Tux Paint

Tux Paint
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Runs on:	Android iOS Linux Mac OS Windows
Imports:	.PNG
Exports:	.PNG

Tux Paint is a child-friendly painting program with a fun interface, similar to Kid Pix.

One of the tool classifications is 'magic' :D

Configuration

• http://www.tuxpaint.org/docs/en/html/OPTIONS.html

Palette

You can load custom colour palettes. They are a plain-text file that specifies the colours by sets of numbers representing the RGB channels, or hexadecimal (like in HTML/CSS). You can include more or less that the default palettes 17 colours :)

To load the palette either use the argument --colorfile=[file path], or use the configuration utility (which you may need to install separately).

Creating with Glimpse

You can export palettes from Glimpse either as a .TXT file, which looks like:

#000000
#0000aa
#00aa00
#00aaaa
#aa0000
#aa00aa
#aa5500
#aaaaaa
#555555
#5555ff
#55ff55
#55ffff
#ff5555
#ff55ff
#ffff55
#ffffff

But you'll have to add an empty line at the bottom, otherwise the last colour won't be read.

or as a .GPL, which looks like:

GIMP Palette
Name: Linux 16
Columns: 8
#
  0   0   0
  0   0 170
  0 170   0
  0 170 170
170   0   0
170   0 170
170  85   0
170 170 170
 85  85  85
 85  85 255
 85 255  85
 85 255 255
255  85  85
255  85 255
255 255  85
255 255 255

and works if you cut out the stuff up-to-and-including the #, and add a blank line at the end.

See Also

• tuxpaint.org
• An open palette: Tux Paint's Bill Kendrick - Interview