KolourPaint

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Drawing tools

It supports lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals, polygons, curves and text.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Editing tools

It includes a color picker, selections, rotation, monochrome conversion and other advanced effects.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Handbook effects

The handbook lists image effects including autocrop, emboss, flip, invert, mirror, grayscale, resize, rotate and soften or sharpen.docs.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Handbook tools

The handbook documents tools including brush, color picker, eraser, flood fill, line, pen, rectangles, selections, spraycan and text.docs.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Help

KDE links to the KolourPaint Handbook and a community forum for help.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Issue reporting

KDE provides a bug-report link and a bug-list link for KolourPaint.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

License

The product page lists BSD-2-Clause, LGPL-2.0+ and GFDL-1.2 licenses.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Linux installation

The KDE page lists Linux installation through Discover and other AppStream stores, distribution package managers, and Flathub.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

macOS availability

The KDE page lists macOS as another platform and provides nightly installers for both ARM and Intel Macs.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Privacy

KDE's general software privacy policy says its software generally transfers no user-device information except through explicit user action, with some optional automated checks and opt-in telemetry in some applications.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Purpose

KolourPaint is a simple painting program for quickly creating raster images and handling touch-ups and simple image editing.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

Testing builds

KDE describes nightly installers as testing versions generated from the latest development branch.apps.kde.org · read 4 Oct 2026

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