Kolourpaint (Simple Graphic Editor)
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Purpose of Kolourpaint4
Kolourpaint is a simple Graphic editor (similar to MS Paint)... The main use of GIMP is for image retouching and editing, but is difficult to create simple images (eg. drawing a box, etc)...
Kolourpaint is similar to MS Paint (as opposed to gpaint) and is recommended it for simple graphical creating and editing...
The Kolourpaint4 application has the following features:
- Select tools
- Choose foreground, background colour
- Draw line (various line widths, shift drag works same as in MS Paint)
- Brush
- Draw (Pencil)
- Colour Fill (bucket)
- Eraser
- Colour Eraser
- Text
- Rectangle (also rounded rectangle)
- Polygon
- Ellipse
- Connected Line
- Curve
YouTube Video
- If you want to see the visual steps to "Grabbing Student Work", here is a link to a customized YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrU4gTWEo0
Written Instructions
- Below are the written instructions (in case you prefer to have a printout of these procedures):
Additional Resources
Documentation
Kolourpaint Handbood: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdegraphics/kolourpaint/index.html
Online Tutorials
Kolourpaint4 Tutorials (YouTube):
- Interesting Features of Kolourpaint: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCMhnivjWoQ ]
- How to Draw a Pear: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2giJyyGCBJs ]
- Reduce Picture Size: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um_6tYOLYhQ ]
