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.
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.
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.
Spiral, Concentric, and Tessellation Tools
The new "Spiral" and "Square Spiral" tools can draw round and rectangular spiral shapes of different thicknesses and radiuses.
New "Concentric Circle" and "Concentric Square" tools draw concentric shapes.
The "Tessellation Pointy" and "Tessellation Flat" tools draw repeating tessellation patterns using pointy- and flat-topped hexagons, respectively.
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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