Dec 29, 2019 Tux Paint is a Imaging and Digital Photo application like Mastercam, ACDSee Editor, and KeyShot from New Breed Software. It has a simple and basic user interface, and most importantly, it is free to download. Tux Paint is an efficient software that is recommended by many Windows PC users. Classic Microsoft Paint should already be on your Windows PC. In the search box next to Start on the taskbar, type paint and then select Paint from the list of results. If you have the latest version of Windows 10 and want to try something new, open Paint 3D featuring new 2D. Tux Paint website Tux Paint Docs Download Latest Version tuxpaint-0.9.25-windows-x8664-installer.exe (26.1 MB) Get Updates. Get project updates, sponsored content. Tux Paint's interface is very intuitive and is designed in a cartoon style, so your children will love it. Everything they can use is show in the interface, so they can choose the tool they are going to use thanks to the images shown, pencils, colors, brushes.
Description
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Tux Paint is a cross-platform drawing program created specifically for children. Little kids as young as 3 years old have no difficulty in finding their way around its clear and intuitive interface which features large buttons identified by a label as well as an icon so thatthe child can easily recognize them. At the center of the screen thereis a white canvas for the child to draw making use of a wide variety oftools and paint brushes. As a start, the child can load outlined pictures to be colored, as in a coloring-book.
The program includes all of the most common drawing tools such as lines and brushes for free-hand drawing and coloring, geometric shapes, sizing, an eraser, the 'Redo' and 'Undo' options,plus sound that plays while painting and a special tool called 'Magic' for impressive effects: rainbow, glitter, chalk, blur, flip, and more.
Along with the Magic tool, the other popular feature among children is 'Stamp,' which contains loads of pictures and clip art that can be 'stamped' on the canvas, such as plants and flowers, animals, holidayart, planets, and much more. Many of these stamps are provided with theprogram out of the box, and others are available as separate collections to be installed. Many users contribute their own art work to be includedas stamps in the program; here we are going to see an example ofhow this was done by a group of children from a school in India, thusputting into practice the software freedom that the program guarantees.
Tux Paint is available in more than 80 languages, including minorityand right-to-left languages. Such a large number of languages is theresult of contributions made by users from all over the world.
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Who's Using It and How
Comments by home usersand stories from schoolsusing Tux Paint are presented in the official website. There are reports that the program is one of the most helpful tools for children to getacquainted with basic computer graphic skills while providing a highlyattractive environment for them. However, the distinctive feature that makes Tux Paint preferable to similar drawing software for kids isthe fact that it is Free Software, meaning it comes with no restrictions of any sort and the user is granted a series of freedoms. For example, one of the freedoms is that the user is allowed to install the program in as many work stations as needed, which is specially important for schools.
Another significant freedom that Free Software guarantees is the freedom to modify the program so as to adapt it to the user's needs and to redistribute copies of the modified version. It is thanks to thisfreedom that Tux Paint is available in so many languages, includingthose spoken by minority groups. In fact, translations into less widelyspoken languages have been provided by the users themselves. This is sobecause most of the time, companies whose business consists ofdevelopment of nonfree software adopt policies on the basis of marketsize: if the market is not large enough to ensure profit, they aregenerally reluctant to invest on it.
Listen to a student pronounce the name of the Anthoorium flower in Malayalam.
Listen to a student pronounce the name of the Appooppan Thaady flower in Malayalam.
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A good example of how software freedom can be applied in Tux Paint isthe work done by 11 and 12 years old students from theVHSS Irimpanamschool in the State of Kerala, in India. The work consisted in adding aseries of stamps to the program, from photographs taken by the students themselves. They took pictures of autochthonous flowers and processed the digital images with the free libre GNU Image Manipulation ProgramGIMP, adding alsothe name of each flower in English and in Malayalam, the local language.As Tux Paint has a sound function, students also recorded with their ownvoices the name of the flowers in Malayalam, so when one of these flowers is chosen to be stamped onto the canvas, the user will see and hear the name of the flower in Malayalam. Watch and download the video and the SubRip subtitles.
An additional useful activity done by this school by applying thefreedom to modify the program, was the translation of the Tux Paintinterface into Malayalam, the language spoken in the state of Kerala.
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Why
The freedom to modify the program is an important resource that was used by the school to reach beyond the scope of teaching basic computer graphical skills or entertaining children. It was used to show them that information technology is not something to be subjected to, not something that should be imposed upon the user, but an instrument to serve users according to their requirements.
The freedom to install the program in all computers in the Lab wasalso important, since the school has limited economical resources toinvest in licenses. By distributing copies of the original and modifiedversion of the program to the students, the school providedassistance to families undergoing economic hardship.
Results
Adding stamps to Tux Paint was an exciting and enriching experiencefor the students. First, they analyzed how the program works and discovered the mechanism that the program uses for the implementation of stamps. Then they learned how this particular characteristic of the program permitted the addition of stamps and how to do it. They also acquired a deeper knowledge of GIMP during the manipulation of the images. The whole process gave them an opportunity not only to developnew technical abilities, but also to identify and appreciate local flora. Most importantly, they learned that anyone, even non programmers or children, can actually influence and improve information technology when software freedom is granted.
Credits
Images of the Tux Paint interface in Malayalam with native flowers, of the Appooppan Thaady and Anthoorium flowers, as well as both soundfiles are courtesy of the Vocational Higher Secondary School Irimpanamand are licensed under CC-BY-SA, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.
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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.(See the full list of features.)
December 30, 2020 -Tux Paint 0.9.25 is now available, and introduces animated GIF slideshow export and more. See the press release, and download it for various versions of Windows, macOS, Android, Haiku, and RPM-based Linux systems.
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The latest version of Tux Paint runs on a variety of platforms, including Windows (XP and later), macOS (10.10 and later), Linux, Android, Haiku, and more. Older versions of Tux Paint have been released for a variety of other platforms, as well.
How Much Does It Cost?
Tux Paint is free, Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.It is developed by volunteers around the world. We work on it as a labor of love, with the hopes that people will find it useful, and in turn share it with their own friends and family.
Because Tux Paint (and other open source software) is free of cost and not limited in any way, a school can use it today, without waiting for procurement or a budget!
Download Tux Paint today, and enjoy!
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