Best 5 Free Drawing Apps For Mac
1. Vectornator: Vector Design/Art
Vectornator is a revolutionary design platform that empowers graphic designers, marketing designers, and illustrators to visualize their ideas.
From beautiful illustrations and graphic layouts to striking logos and lettering, you can do it all with Vectornator's powerful tools and features. Our iPadOS app is optimized for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, and we also support third party styluses. The iOS version is touch-friendly, allowing you to draw from your phone with your finger tips And for those who prefer to design on a desktop, the macOS app is perfect for working with a drawing tablet, or a keyboard and mouse. With iCloud sync, your documents will sync across all devices, allowing you to design anywhere, at any time.
POWERFUL VECTOR TOOLS
1. Create pinpoint Bézier curves with our Pen Tool. You can edit the direction and angle of your paths with the Node Tool.
2. Paint fluid vector shapes with our pressure-sensitive, customizable Brush Tool.
3. Wurn any raster image into vector paths in one tap using Auto Trace. This feature comes with three modes for different use cases - Sketch, Photography, and Illustration.
4. Draw geometric shapes, such as rectangles, circles, and polygons, with the Shape Tool.
5. Sculpt complex illustrations and logos from combined shapes using the Shape Builder.
6. Use advanced vector tools such as corner radius, Boolean operations, and outlining paths.
7. Add beautiful fonts with our Text Tool. You'll have control over line height, kerning, and tracking.
MODERN INTERFACE
1. Our Layers Tab features fully-editable nested groups, so you can organize your designs with ease.
2. The Inspector Tab lets you view and edit the properties of your selected objects, layers, and artboards.
3. Work with multiple artboards in a single document for an optimal UI and Web design experience.
COLORS AND GRADIENTS
1. Our Color Picker supports gradients, palettes, hex codes, HSB, RB, color blending, and wide color gamut.
2. Import color palettes from third-party tools, or create a new palette from a photo.
CONVENIENT SHORTCUTS
1.The Quick Actions Bar takes the most useful tools and options and puts them below your selected object, significantly speeding up your workflow.
2. Intuitive gesture controls allow you to move around your canvas, undo or redo an action, clear, copy, paste, control tools, and find useful menus at your fingertips.
3.Keyboard shortcuts allow you to design quickly and efficiently.
2. Inkscape Editor for Graphic
1. Inkscape editor for draws and graphics is a web extension to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.
2. It is an integration with the Linux Desktop app Inkscape, which is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.
3. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. It is is a vector graphic editor integrated with our file manager to manage only graphic file types with this desktop app.
4. This extension uses the platform OffiDocs from which this software is served. It is an integration with Inkscape Linux desktop application. In concrete, it is a desktop app running through our OffiDocs API.
5. It is available for free online users but it also allows the integration with premium users and on-premises OffiDocs deployments where the OffiDocs Inkscape is installed.
Inkscape features are:
Object creation
1. Drawing: pencil tool (freehand drawing with simple paths), pen tool (creating Bézier curves and straight lines), calligraphy tool (freehand drawing using filled paths representing calligraphic strokes)
2. Shape tools: rectangles (may have rounded corners), ellipses (includes circles, arcs, segments), stars/polygons (can be rounded and/or randomized), spiral.
3. Text tool (multi-line text, full on-canvas editing)
Object manipulation
1. Transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), both interactively and by specifying exact numeric values
2. Grouping objects ("select in group" without ungrouping, or "enter the group" making it a temporary layer.
3. Layers (lock and/or hide individual layers, rearrange them, etc; layers can form a hierarchical tree)
Alignment and distribution
1. Fill and stroke
2. Color selector (RGB, HSL, CMYK, color wheel, CMS
3. Color picker tool
4. Copy/paste style
5. A gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients
6. Pattern fills (bitmap/vectors)
7. Dashed strokes, with many predefined dash patterns
8. Path markers (ending, middle and/or beginning marks, e.g. arrowheads)
Text support
1. Multi-line text
2. Kerning, letterspacing, linespacing adjustments
3. Text on path (both text and path remain editable)
4. Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
File formats
1. Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing
2. Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor
3. PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, EPS and PostScript export formats and more
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