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Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages 3 and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. It provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative.

Once you've installed Tuxpaint, you may want to download the and install the rubber stamp images package to get access to a whole zoo of creature stamps.
Extra Requirements:none
Version: 0.9.19
Suitability:3-11

Inkscape is an easy to use vector graphics editor. Because Inkscape uses "vector" rather than "raster" graphics editing (which is mostly used by the GIMP), you can always go back later to reposition items and change font sizes, and you won't end up with blocky graphics when you enlarge your images. This makes Inkscape perfect for making logos, web 2.0 style images and create diagrams for reports and projects.

With capabilities similar to Illustrator, Fireworks, Freehand, CorelDraw, and Xara X; Inkscape offers professional tools and features. Inkscape uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and can save to multiple vector-based formats, this means you can work on things in Inkscape and then transfer them to other programs at school. The program offers lots of cool tools, including layers, in-built shapes and complicated shading effects. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG, you you can include your images in what ever program you need.

Extra Requirements:none
Version: 0.46
Suitability:All

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is suitable for those wanting to edit digital photographs, design and export graphics for the web, convert images from one file format to another, or even produce complex high-resolution graphics for print. The GIMP features a number of paint and photo editing tools found in other professional image editors, it has support for loading and saving in formats compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Paintshop Pro amongst others, and much much more!

If you install the GIMP Animation Package, you can then use GIMP to create animated GIF images.

The GIMP is a feature-packed program which may seem a little scary at first. We suggest looking at the manual and tutorials available from the Gimp web site.

The GIMP uses the GTK+ library which is also available on the OpenDisc. The GIMP will not work without GTK+, so make sure to install GTK+ before installing the GIMP. Then click top right to get started!

Extra Requirements:GTK+
Version: 2.4.5
Suitability:All

Blender can make advanced 3D graphics allowing you to make models and animations. If you are really good you can even make things as stunning as the latest Hollywood movies! It is the only 3D creation program which allows the artist to model, texture, animate, render, and export the finished product in a package less than 10 MB (plus it's free!). Blender natively exports to a multitude of 3D formats such as VRML, Cal3d, AC3D allowing you to work with other high quality 3D programs.

With a new user interface and the release of the Blender User's guide, using Blender is easier than ever. Even so, 3D modeling remains a very hard computing task, with the result that Blender is a difficult application to get good at. To help you start designing animations and programming games, we've included a tutorial on using Blender.

Extra Requirements:none
Version: 2.45
Suitability:14+