KolourPaint 1.2.2 review

KolourPaint is an easy-to-use paint program for KDE

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: KolourPaint Team

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KolourPaint is an easy-to-use paint program for KDE. Features include undo/redo, more than a dozen tools, selections, transparent image editing and zoom support (with an optional grid and thumbnail).

KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE.

It aims to be conceptually simple to understand; providing a level of functionality targeted towards the average user. KolourPaint is designed for daily tasks like:

Painting - drawing diagrams and "finger painting"
Image Manipulation - editing screenshots and photos; applying effects
Icon Editing - drawing clipart and logos with transparency

It's not an unusable and monolithic program where simple tasks like drawing lines become near impossible. Nor is it so simple that it lacks essential features like Undo/Redo.

The main difference between KolourPaint and most other "simple" UNIX paint programs is that KolourPaint actually works. See the Product Comparison page for details.

KolourPaint is opensource software written in C++ using the Qt and KDE libraries.

Here are some key features of "KolourPaint":
Undo/Redo Support (10-500 levels of history depending on memory usage)

Tools (single key shortcuts available for all tools)

Brush, Color Eraser, Color Picker, Connected Lines a.k.a. Polyline
Curve, Ellipse, Eraser, Flood Fill, Line, Pen, Polygon, Rectangle
Rounded Rectangle, Spraycan, Text

Selections (fully undo- and redo-able)

Rectangular, Elliptical, Free-Form shapes
Choice between Opaque and Transparent selections
Full Clipboard/Edit Menu support
Freehand resizeable

Colour Similarity means that you can fill regions in dithered images and photos

Transparency

Draw transparent icons and logos on a checkerboard background
All tools can draw in the "Transparent Colour"

Image Effects

Autocrop / Remove Internal Border
Balance (Brightness, Contrast, Gamma)
Clear, Emboss, Flatten, Flip, Invert (with choice of channels)
Reduce Colours, Reduce to Greyscale, Resize, Rotate
Scale, Set as Image (Crop), Skew, Smooth Scale, Soften & Sharpen

Close-up Editing

Zoom (from 0.01x to 16x)
Grid
Thumbnail

File Operations

Open/Save in all file formats provided by KImageIO (PNG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, PCX, TIFF,...) with preview
Print, Print Preview
Mail
Set as Wallpaper