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Drawing

Simple image editor for Linux, inspired by Paint and aimed at the GNOME desktop

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Repository activity
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License

GPL-3.0

Languages
  • Python
  • Meson
  • Shell
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About Drawing

Drawing is a simple image editor for Linux. It offers a Paint-like workflow for creating and adjusting pictures without the weight of a full graphics suite, making quick edits and sketches fast and approachable.

It opens and saves PNG, JPEG, and BMP files, and provides pencil, brushes, eraser, highlighter, line, and curve tools alongside text, shapes, and selections. You can crop, scale, rotate, and skew images, apply filters such as blur and color inversion, and pick colors directly from the canvas.

The interface is designed for the GNOME desktop and adapts to traditional-looking layouts and elementaryOS, as well as to Linux phones like the PinePhone and Librem 5. Drawing is free software under the GPL3 license.

Key features

  • Supports PNG, JPEG, and BMP files
  • Pencil, brushes, eraser, and highlighter
  • Selections, crop, scale, rotate, and skew
  • Filters for contrast, blur, pixelization, and invert colors
  • Shape tools, text insertion, and color picker

Details

On GitHub since
2018
Platforms
Linux
File formats
PNG · JPEG · BMP
License
GPL3
Desktop focus
GNOME · elementaryOS