Free drawing and design software that's great for kids and users of all ages
Free drawing and design software that's great for kids and users of all ages
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What is Tux Paint
Tux Paint is an application allowing users to create digital drawings and paintings. This app is aimed at children, and the interface is clearly designed with children in mind. The entertaining interface is both simple and colorful, and even young children should be able to use the app due to the simplicity of its design. Children can create pictures and save them to retrieve later. Tux Paint even has an autosave feature that can save the day when the app is accidentally closed too soon.
Tux Paint offers different settings that can configure the program to accommodate a child’s abilities and desires such as language, sounds and visual features of the drawing interface. Settings are controlled in an area that is separate from the drawing interface, so kids are unlikely to accidentally alter them when using the drawing and painting functions of the app.
There are many different features that users can take advantage of when creating their images. These features include stamps, magical designs, special effects, different colors and brush options. Children quickly catch on and learn to use all of the different features.
Recent changes to Tux Paint added on by developer Tux Paint Project have included the addition of 100 new stamps to try. The most recent version of the app is the 0.9.21 version that came out in March of 2010. The file size is 9.8 MB.
Pros
- Very enjoyable for kids
- Templates available for drawing and coloring
- Different drawing tools to choose from
- Pictures can be viewed in a slideshow
Cons
- App sometimes functions slowly and isn't always stable