Awesome
Drawing
This simple image editor, similar to Microsoft Paint, is aiming at the GNOME desktop.
PNG, JPEG and BMP files are supported.
Besides GNOME, the app is well integrated in traditional-looking desktops, as well as elementaryOS.
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.
<img alt="" height="100" src="https://flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.png">.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | 65% | @ContractISover |
| ca | Catalan | 93% | @jordimas |
| cs | Czech | 99% | @pervoj |
| da | Danish | 77% | @scootergrisen |
| de | German | 100% | @Etamuk |
| English | 100% | help welcome ** | |
| es | Castillan | 100% | @fitojb, @xoan, @oscfdezdz |
| eu | Basque | 82% | @alexgabi |
| fi | Finnish | 99% | @mahtiankka |
| fr | French | 100% | |
| he | Hebrew | 57% | @moriel5, @shaqash, @omeritzics |
| hi | Hindi | ~20% | @sujaldev |
| hr | Croatian | 97% | @milotype |
| hu | Hungarian | 48% | @kami911 |
| id | Indonesian | 59% | @ekickx |
| it | Italian | 99% | @amivaleo and @albanobattistella |
| ja | Japanese | 86% | @rlbxku1r |
| kr | Korean | 90% | @chaeya |
| nl | Dutch | 97% | @Vistaus |
| oc | Occitan | 33% | @Mejans |
| pl | Polish | 100% | @pkomur |
| pt_BR | Br. portuguese | 100% | @haurenburu and @ArthurBacci64 |
| ru | Russian | 99% | @tim77 and @Ser82-png |
| sv | Swedish | 99% | @eson57 |
| tr | Turkish | 100% | @TeknoMobil and @serkan-maker |
| zh_CN | Chinese, simpl. | 61% | @OverflowCat |
| zh_TW | Chinese, tradi. | 62% | @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 1.0.0)
Tools in italic can be disabled.
Classic tools
These tools have many options (colors, antialiasing, size, gradients, dashes, outline style, …) that are not listed here.
- Pencil
- Brushes (pressure sensitive):
- Simple round brush
- Hairy brush
- Airbrush
- Calligraphic nibs
- Eraser
- Highlighter
- Line
- Curve
- Insert text
- Insert points, to help captioning
- Shape:
- rectangle
- rounded rectangle
- circle
- oval
- polygon
- free shape
- Color picker
- Paint
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
- Rotate (rotate or flip)
- Filters:
- Saturation (increase or decrease)<!-- - Veil -->
- Transparency
- Increase contrast
- Blur (various types)
- Pixelization
- Invert colors
- Skew
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 icon theme.