KolourPaint is a free

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

, raster graphics editor

Raster graphics editor

A raster graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular “bitmap” or “raster” formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF....

 for the KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but has some additional features such as support for transparency.

It aims to be conceptually simple to understand, providing a level of functionality targeted towards the average user. KolourPaint is designed for daily tasks such as:

• Painting - drawing diagrams and "finger painting"
• Image Manipulation - editing screenshots and photos; applying effects
• Icon Editing - drawing clipart and logos with transparency

In version 3.3 of KDE, KolourPaint replaced KPaint as the standard simple painting application. It is shipped as part of the kdegraphics

Kdegraphics

kdegraphics is a KDE software package to work with graphics.- List of software :* Gwenview : an image viewer.* kamera : digital camera io_slave for Konqueror.* kfile-plugins : provide meta information for graphic files....

 package.

KolourPaint can also run in desktop environments other than KDE, such as Xfce

Xfce

Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD – though recent compatibility issues have arisen with regard to BSD Unix platforms...

 or GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

, as well as window managers like Fluxbox

Fluxbox

Fluxbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, which started as a fork of Blackbox 0.61.1, with the same aim to be lightweight. Its user interface has only a taskbar, a pop-up menu accessible by right-clicking on the desktop, and minimal support for graphical icons...

. The prerequisite packages can be installed automatically. However, bug reports can only be filed if you are using KDE.

KolourPaint has a port to Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 as part of the KDE on Windows Initiative.

See also

• List of raster graphics editors
• Comparison of raster graphics editors
  Comparison of raster graphics editors
  - List :- General information :Basic general information about the editors: creator/company, license etc.- Operating system support :The operating systems on which the editors can run natively , meaning which operating systems have which editors specifically coded for them - List :- General...
  
  
• Windows Paint

External links

• The Official KolourPaint Homepage