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i think that using a "real" color-picker may help kids to get used to standard drawing tools, familiarizing them and maybe giving them at some point the curiosity of using complex drawing tools? i was thinking of a more "gimp-like" color chooser, as i don't know if there is a way to put thousands of colours and intensities on a same flat image... the ideal would maybe be one flat image though...? j On Thursday 15 January 2004 00:45, Mark K. Kim wrote: > How about... > > a picture of a palette. kind of like this: > > http://www.janedoe.com/images/palette.gif > > additionally, there is a pool of white paint in the middle. > if you select the colors on the side, the color of the white > paint in the middle changes slightly towards that color. > you can mix the different colors to get the color you want. > > We'd want at least cyan, yellow, magenta, black, and white > on the palette. Secondary colors as well as brown would be > good to have also, among others. > > It's a CYMK model, which is what kids are more familiar with from the art > class. They should also be familiar with paint mix concept so seeing a > palette should make it easier for them to know what to do. Some sort of > instruction and/or animation would be necessary to help them use it > properly (of course.) > > -Mark > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > > > > Jeremy also suggested a color picker. I'm thinking of a rainbow colored > > button at the far right. When the user clicks it, a color picker dialog > > would appear. > > > > Of course, I'd allow disabling of this feature with some "--no..." option. > > > > Comments? > > > > What kind of color picker would be good for kids, too? > > Needs to be simple, but also easily get to all 16.7m colors ;) > > > > -bill! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux Paint! > > http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/ tuxpaint/ > > -- > Mark K. Kim > AIM: markus kimius > Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ > Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci > Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 > PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE > PGP key available on the homepage > _______________________________________________ > Tuxpaint-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev > - -- ** Jeremie ZIMMERMANN * * * http://tofz.org ** ** get my GNUPG/PGP public key at http://tofz.org/pubkey.asc ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABoyF1eTOPM/5+wsRAgfKAJ9GlGb0DyDHB42gr1q3vj7XPVnEZwCfb9Uy lcfZ3Xyh1qTMM4aa6ar4CtU= =qhyi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
