Kolourpaint (Simple Graphic Editor)

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)...

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 ]