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Announcing Tux Paint version 0.9.34

Numerous New Tools Added

(October 25, 2024; updated November 14, 2024) The Tux Paint Development Team is excited to announce the availability of Tux Paint version 0.9.34.

Rotation Tool and "Eraser" Fill Mode

A new "Rotate" tool can rotate a drawing at arbitrary angles; it can be found alongside the zoom and perspective tools. The "Fill" tool now includes an "Eraser" mode that replaces a contiguous area of color with the drawing's original background, exposing parts of the background color or template image.

A drawing rotated. "Eraser" mode of the "Fill" tool used to expose a background image

Crescent, Fractal, and Spray Paint Tools

The new "Crescent" tool allows drawing different shapes and sizes of crescents. Four different "Fractal" tools make it easy to create interesting shapes that shrink or grow and rotate as they repeat. The new "Spray Paint" tool simulates paint from a spray can or airbrush.

Various thickness of crescents may be drawn at any angle. A variety of fractal tools will recursively repeat what's being sketched. Spray paint onto a picture.

ASCII Art and Comic Dots Tools

A variety of "ASCII Art" tools can convert parts of a drawing to characters from a typewriter or a monochrome or color computer monitor. The "Comic Dots" tool simulates the "Ben Day Process" that was used to add shading and color to early comic books.

Convert your picture into typewriter symbols. Convert your picture to a 16-color classic computer text display. Add shading and color using a repeating pattern of dots.

Spiral, Concentric, and Tessellation Tools

The new "Spiral" and "Square Spiral" tools can draw round and rectangular spiral shapes of different thicknesses and radiuses.

Various kinds of round spirals. Various kinds of square spirals.

New "Concentric Circle" and "Concentric Square" tools draw concentric shapes.

Various concentric circles. Various concentric squares.

The "Tessellation Pointy" and "Tessellation Flat" tools draw repeating tessellation patterns using pointy- and flat-topped hexagons, respectively.

A tessellation made with pointy-topped hexagons. A tessellation made with flat-topped hexagons.

Other Improvements

  • Updated, higher quality Solar System stamps
  • New Brushes have been added to the "Paint" and "Lines" tools
  • New Templates, for starting out new drawings

Other improvements, bug fixes, and localization updates are also part of this release. Release notes for each component contain a complete list of changes:

A Free Download

Tux Paint is available for download, free of charge, from the project's website: https://tuxpaint.org/. Tux Paint is released under an open-source license. It does not utilize networking, and hence does not contain in-app advertising or in-app purchases, nor does it do any kind of user tracking.

Version 0.9.34 is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, Android, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, various Linux distributions (via Flatpak), various Linux distributions (via Snapcraft), Haiku, OpenBSD, and as source code.

For further information, visit https://tuxpaint.org/. To learn how to contribute to Tux Paint, visit: https://tuxpaint.org/help/. You can also follow Tux Paint on various social media platforms; see https://tuxpaint.org/contact/#social.

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This version of Tux Paint was made possible by Bill Kendrick & Pere Pujal i Carabantes; with localization updates by Pere Pujal i Carabantes, Hugo Carvalho, Jacques Chion, Cas Pascal, & Shin-ichi TOYAMA; and ports by Pere Pujal i Carabantes, Antoine Jacoutot, Mark Kim, Luc Schrijvers, Terrence Sheflin, TOYAMA Shin-ichi, Will Thompson, & Jintao Yang.

Trademark Notices: Apple, & macOS are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Snapcraft is a registered trademark of Canonical Ltd. Flatpak is a registered trademark of GNOME Foundation. Android is a registered trademark of Google LLC. Haiku is a registered trademark of Haiku, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Microsoft, & Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc.

Press Release by: Bill Kendrick <bill@newbreedsoftware.com>.


URL for this press release: https://tuxpaint.org/latest/tuxpaint-0.9.34-press-release.php



Did you know? Tux Paint is named after Tux the penguin, the mascot of the Linux operating system. "Tux" is short for tuxedo.