KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program by KDE.
KolourPaint is designed for daily tasks like:
- Painting – drawing diagrams and “finger painting”.
- Manipulating Screenshots – acquiring and editing screenshots
- Image Manipulation – editing screenshots and photos; applying effects.
- Icon Editing – drawing clipart and logos with transparency.
KolourPaint is written in the C++ programming language.
Features include:
- 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.
Website: kolourpaint.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: KDE
License: BSD License
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