Kid Pix 3D

$40, Mac OSX

Teaches: art, creativity

CTR Rating: 92%

CTR Review

Great news for Macintosh owners. Kid Pix, the popular drawing program used in many classrooms during the 1990s, has been updated for OSX. Like the first version, the program makes it easy to experiment with colors, paints, markers and water colors, along with a full library of animated stickers. It is also easy to narrate your creations, using the built in microphone or import your own images using the computer's built in camera or photo library. As with other MacKiev conversions, this program is good at leveraging the Mac's built in attributes. The only drawback is that it is easy to quickly clutter your screen; a criticism that has been made of prior versions of Kid Pix. You can export your project, either as a JPG, or as a QuickTime movie. If you want, there's a 3D option that requires that you wear a pair of paper 3D (red and green lens) glasses. Two pairs are included with the program.