Crop, flip, scale and rotate selections.You can also use a freehand eraser to remove parts of an image or photo. Want to draw shapes? You can do that too.īecause no-one’s perfect, Drawing lets you undo changes using ctrl + z or the toolbar button. It lets you draw free hand on a blank canvas, or on an image you paste/open, in a colour of your choice, with a number of different brush styles to pick from. Think meme making, screenshot annotations, wobbly sketched moustaches on selfies, and that sort of thing rather than complex, detailed or multi-layered masterpieces.ĭrawing supports a number of popular image formats, including. What Drawing can’t do is almost as important as what it can do that’s to say, it’s a simply designed app designed for simple use-cases. This simple image editor for Linux desktops is made in the mould of the Microsoft Paint, meaning it isn’t trying to out-do The GIMP, pitch itself as an alternative to Photoshop, or pick up where Pinta left off. Looking for a program like Microsoft Paint but for the Linux desktop? Check out the aptly named ‘ Drawing‘, a new GTK app that ably fills the gap.