Kid Pix also features different paper textures, fill patterns, and mixer effects that let you add colorizing, posterizing, and other effects to a portion of a picture or to the whole thing. Wacky brushes fill the screen with rich swirls and splotches.
There are a lot of really fun tools in Kid Pix too–3-D spray paint, for example, which splashes objects like balloons, flowers, bugs, and candy on the page. While it would be nice to have a girl voice speaking the instructions too, Kid Pix developers deserve kudos for making this program accessible to kids who are too young to read and for those who have learning disabilities that would make the pop-up help tough for them to get through. A handy help button offers pop-up instructions for showing kids what to do, and accompanies it with spoken instructions (the recorded voice is that of a friendly and enthusiastic young boy). Admittedly, the tools here are a bit more limited, but it’s enough to get a young artist started. There are host of handy tools on palettes clicking on one of the buttons on the left-hand side yields drawing, painting, mixing, rubber stamp, cutting, text, and erasing tools similar in function to what you’d find in Photoshop or Painter. It’s also a lot prettier to look at–gone are the skimpy Mac OS 9-style icons and cursors, replaced by a menagerie of lush 3-D objects.
KIDS PIX DELUXE 4 FUN ICON MAC OS X
Beside Mac OS X compatibility, the most obvious difference between this Kid Pix and the previous release is how much more space it takes up on the screen: Kid Pix Deluxe 3 occupies more than twice the drawing space, giving kids that much more room to realize their vision.