Kolourpaint (Simple Graphic Editor)

The Kolourpaint application can be used to create simple graphics.

Purpose of Kolourpaint4

Kolourpaint is a simple Graphic editor (similar to MS Paint)...

Kolourpaint is similar to MS Paint (as opposed to gpaint) and is recommended it for simple graphical creating and editing... The main use of GIMP is for image retouching and editing, but is difficult to create simple images (eg. drawing a box, etc)...

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):

Using KolourPaint Application

Launching KolourPaint

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Elements of KolourPaint Application

There are several important areas in Kolourpaint:

• File Menu
• Main Toolbar
• Painting Toolbar
• Colour Selector

The Kolourpaint4 painting toolbar 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 Depending on the paint tool selected, another tool-bar may appear that sets the thickness of the line, or select if the object draws: Outline (no-fill) Draw the outline, and colours (fills-in) background colour Fills the object without an outline.

Painting toolbar in Kolourpaint for drawing objects.

Indicate type of outline / fill options Indicate line width

Drawing with KolourPaint

Here is a table containing common painting operations in Kolourpaint:

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Icon	Paint Operation	How to Use
	Draw line	After selecting this paint tool icon, move the mouse pointer into the drawing area, click and drag the mouse to create a line. Holding the SHIFT key while dragging the mouse forces a perfectly horizontal, vertical or diagonal line.
	Brush
	Draw (Pencil)
	Colour Fill (bucket)
	Colour Picker
	Eraser
	Colour Eraser
	Text
	Rectangle
	Rounded rectangle)
	Polygon
	Ellipse
	Connected Line
	Curve
	Selection (Retangular)
	Selection (Freeform)
	Selelction (Ellipse)

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 ]