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diff --git a/kolourpaint/README b/kolourpaint/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b045e3b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/kolourpaint/README @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ + +KolourPaint Version 1.4.9_relight (KDE 3.5.9 Release Frozen ???) +http://www.kolourpaint.org/ + +Copyright (c) 2003,2004,2005,2006 Clarence Dang <dang@kde.org> + + +For licensing and warranty information, read COPYING. +For known problems with this release of KolourPaint, read BUGS. +For what changes have been made, read NEWS. +For developer information, checkout branches/kolourpaint/control/. +For general information, read this file (README): + + +1. What is KolourPaint? +======================= + +KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE. + +It aims to be conceptually simple to understand; providing a level of +functionality targeted towards the average user. It's designed for daily +tasks like: + +* Painting - drawing diagrams and "finger painting" +* Image Manipulation - editing screenshots and photos; applying effects +* Icon Editing - drawing clipart and logos with transparency + +It's not an unusable and monolithic program where simple tasks like drawing +lines become near impossible. Nor is it so simple that it lacks essential +features like Undo/Redo. + +KolourPaint is opensource software written in C++ using the Qt and KDE +libraries. + + +2. Features +=========== + +* Undo/Redo Support (10-500 levels of history depending on memory usage) + +* Tools (single key shortcuts available for all tools) + - Brush, Color Eraser, Color Picker, Connected Lines a.k.a. Polyline + - Curve, Ellipse, Eraser, Flood Fill, Line, Pen, Polygon, Rectangle + - Rounded Rectangle, Spraycan, Text + +* Selections (fully undo- and redo-able) + - Rectangular, Elliptical, Free-Form shapes + - Choice between Opaque and Transparent selections + - Full Clipboard/Edit Menu support + - Freehand resizeable + +* Colour Similarity means that you can fill regions in dithered images and + photos + +* Transparency + - Draw transparent icons and logos on a checkerboard background + - All tools can draw in the "Transparent Colour" + +* Image Effects + - Autocrop / Remove Internal Border + - Balance (Brightness, Contrast, Gamma) + - Clear, Emboss, Flatten, Flip, Invert (with choice of channels) + - Reduce Colours, Reduce to Greyscale, Resize, Rotate + - Scale, Set as Image (Crop), Skew, Smooth Scale, Soften & Sharpen + +* Close-up Editing + - Zoom (from 0.01x to 16x) + - Grid + - Thumbnail + +* File Operations + - Open/Save in all file formats provided by KImageIO + (PNG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, PCX, TIFF,...) with preview + - Print, Print Preview + - Mail + - Set as Wallpaper + + +3. Updates & More Information +============================= + +Visit: http://www.kolourpaint.org/ + + +4. Support +========== + +Visit: http://www.kolourpaint.org/ + +If you have any questions about compiling, installing or using KolourPaint, +don't be afraid to contact us. We try to support all versions of +KolourPaint and even issues with 3rd party binary packages. + + +5. Feedback +=========== + +Please send bug reports and feature requests to http://bugs.kde.org/. +Don't hesitate to report bugs nor hesitate to send us your wishes - it +provides valuable feedback that will help to improve future versions of +KolourPaint and you will not receive flames for reporting duplicates. + |