DRAW SVG is a free online application for creating drawings.
- Designed for all content publishers, info graphic designers and developers.
- Edit your drawings with a powerful SVG editor.
- Browse, publish, share and comment drawings with an original graphic social network.
- Create memes with your favorite pictures and photos.
- Turn your photos into Impressionist drawings with Photo to drawing Tool.
- Discover the use of the editor with the interactive learning Showcases Tool.
- Convert your SVG drawings to PNG images for publication.
- Encode your images (svg, png, jpeg) in base 64 for insertion into your HTML pages.
- Pure HTML5 and CSS styles
- Optimized Chrome & FireFox
Latest news
Version 7-3on September 2019
- Floating editing menu,
adding shortcuts to repeat the last drawing actions.
See showcase Shortcuts
Version 7-2on July 2019
- New look and new logo
Faster startup loading.
Version 7-0on May 2019
- Update Google Map integration
See showcase Map
Version 6-9on September 2018
- New graphic social network Board tool
SVG editor
Edit your drawings.
Drawing Board
Browse, publish, share and comment drawings.
Meme maker
Create memes for your favorite photos.
Photo to drawing
Turn your photos into artistic drawings.
Showcases
Learn to use the editor.
SVG to PNG converter
Convert your SVG files in PNG images.
Encode Image
Encode images in base64 for HTML inline insert.
Manage your drawing files
- Save and load on your computer
- Load documents from the openclipart gallery
- Conversion into PNG images
Draw objects
- Basic elements (path, rectangle, circle, ellipse, line, polyline, polygon)
- Bezier curves (cubic, quadratic, arcs, smoothed)
- Straight and curved text
- Images and Google Maps
- Ready-made shapes (a lot of icons, arrows, flowcharts..)
- Media controls (YouTube, video, audio, rich text)
- Multi-language text
- Document composition with svg included
Modify objects
- Click an object, select the closest point clicked or all those included in a rectangle
- Change the order of objects in front of or behind, align edges
- Moving the control points of the geometry of an object
- Transform objects
- Full interactive editing text with the mouse
- Browse map location
- Download and encode PNG into image objects
- Import svg files into included svg objects
Rendering objects
- Copying the style of an object on another
- WYSIWYG editing style properties
- CSS styles management
- Color chooser (RGB, HSV, palette)
- Stroke style (color, scaling, width, dash, opacity, gradient, pattern, cap, join)
- Fill style (color, opacity, gradient. pattern, rule)
- Text style (family, size, font-style,weight, anchor, decoration)
- Marker style (start, mid, end)
- Customize gradients, filters, patterns and markers
Integration in a web application
- Use DRAW-SVG as an integrated drawing tool within your web site
- Edit and save your svg documents
- Integration by API based on mozilla jsSchannel
- See demo
See release notes.
Learning the use of drawsvg is very fast and easy with the Showcases tool.
This is a learning tool that allows to play DRAW SVG feature discovery animations.
This tool reproduces the recorded mouse and keyboard events of a DRAW SVG usage sequence on its interface.
Manage documents
An original graphic social network
Is a social network that manages signed topics composed of a drawing and a description classified by keyword and emojis.
Topics can be commented and followed by answers to build threads.
- Search latest topics by tags, keywords and emojis.
- Browse selection.
- Upload topics drawing.
- Sign In with a google account to add, comment or reply topics.
- To add a topic, select the topic's drawing creation mode from 4 different (from an image file, from a svg file, new meme, start new svg), then set the description and its classification by tags and emojis.
- Reply to a topic by completing its drawing with the editor of DRAWSVG or by a new drawing.
- Edit your topics, drawings and descriptions.
Creating a meme is very easy
- Choose an image or a photo.
- Define the meme size.
- The meme can have up to three captions (top, center,bottom).
- Select a caption, enter its text.
- Adjust the text style.
- Background style and advanced properties (stroke color and filter).
- Then save the meme in SVG or PNG format.
- Finaly you can edit the drawing with the editor of DRAWSVG.
Generating a drawing from a photo using the tool is very easy.
It is achieved by reducing the dimensions of the photo and its number of colors.
Then by extraction of the contours of the colors with filtering and smoothing of the vertices.
About the author
Joseph LIARD is the owner of DRAW SVG.
- Is SVG expert and web development technologies, TOGAF-certified IS architect, practices UML-based design methods.
- Has more than 30 years of experience including 20 in the realization of information systems from the sector of the digital cartography to the applications RH and payroll followed by a specialization in the control of the architecture of the IS.
Partner
Dave GARDINER owner of Xmplar
- Provides professional editing, writing and illustration services.
- Has contributed to DRAW SVG especially to the development of multi-language document functionality.