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 the Pinephone and Librem 5 smartphones.
Screenshots
Default user interface (for GNOME/Budgie)
Installation
Last stable version
Recommended
You can install it from flathub.org using the instructions on this page.
Other packages available
- Ubuntu 18.04, 20.10 and 21.04: PPA
- Gentoo package from an external overlay
- "Snap" package
Unstable/nightly version
See here to install and test the app from source code.
Available languages
If your language is not here, or is incompletely translated, you can contribute to the translations.
| code | name | complete*? | main translators |
|---|---|---|---|
| cs | Czech | 85% | @pervoj |
| da | Danish | 82% | @scootergrisen |
| de | German | 96% | @Etamuk |
| English | 100% | help welcome ** | |
| es | Castillan | 99% | @fitojb, @xoan, @oscfdezdz |
| eu | Basque | 84% | @alexgabi |
| fi | Finnish | 67% | @mahtiankka |
| fr | French | 100% | |
| he | Hebrew | 35% | @moriel5 and @shaqash |
| hr | Croatian | 69% | @milotype |
| hu | Hungarian | 56% | @kami911 |
| id | Indonesian | 68% | @ekickx |
| it | Italian | 98% | @amivaleo and @albanobattistella |
| ja | Japanese | 96% | @rlbxku1r |
| kr | Korean | 95% | @chaeya |
| nl | Dutch | 97% | @Vistaus |
| pl | Polish | 64% | @pkomur) |
| pt_BR | Br. portuguese | 72% | @haurenburu and @ArthurBacci64 |
| ru | Russian | 96% | @tim77 and @Ser82-png |
| sv | Swedish | 96% | @eson57 |
| tr | Turkish | 95% | @TeknoMobil and @serkan-maker |
| zh_CN | Chinese, simpl. | 71% | @OverflowCat |
| zh_TW | Chinese, tradi. | 72% | @pan93412, @OverflowCat and @cges30901 |
*Completion percentages correspond to the next major version, still in development.
**Concerning the "original version" in english: all the labels are here, but i'm not a native english speaker, so there might be mistakes. If you find incorrect english labels, please report an issue about it.
Tools
(last update: version 0.8.0)
Tools in italic can be disabled.
Classic tools
General options for these tools: colors, use antialiasing, size, …
- Pencil (options: dashes, line shape, outline, …)
- Brushes (pressure sensitive):
- Simple round brush
- Hairy brush
- Airbrush
- Calligraphic nibs
- Eraser (options: blur, mosaic, transparency, solid color, …)
- Highlighter (options: highlight on dark background)
- Line (options: arrow, dashes, gradient, …)
- Curve (options: arrow, dashes, …)
- Insert text (options: font, shadow/outline, font size, …)
- Insert points (options: shape of the points, include a number, …) to help captioning
- Shape (options: filling style, outline style, gradient, …):
- rectangle
- rounded 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 any transformation tool, export, open as a new image, etc.
- Rectangle selection
- Free shape selection
- Adjacent color selection
Transformation tools
These tools can edit the whole image, or edit a selected part of it.
- Crop
- Scale (options: keep proportions or not)
- Rotate (rotate or flip)
- Filters:
- Saturation (increase or decrease)
- Transparency
- Increase contrast
- Blur (various types)
- Pixelization
- Invert colors
Settings
The settings are managed by the Gio.Settings abstraction, which will probably
corresponds to the dconf database once the app is installed as a native
package.
With flatpak however, the settings are stored in a key-value file, which can be
found (and edited) at ~/.var/app/com.github.maoschanz.drawing/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile.
the code is under GPL3, some tools icons are from here or from the Adwaita theme.