Tux Paint for Mac

October, 28th 2024 - 77.43 MB - Open Source

Latest Version

Tux Paint 0.9.34 LATEST
Review by

Sophia Jones
Operating System

Mac OS X 10.10 or later
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Author / Product

New Breed Software / External Link
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TuxPaint-0.9.34.dmg
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Tux Paint for Mac is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). Tux Paint for macOS 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.

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.

Features and Highlights

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
Color picker, for choosing colors from a drawing (New in 0.9.23)
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
Uses Paint Brush's brushes
'Rubberband' shows where the line will be drawn as you move the mouse
Draw various filled and unfilled polygonal shapes
Rotate shapes (this feature can be disabled for younger children)
Come with various fonts
Bold, italic and size can be changed
Parents/teachers can add more fonts
Supports numerous languages
Labels may be moved or edited later
Print pictures on a printer

"Magic" (Tux Paint special effects)

Blind - pull window blinds down, or across, the picture
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
Irregular Mosaic - turn your picture into a mosaic of shards
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
Picasso - a triplet of brushes that paint in unison
Puzzle - shift parts of your picture around like it's a sliding puzzle
ROYGBIV Rainbow - draw a rainbow arc of seven solid colors
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
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

Also Available: Download Tux Paint for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Numerous New Tools Added:
Rotation Tool and "Eraser" Fill Mode:
- A new "Rotate" tool can rotate a drawing at arbitrary angles; it can be found alongside the zoom and perspective tools. The "Fill" tool now includes an "Eraser" mode that replaces a contiguous area of color with the drawing's original background, exposing parts of the background color or template image.

Crescent, Fractal, and Spray Paint Tools:
- The new "Crescent" tool allows drawing different shapes and sizes of crescents. Four different "Fractal" tools make it easy to create interesting shapes that shrink or grow and rotate as they repeat. The new "Spray Paint" tool simulates paint from a spray can or airbrush.

ASCII Art and Comic Dots Tools:
- A variety of "ASCII Art" tools can convert parts of a drawing to characters from a typewriter or a monochrome or color computer monitor. The "Comic Dots" tool simulates the "Ben Day Process" that was used to add shading and color to early comic books.

Spiral, Concentric, and Tessellation Tools:
- The new "Spiral" and "Square Spiral" tools can draw round and rectangular spiral shapes of different thicknesses and radiuses.
- New "Concentric Circle" and "Concentric Square" tools draw concentric shapes.
- The "Tessellation Pointy" and "Tessellation Flat" tools draw repeating tessellation patterns using pointy- and flat-topped hexagons, respectively.

Other Improvements:
- Updated, higher quality Solar System stamps
- New Brushes have been added to the "Paint" and "Lines" tools
- New Templates, for starting out new drawings