Tux Paint
Drawing program designed for young children
Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages 3 and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program.
It provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative.
Features
A number of useful drawing tools are made available. (See 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 640×480, and can be displayed full-screen, to hide the computer’s underlying “desktop” interface. (It defaults to 800×600 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
Various colors available
Rubber stamp
Hundreds of photographic and cartoon stamps images are available
Parents/teachers can add more stamps and create categories
Stamps can have text (names, facts, etc.) and 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....and much much more
Tux Paint for Windows comes as two parts, the main program and the optional add-on 'stamps' collection. [13.5MB]
Mac and Linux downloads, Please visit site
Last Updated 06 July 2009
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7
Mac OS X: Requires Mac OS X v. 10.3 or later
Linux (No special OS requirements)
Download 9.8 MB
http://tuxpaint.org/download/