808 days ago

kinda cool cant figure out how to save the "new" image it gives me the option to save changes but when i go back to my pics only the original is there

Posted by BusaB Monday, Nov 23, 2009 808 days ago

Doesnt work on my Tour running 5.0.

Posted by freightbrokers Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

i thins this might work cause there are so many people want to play with there pics especially teens

Freight Broker

Posted by oozietka Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

I have been looking for an app like this for my storm! I can't wait till you update this for a storm version!

Posted by oozietka Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

It does work for the storm, it just isn't that user friendly.
you have to use the storm like it has a trackball.

Posted by Oxy_Jon Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

Just d-loaded it; no complaints. For what it is, it's pretty decent and images saved right to my memory card w/o a problem. If you have enough space and would like to add to your growing plethora of bb apps, get it.

Posted by bigdaddy88 Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

Tried twice and never did get the e-mail link. No matter since the website says it doesn't offer for the Storm yet. But promises to.

Posted by rugbyua9 Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

tried it on my Storm 2... didnt work. It loaded but couldnt move anything.

Posted by BBpixie Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

BB 8900 running on OS 5.0.0.348 and I've tried the MiniPaint app. It's good, but pauses alot so I'd have to wait a few seconds to move again. Nice app tho.

Posted by rey_1178 Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

works on the tour

Posted by Michelle1221 Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

wished it worked on the Storm.

Posted by JasW Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

I can't tell from the MiniPaint website, but while there does appear to be a brightness icon, I don't see anything that would allow one to tweak the RGB settings of a picture. Given that BB Bold photos are waaaay too pallid blue -- with not enough red -- I would gladly pay for this app if it came out of beta with such a setting. I could live without the clip art.

Posted by Crashdmmy39 Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

I just dl'd the app and it's awesome. I can see myself having TONS of fun with this one. Most app's don't offer this type of interaction, for me, it's better than any game I have on my BB8330!

Posted by JGLADIATORS Monday, Nov 23, 2009 807 days ago

I tried downloadind this app thru the website and no results the link that was sent to me keeps givivng me an error message... I will try later

Posted by o4liberty Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009 806 days ago

Tried it on a storm 2 doesn't work!

Posted by laliux Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 783 days ago

Now (December 17, 2009) we have a beta release of MiniPaint exclusive for BlackBerry Storm.

Please visit our web site for more information.

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