X-TuxPaint Fun drawing software for kids
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X-TuxPaint Description

X-TuxPaint was created as an easy-to-use painting application for children. X-TuxPaint is portable, Open Source, comes with a fun interface, cool sound effects and a cartoon mascot that guides children as they use the program. X-TuxPaint provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools that allows kids to be creative. Additional artwork can be downloaded and installed. Main features: Simple Interface: A number of useful drawing tools are made available. (See Drawing Tools, below.) 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. 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 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 Shape tool Draw various filled and unfilled polygonal shapes Rotate shapes (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 (See International Character Input, below) Labels may be moved or edited later (Coming soon) Magic' (special effects) tool Blind - pull window blinds down, or across, the picture (Coming soon) 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 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 yur picture Emboss - gives the image's edges highlights and shadows Fill - 'flood-fill' an area with a particular color 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 (Coming soon) Irregular Mosaic - turn your picture into a mosaic of shards (Coming soon) 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 (Coming soon) Picasso - a triplet of brushes that paint in unison Puzzle - shift parts of your picture around like it's a sliding puzzle (Coming soon) ROYGBIV Rainbow - draw a rainbow arc of seven solid colors (Coming soon) Rails - draw connecting train tracks Rain - add raindrops to your picture Rainbow - draw using a brush that paints in all colors in the rainbow Real Rainbow - draw a colorful arc based on a real photo of a rainbow Ripples - rippled waves over your image Rosette - three brushes that draw in a rosette pattern Shift - move the entire picture around Silhouette - turn parts of your picture into a silhouette Smudge - push the colors around as though smudging wet paint Snow Ball - cover your picture in snowballs Snow Flake - cover your picture in snowflakes Square Mosaic - create a pattern of squares (Coming soon) String V - draw V-shaped string art String corner - draw string art String edges - draw string art around the edges of your picture TV - make your picture look like it's on a television Tint - change the color of parts of the picture Toothpaste - paint with colorful gel Tornado - add a tornado funnel to your picture Wavelets - wiggle your picture up and down Waves - wiggle your picture side to side Wet Paint - draw with wet, smudgy paint Zoom - zoom your entire picture in or out (Coming soon) plus, programmers can easily and quickly create new 'Magic' tools using a plug-in interface! Eraser Undo Multiple levels of undo Undo actions can themselves be undone with the 'Redo' button Commands: Save Save a picture to the virtual 'picturebook' One-click save: No file browser dialogs or filename prompts are used If saving an opened picture, choose to save over it (like 'Save' in desktop programs), or save a new picture (like 'Save As') Open Open a previous drawing by selecting its thumbnail in a virtual 'picturebook' Delete previously-saved pictures Slides View a slideshow of multiple saved drawings Control the speed of playback; create class presentations or simple looping animations Go forward or back using the arrow keys or mouse Starters Various coloring-book-style images included Photographic scenes included, with foreground and background elements that you draw in between Vector graphics (Scalable Vector Graphics ("SVG")) supported Kid Pix templates ("KPX" files) supported (Coming soon) Print Print pictures on a printer

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