Filed under: Design, Kids, Macintosh, Commercial
Doozla: drawing so easy a child can do it
by Todd Ritter Mar 21st 2008 at 2:00PM
The interface is fullscreen and child friendly since it provides large icons and a simple feature set. There are standard tools like a color chooser, eraser, paint bucket, and ellipse tool, and clicking any of the tools triggers a jolly voice to vocalize the name of the tool or color that was chosen.
Unfortunately Doozla only saves drawings in .doozla files (not .jpgs, .gifs, etc.), so it's not very easy to share creations. However, you can print the drawing to a standard printer or to a PDF.
Doozla costs $24.95, but a 30-day trial is available.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joe said 3:28AM on 3-22-2008
Wow, a $25 copy of Microsoft Paint. Awesome.
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michael said 1:29PM on 3-22-2008
Rats. It's Mac only. You guys could have mentioned that in the article? And why is it Mac only?
It would be really awesome if DS could just put up some colored or contrasting box somewhere near the beginning of the article saying what OS's it supports. That way I don't have to be disappointed.
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Todd Ritter said 2:16PM on 3-22-2008
Directly under the article title, date, and author is a category listing ("Filed under"). I put it in the Macintosh category...not Windows, or Linux.
I usually do mention (redundantly) that it is only for one OS. Sorry. I updated the article to reflect that.