Category:	Education
Price:	Free
Popularity:	Low
Version String:	0.0.24 (2024-07-18)
Release Date:	2024-07-19
Architecture:	Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.8.0
Vendor Name:	Tux Paint Development Team
Homepage:	Unknown Homepage

Description:

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). Tux Paint is used in schools around the world as a computer literacy drawing activity. 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.


Features


Multi-Platform

Tux Paint works on macOS (10.10 Yosemite and up), Windows (Windows XP through Windows 10), Linux, Android, and other systems. An unofficial Apple iOS (iPhone/iPad) version is also available.


Simple Interface

■ A number of useful drawing tools are made available.

■ The drawing canvas is a fixed size, so the user doesn't need to worry about 'pixels' or 'inches' when making a new picture.

■ The entire program fits on a screen as small as 640x480, and can be displayed full-screen, to hide the computer's underlying 'desktop' interface. (It defaults to 800x600 mode, but can run at larger sizes and in portrait or landscape mode, as well.)

■ 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.

■ Images can be exported from Tux Paint (e.g., to your "Pictures" folder).


Entertaining Interface

■ 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.


Drawing Tools

■ 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
• Color picker, for choosing colors from a drawing

■ Rubber stamp
• Hundreds of photographic and cartoon stamps images are available
• Parents/teachers can add more stamps and create categories
• Stamps can have descriptive text and sound samples (names, facts, etc.) and/or sound effects assigned to them
• Stamps can be resized, flipped and mirrored
• 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

■ Fill
• 'Flood-fill' an area with a particular color
• Recently moved from 'Magic Tools' to the main toolbar

■ Shape tool
• Draw various filled and unfilled polygonal shapes
• Rotate shapes (this feature can be disabled for younger children)
• Draw shapes from the center, or from a corner (this feature can be disabled for younger children)

■ Text and Label tools
• Come with various fonts
• Bold, italic and size can be changed
• Parents/teachers can add more fonts
• Supports numerous languages
• Labels may be moved or edited later

■ Magic' (special effects) tool
• Blind - pull window blinds down, or across, the picture
• Blocks - turn parts of the picture 'blocky'
• Blur - blur parts of the picture using the mouse
• Bricks - paint realistic large or small brick patterns
• Calligraphy - a smooth brush that changes thickness depending on how quickly you stroke
• Cartoon - make parts of the picture look like a cartoon
• Chalk - make parts of the picture look like a chalk drawing
• Checkerboard - fill the picture with a checkerboard pattern (Coming soon)
• Clone - clone parts of the picture; copy by painting (Coming soon)
• Color & White - turn the picture monotone
• Color Shift - Jumble the colors of the picture
• Confetti - Throw confetti over your picture
• Darken - darken the colors of parts of the picture
• Distortion - slightly alters the position of the picture under the brush
• Drip - make parts of the picture look like it's dripping away
• Edges - outline the edges of shapes in your picture
• Emboss - gives the image's edges highlights and shadows
• Fisheye - view parts of your picture through a fish-eye lense
• Flip - flip the image vertically
• Flower - draws curvy-stalked flowers
• Foam - paints foamy bubbles that grow as you move the mouse
• Fold - fold down the corners of your picture
• Glass Tile - see your drawing through glass tiles
• Grass - paint realistic clumps of grass on the screen and into the distance
• Hexagon Mosaic - create a pattern of hexagons
• Irregular Mosaic - turn your picture into a mosaic of shards
• Kaleidoscope - four symmetric brushes
• Light - draw beams of bright light on your picture
• Lighten - fade the colors of parts of the picture
• Metal Paint - paints shiny metallic colors
• Mirror - flip the image horizontally
• Mosaic - make your picture into a mosaic of colors
• Negative - invert the colors of parts of the picture
• Noise - add random noise to your picture
• Perspective - bend your picture to view it from different perspectives
• Picasso - a triplet of brushes that paint in unison

■ And more…