Free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). 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.
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.
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
