Tux Paint with inspirations from Mrs Graber

1. Tux Paint
Nellie Chew
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2. Tux Paint
• Alternative to Kid Pix
• Free open source paint
program with many of the
features
• Doesn't have the audio
recording features of Kid Pix,
but it does have excellent
stamps and imaging filters
• Download at :
http://www.tuxpaint.org/download
/windows/
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3. Install Tux Paint
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4. BUT first…
• By default, Tux Paint saves your files to:
– C:Users(your username)AppDataRoamingTuxPaintsaved
• Create a folder where you want to keep all your Tux Paint
drawings e.g. “My TuxPaint”
• Open program: “Configure Tux Paint”
• Change the “Alternative Save Directory” at Saving tab
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5. Tux Paint
• How to use it :
– http://www.tuxpaint.org/videos/
– Scroll to bottom of the page:
• Creating Tux Paint Templates ('Starters')
– Jennifer Graber explained how Tux Paint's 'Starter'
images work, uses them as templates for classes,
and how to create your own templates [Download]
– She used MS Paint to create and IrfanView (another
FREEware) to make the background transparent!
• Demo Screencast
– Chris Harvey created a video demonstrating some
features of Tux Paint [Link, Download]
– Scroll to bottom of page for Videos section
– Or search at YouTube or TeacherTube or Google Video!!
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6. Starter using Photoshop
• Size of canvas : 608 x 486 pixels (or 1024 wide by 768
tall pixels depending on how you install Tux Paint)
• Background : transparent
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7. Create a starter
• Use Brush (or Pencil) tool to draw
a “t” on the canvas.
– Note: Press & hold <Shift> to draw a
straight line
• Type “BLUE” on the left column
and “GREEN” on the right column
• Save the file as bluegreen.png
• Interlace: None
• Copy the file to Program Files> Tux
Paint> Data> Starters
• Launch Tux Paint, click New and
select your template~
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8. Starter too plain?
• Note the transparency is to allow all Tux Paint
drawings (e.g. Tux Paint stamps and brush) to be
shown
– i.e. your starter must NOT have background painted or
gigantic pictures/shapes that covered the whole canvas
• But what if that’s too plain?
– You can create a “background” picture or something that
Tux Paint CANNOT overwrite!
– Create another PNG document of same dimensions and you
may paint it, decorate it, draw on it, any way you like~
– Name this exactly the same as the original document but
add “-back” to the document name & copy to starter folder
– E.g. background pic of bluegreen.png is bluegreen-back.png
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9. Starter “front” & “-back”
bluegreen.png bluegreen-back.png
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10. Make your own Stamps~
• Use Photoshop
– Size of canvas : 256 x 256 pixels (can experiment here)
– Background : transparent
– Save as: PNG
• Copy the file to
Program Files>
Tux Paint>
Data> Stamps> [new folder]
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11. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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12. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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13. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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14. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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15. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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16. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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17. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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18. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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19. Inspiration from mrsgraber.com
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20. How about Tux Paint for Digital Storytelling?
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Storyboard_Artwork_Project
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22. Artist: Jonas and his Mother (1.5 years), Artist: Dominique Larribeau (57 years),
Vaerlose, Denmark 2005/01/11 Paris, France 2007/01/10
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