Digital Painting

Tux Paint:

Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children. It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot which help to guide children as they use the program .Choose a Tool from the options on the left side of the screen. Then, make choices from the right side of the screen. Directions are provided at the bottom of the screen.

Title Screen:

When Tux Paint first loads, a title credits screen will appear. Once loading is complete, press a key or click on the mouse to continue(Or, after about 30 seconds, the title screen(will go away automatically).

Main Screen

The main screen is divided into following sections:

Left Side: Toolbar

This toolbar has the control options to draw and to edit images

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Middle: Drawing Canvas

This is the largest part of the screen dedicated to draw and edit images.

Right Side: Selector

When a tool is selected from the left side tool bar, the right side bar will display the options associated with the specific tool

.E.g.- When the line tool is selected, the right side bar shows the various lines available. When the shape tool is selected, different shape options can be seen on the right side.

Lower: Colours

A palette of available colours is shown near the bottom of the screen.

Bottom: Help Area

At the very bottom of the screen,Tux,the Linux Penguin, provides tips and other information while you draw

Tools Icons

ü The Paint Brush tool lets you draw freehand, using various brushes (chosen in the Selector on the right) and colors.

ü The Stamp tool is like a set of rubber stamps or stickers(images).

ü Use the Left and Right arrows to cycle through the collections.

ü This tool is used to draw lines.

ü This tool lets you draw some simple filled, and un-filled shapes.

Shortcut Keys

ü Tool Name Keyboard Shortcut Key

Tool Name	Keyboard Shortcut Key
New	Ctrl + N
Open	Ctrl + O
Save	Ctrl + S
Print	Ctrl + P
Quit	Esc
Undo	Ctrl + Z
Redo	Ctrl + Y

Tux Math:

Tux Math is an open source arcade – style video game for learning arithmetic. The main goal is to make learning effective and fun.

Title Screen

Math Command Training Academy: choose this to go to a list of over fifty prepared lessons, starting with simple typing of single digit numbers, and progressing to multiplication and division involving negatives and "missing number" questions (e.g. "-17 × ? = 119"). The player wins if the question list is completed successfully. Successfully completed lessons are indicated with a flashing gold star.

Play Arcade Game: This option can be used to select and play one of the four open-ended “arcade style” games, meaning the game gets faster and faster as long as the player can keep up, with the goal to get the highest score possible.

Options

• Space Cadet - simple addition.

• Scout - addition and subtraction to ten.

• Ranger - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to ten.

• Ace - all four operations with operands to 20, including negative numbers and"missing number" type questions.

Play Custom Game: This option can be used to play a game based on the config file in the player’s home directory.

More Options: These options have "Demo" mode as well as credits and project information.