Drawing

A simple drawing application for Linux.

This application is a basic image editor, similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.

PNG, JPEG and BMP files are supported.

Besides GNOME, some more traditional design layouts are available too, as well as an elementaryOS layout. It should also be compatible with Purism's Librem 5 phone.

Screenshots

Default user interface (for GNOME/Budgie)

More screenshots (version 0.4.x):

• Color chooser
• Open/Import menu, with several tabs opened
• The selection tool and its menu
• Drawing things a blank picture with tools, with the preview opened
• Inserting text
• Adjusting the saturation, with the main menu opened

Alternative user interfaces

• elementaryOS UI
• Cinnamon UI
• MATE UI
• The default "GNOME" UI can be resized to be compatible with the Purism Librem 5 phone. Screenshot and screencast on Youtube (version 0.2, which is old).

Installation

Last stable version

Recommended

You can install it from flathub.org using the instructions on this page.

Other packages available

• Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04 and 19.10: PPA
• "Snap" package

Unstable/nightly version

See here

Available languages

• Brazilian portugese (thanks to Antonio Hauren)
• Castillan (thanks to Adolfo Jayme-Barrientos and Xoan Sampaiño)
• Dutch (thanks to Heimen Stoffels)
• English
• French
• German (thanks to Onno Giesmann)
• Hebrew (thanks to moriel5 and Shaked Ashkenazi)
• Italian (thanks to Jimmy Scionti and Albano Battistella)
• Russian (thanks to Artem Polishchuk)
• Turkish (thanks to Serdar Sağlam)

Available tools

(last update: version 0.5-unstable)

Classic tools

• Pencil (options: dashes, blur, eraser, …)
• Line (options: arrow, dashes, blur, gradient, …)
• Arc (options: arrow, dashes, …)
• Insert text (options: font, shadow, font size, …)
• Shape (options: filling, gradient, …):
  • rectangle
  • circle
  • oval
  • polygon
  • free shape
• Color picker
• Paint (options: remove a color, …)

Selection tools

These tools allow you to define an area (rectangle or free), which you can move, cut, copy, paste, edit with canvas tools, export, open as a new image, etc.

• Rectangle selection
• Free shape selection
• Adjacent color selection

Canvas/selection edition tools

These tools allow to edit the whole image, or to edit a selected part of it.

• Crop
• Scale (options: keep proportions or not)
• Rotate (rotate or flip)
• Filters:
  • Blur
  • Saturation (increase or decrease)
  • Transparency
  • Invert colors
  • Pixelate
  • …

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