Tux Paint (paint program for kids)

Category: Others

Product's Description:

Tux Paint is drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.

Product's Features:

• The drawing canvas is a fixed size, so the user doesn't need to worry about 'pixels' or 'inches' when making a new picture.
• Loading and saving of images is done using thumbnails, so no knowledge of the underlying operating system's filesystem structure is needed. Even filenames are unnecessary.
• Fun sound effects are played when tools are selected and used.
• A cartoon version of Tux, the Linux penguin, appears at the bottom to give tips, hints and information.
• Paint brush: Various brushes available, Parents/teachers can add more brushes, Brushes can be animated, Brushes can change shape depending on the direction they're drawn, Alternate color palettes can be created and used.
• Rubber stamp: Hundreds of photographic and cartoon stamps images are available, Stamps can have descriptive text and sound samples (names, facts, etc.) and/or sound effects assigned to them, Raster bitmaps (Portable Network Graphics ("PNG")) with full-color and alpha transparency (32bpp RGBA) supported, Vector graphics (Scalable Vector Graphics ("SVG")) supported.
• Line tool: Uses Paint Brush's brushes, 'Rubberband' shows where the line will be drawn as you move the mouse.
• Shape tool: Draw various filled and unfilled polygonal shapes, Rotate shapes (this feature can be disabled for younger children).
• Text tool: Parents/teachers can add more fonts, Supports numerous languages.
• Available in more than 80 languanges.
  
• 'Magic' (special effects) tool: Blocks (turn parts of the picture 'blocky'), Bricks, Calligraphy, Cartoon, Chalk, Distortion, Emboss, Flower, Glass, Tile, Metal, Paint, Rainbow, Smudge, and more...

Product's Info:
Tux Paint
version 0.9.20
Size: 9,518 MB (windows)

Platform:
Windows: 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista
Mac OS X: version 10.3.9 or later
Linux

Requirement:

Disk space for Full installation: Windows (45 MB), Mac OS X (45 MB), Linux (45 MB).
Minimum CPU: Windows (200 MHz Pentium), Mac OS X (233 MHz G3), Linux (200 MHz Pentium, 233 MHz G3, etc).
Monitor: 640×480 or higher; 800x600 recommended.
Video card: Capable of 640x480, 16bpp (thousands of colors) or better; 1024x768 or better, 24bpp recommended.
Mouse: One button mouse or better; scrollwheel supported, but not required; (any device that acts as a mouse is supported, e.g.: touchscreen, drawing tablet, tablet PC, trackball, lightpen, etc.).
Memory (RAM) for default resolution (800x600): Windows (Approx. 40MB free), Mac OS X (16MB free), Linux (Approx. 33MB free).

Download:
Windows XP/2000/Vista or a stand-alone ZIP-file version

Windows 95/98/ME or a ZIP-file version

Mac OS X

Debian GNU/Linux Packages

Ubuntu Linux Packages

RPM Linus Packages

Slackware Linux Packages

OLPC XO-1 Activity

FreeBSD Packages

NetBSD Packages

Zaurus Packages

Nokia 770/800 Packages

BeOS

OS/2