Curious George Paint and Print Studio

by Pearson Software

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004UB6G
• Item model number: 0743503848
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 4, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,015 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #19 in Software > Children's Software > Art & Creativity
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Some familiar and beloved storybook icons go electronic in Curious George Paint and Print Studio, an interactive sticker album aimed at children between the ages of 3 and 8. This easy-to-use program lets children create pictures featuring the Curious George characters and other graphics, all in the style of the originals, created by Margret and H.A. Rey.

Paint and Print Studio provides users with a number of ready-made backgrounds to decorate, everything from Curious George's home to a circus. Within these environments, users can choose from a wide palette of graphical stamps, placing Curious George and his friends on the page. The user has total control over the scene; with toys, tools, and cartoon-style special effects, children can fill out any possible tableau. And, after illustrating your own Curious George epic on the computer screen, it is also easy to save favorite pictures or to output them on a color printer.

A simple program with one or two relatively sophisticated options, Paint and Print Studio allows users to alter the angle and size of the prepackaged images before inserting them into the scene. If you want a tiny George on a massive pile of blocks (or an enormous George balanced on tiny blocks), you can have it. This little bit of flexibility allows for the creation of some enjoyably surreal images. There are also preset borders and some paint-program basics that permit further tweaking, such as the addition of lines, circles, and other shapes--even chunks of text. The archive of graphic stamps, while not exhaustive, is large and varied. What's more, some of the stamps are animated--when users set him onto a page, Curious George might dance, fall down, or fly a kite. These random animations will delight young players.

Too strictly dedicated to Curious George to be useful as a more general paint program, Paint and Print Studio is nevertheless an excellent introduction to graphics-design software and the creative potential such programs can unlock. --Alyx Dellamonica

Product Description

George is up to his usual antics, sending circus animals flying through the air in dashing acrobatics in six games and activities that will teach children how to recognize letters, sounds, and to sound out words in Curious George Learns Phonics for Kindergarten-1st Grade. Curious George Paint & Print Studio is a full-featured program with over a thousand stamps and dozens of canvases and backgrounds. Children can create their own stories, books, pictures, games, puzzles and more!

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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super-easy fun with art, February 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Curious George Paint and Print Studio (CD-ROM)

This is the first CDRom I have purchased for my 12 month old. I popped in the CD with him on my lap and immediately began creating fun pictures. ALthough it will be awhile before my son can actually navigate it himself, he laughed and laughed as I stamped George and his friends on various backdrops. It is a very imaginative, colorful program with fun music and oodles of options. Great value for the money.