1. Tux Paint Stamps is an addition to the fun, free painting software that has conquers hearts and minds since its release. Tux Paint is a free drawing and painting programme, sophisticated enough for older, skilled users but simple and easy enough for beginners to try out, getting to grips with digital art and using programmes all at once.
2. Tux paint download - Enable your children to take their first steps in digital drawing. Tux Paint is a drawing program with simple tools and is suitable for children from 3 years of age. It is an Open Source program, regularly updated and available for.

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Description

Tux Paint is a painting and drawing application for Windows PC. Tux Paint is compatible with almost every version of Windows for PC including Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME. This is ideal if a family's children are using an older computer for games and school work. Tux Paint is very kid-friendly, although grownups like it too. Feb 09, 2021 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.

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.

To learn more: FSF Directory, Tux Paint Official Website

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.

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.

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.

About Tux Paint

If you want to provide your child with a little bit of fun and perhaps introduce them to using a PC, then Tux Paint 0.9.25 is the perfect program. Tux Paint is designed so that children can easily create images without much complication. For parents, this also provides an alternative to messy paints and magic markers. This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system/platform without restrictions. Tux Paint is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.

We tested the file tuxpaint-0.9.24-win32-installer.exe with 24 antivirus programs and it turned out 100% clean. It's good practice to test any downloads from the Internet with trustworthy antivirus software.

Older versions of Windows often have trouble running modern software and thus Tux Paint may run into errors if you're running something like Windows XP. Conversely, much older software that hasn't been updated in years may run into errors while running on newer operating systems like Windows 10. You can always try running older programs in compatibility mode.

Officially supported operating systems include Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

The current version of Tux Paint is 0.9.25 and is the latest version since we last checked. This is the full offline installer setup file for PC. This site has hosted other versions of it in the past such as 0.9.24, 0.9.23, 0.9.22 and 0.9.21. At the moment, only the latest version is available.

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Tux Paint supports over 3 common image formats including EPS, ORF and RAW.

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