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Have you heard about the Google Drawing application?
Many of us don’t know Google drawing application is.
Google drawing application is like a paint application.
it is more advanced than paint application.
it has a lot of tools to access, for easy drawing.
Where Google drawing application is available?
It is available on Google Drive.
Open the Google Drive application on your laptop.
Click on the new button option.
A dropdown box will appear, go to the more options
select the Google drawing.
Google drawing canvas new document open,
it is a Google product, most of us don’t know the cool feature of it.
On top of the menu, you can see the file, star, shape, move option.
see document status option, when it was updated.
Below the file name, you can see the main menu bar.
The menu bar contains:
file, edit, view,insert, format arrange tools, help,
and it shows the last edited time.
Below the menu bar, you can see the drawing tools
used further drawing on the checkerboard.
The drawing tools
undo shortcut is control plus Z and redo control plus Y.
If you draw on a checkerboard, want to go back one step,
backward making it correct, you want to go forward,
using the tools undo and redo.
many of us use the shortcuts because it is timesaving,
moreover, sometimes it may not be used also.
The symbols of the undo and redo you can see in this picture.
Besides that:
you can see the printer option shortcut is control+ p.
mostly printer option is used for after completing.
you can take the printout of the drawing.
we can save in the computer system in the form of the PDF,
or image, JPG, PNG format.
Besides the print option, you can see the paint format.
present it is disabled because there is no drawing,
on the canvas.
The next one is a ZOOM option
you can ZOOM in and ZOOM OUT
depending on the Canva visibility.
In the dropdown box of the ZOOM option:
you can see fit the screen of the Canva.
50% ZOOM, 100% zoom,200% zoom types of options are available.
The keyboard shortcuts for ZOOM, control+alt++and
farther ZOOMout control+alt+-.
It is used for the images to look bigger and small size,
convenient to the artist.
The next one is the selected tool,
it looks like an up arrow shortcut is escape button in the keyboard.
it is also used for the multiple selections of elements on the canvas.
Not only selection you can move the elements,
like text, image any shape also.
Entire in the Google drawing the most used tool,
that we are going to talk about that is a line tool.
line tool it is used for drawing lines on the canvas.
it has 7 sub tools each,
one of those sub tools has different properties.
The first one is the line: it is used for the straight lines.
The second one is an arrow:
which indicates the straight direction of the arrow.
The third one is the elbow connector:
it looks like steps and end of the line show the arrow direction.
4th is a curved connector:
curvature lines like S shape.
Above all are open curves figures.
The fifth one is curve:it is a closed diagram.
closed curve means starting point and endpoint are,
connected at end of the diagram.
6th is a polyline:
it is also a closed diagram but it has sides,
starts from the three sides of the triangle to unlimited sides.
7th is scribble:
it works like a pencil, use for the closed figures
and also for the open diagrams.
freehand of drawing nothing but a scribble.
The next tools we are going to discuss is shapes.
In shapes, you have the subcategories:
of arrow, shapes, callout shapes, and equation shapes.
After completing shapes next is a text box.
you can use the different style of free font,
that is already provided by the Google.
selecting off the text box and you get different sub-properties
to change the text font family
increase and decrease the size of the font
you can bold text or particular letter.
you can change into the italic shape
and also the underlying the words.
how to change the text color in the Google drawing
you can change the text color,
The answer is select text go to the properties of colors,
the symbol of the color is a capital letter A underline.
if you don’t like the change of the entire color,
just highlight the text, you can select the highlight tool.
you can give the link to the text,
align left or right side of the canvas.
how to add an image in Google drawing
After completing all of those above add an images,
images can be added from computer,
you can upload from the computer.
there are a list of options to upload,
images in Google drawing canvas or checkerboard.
The first option is to upload from the computer.
The second one is to search from the web.
third option is Google Drive.
4th is Google Photos.
5th is to add the URL.
6th option is the camera:
you can take the images directly from the camera.
After completing you are drawing in Google drawing,
you don’t need to worry about how to save it.
it is automatically saved in,
your Google drawings of Gmail account.