Kolourpaint (Simple Graphic Editor)

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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

To be completed...

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.

Drawing with KolourPaint

Here is a table containing common painting operations in Kolourpaint:

Icon Paint Operation How to Use
Draw line
Brush
Draw (Pencil)
Colour Fill (bucket)
Eraser
Colour Eraser
Text
Rectangle (also rounded rectangle)
Polygon
Ellipse
Connected Line
Curve


Additional Resources

Documentation

Kolourpaint Handbood: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdegraphics/kolourpaint/index.html

Online Tutorials

Kolourpaint4 Tutorials (YouTube):