2 KolourPaint Version 4.0.0 BETA (KDE 4.0.0 Release Frozen 2007-10-26)
3 http://www.kolourpaint.org/
5 Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Clarence Dang <dang@kde.org>
8 For licensing and warranty information, read COPYING.
9 For known problems with this release of KolourPaint, read BUGS.
10 For what changes have been made, read NEWS.
11 For developer information, checkout branches/kolourpaint/control/.
12 For general information, read this file (README):
15 1. What is KolourPaint?
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18 KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE.
20 It aims to be conceptually simple to understand; providing a level of
21 functionality targeted towards the average user. It's designed for daily
24 * Painting - drawing diagrams and "finger painting"
25 * Image Manipulation - editing screenshots and photos; applying effects
26 * Icon Editing - drawing clipart and logos with transparency
28 It's not an unusable and monolithic program where simple tasks like drawing
29 lines become near impossible. Nor is it so simple that it lacks essential
30 features like Undo/Redo.
32 KolourPaint is opensource software written in C++ using the Qt and KDE
39 * Undo/Redo Support (10-500 levels of history depending on memory usage)
41 * Tools (single key shortcuts available for all tools)
42 - Brush, Color Eraser, Color Picker, Connected Lines a.k.a. Polyline
43 - Curve, Ellipse, Eraser, Flood Fill, Line, Pen, Polygon, Rectangle
44 - Rounded Rectangle, Spraycan, Text, Zoom
46 * Selections (fully undo- and redo-able)
47 - Rectangular, Elliptical, Free-Form shapes
48 - Choice between Opaque and Transparent selections
49 - Full Clipboard/Edit Menu support
52 * Configurable Color Palette
54 * Color Similarity means that you can fill regions in dithered images and
58 - Draw transparent icons and logos on a checkerboard background
59 - All tools can draw in the "Transparent Color"
62 - Autocrop / Remove Internal Border
63 - Balance (Brightness, Contrast, Gamma)
64 - Clear, Emboss, Flatten, Flip, Histogram Equalizer
65 - Hue, Saturation, Value
66 - Invert (with choice of channels)
67 - Reduce Colors, Reduce to Grayscale, Resize, Rotate
68 - Scale, Set as Image (Crop), Skew, Smooth Scale, Soften & Sharpen
71 - Zoom (from 0.01x to 16x)
76 - Open/Save in all file formats provided by KImageIO
77 (PNG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, PCX, TIFF,...) with preview
78 - Print, Print Preview
83 3. Updates & More Information
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86 Visit: http://www.kolourpaint.org/
92 Visit: http://www.kolourpaint.org/
94 If you have any questions about compiling, installing or using KolourPaint,
95 don't be afraid to contact us. We try to support all versions of
96 KolourPaint and even issues with 3rd party binary packages.
102 Please send bug reports and feature requests to http://bugs.kde.org/.
103 Don't hesitate to report bugs nor hesitate to send us your wishes -- it
104 provides valuable feedback that will help to improve future versions of
105 KolourPaint and you will not receive flames for reporting duplicates.