Tux Paint

This is useful when you have young children sign on a computer or suitable other device. It goes with home and education. A different drawing environment is more suitable for accurate illustrations with an extensive layer structure; the design is precisely aimed at simple creative operation.

Set the language and appropriate window size. First show how to save a drawing and open it again.

Computer requirements

Windows 8, 10 or 11; macOS 10.9 or newer; Linux

Preferably let a child work with their own limited account. Check which images or stamps you add and where drawings are stored. A drawing may contain a name, school or other personal information. Share such files consciously instead of automatically revealing an entire folder.

Additional stamp collections may be available separately. For accurate adult illustration or photo editing, other software is more suitable.

Before working independently or printing, shut down and save, check to match the situation. Additional stamps may be available separately. Choose material that matches age and language. Create a spare of drawings you want to keep when replacing a device.

Tux Paint is suitable if you want children to draw digitally in an easily accessible way. The environment offers clear drawing tools, stamps and playful effects. The value is in self-trying and making. You don't have to judge a drawing by how professional it looks; it's about dealing with tools, shapes and own ideas.

Choose Tux Paint if discovering and making something independently is the goal. A limited start set with brushes and colors can give more grip than all effects at the same time. See if saving and finding are understandable, so that a child can continue to work later. For a technically accurate illustration, other functions are required, but this does not have to be a problem in the case of an initial drawing environment.