10 Facts About Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free and open source raster graphics editor geared towards young children.

Tux Paint is seen by many as a free software alternative to Kid Pix, a similar proprietary educational software product.

Tux Paint was initially created for the Linux operating system, as there was no suitable drawing program for young children available for Linux at that time.

Tux Paint stands apart from typical graphics editing software that it was designed to be usable by children as young as 3 years of age.

Tux Paint provides multiple levels of undo and redo, allowing accidental or unwanted changes to be removed while editing a picture.

Tux Paint was designed in such a way that the user does not need to understand the underlying operating system or how to deal with files.

When one saves a picture in Tux Paint, they do not need to provide a file name or browse for where to place it.

Tux Paint includes a number of 'filters' and 'special effects' which can be applied to a drawing, such as blurring, fading, and making the picture look as though it was drawn in chalk on pavement.

Tux Paint has been translated into numerous languages, and has support for the display of text in languages that use non-Latin character sets, such as Japanese, Greek, or Telugu.

Tux Paint includes its own form of input method support, allowing entry of non-Latin characters using the 'Text' tool.