Google Drawing Tips

Google drawing is a tool specifically designed to make image, drawing, editing and sharing easy. With this tool, you will be able to create drawings or upload drawings and edit them or let other people edit your drawing. You can even chat, comment or share views with multiple people who are editing your drawings. So in short multiple people can at a time work on a single document to make things easy. In the following article I will be giving you some basic introduction into the world of google drawing.

How to Create google drawing?

Take Google drive (by login to your google account) >> click the Create button (red button leftmost of the page) >> select the option Drawing.

The document can be saved by clicking the title 'Untitled Drawing'. You will be able to name your article then which can be changed whenever you want.

Steps to Drawing:

• Select the shape and draw them on the sheet. There are two ways of selecting shapes. Select 'Insert' from the menu bar >> select the option 'Shape' OR mouse over the image combination 'circle and square' on the sub menu bar >> Select 'Shapes'.
• If you need to insert text on shapes, select the image with 'T' on the sub menu bar >> draw on the sheet and insert the text on the field.
• Image can be inserted by clicking the 'image' on the sub menu bar (right after the text box).
• Arrows can be inserted by clicking the 'line image' on the sub menu bar and select the arrows accordingly.
• For duplicating the shapes, select the already drawn image >> ctrl c >> ctrl v >> then drag the copy of the image and place it on the position you wish to place.
• Inorder to arrange the shapes, select the image >> select the option 'Arrange' on the menu bar >> mouse over the option Centre on page >> select the options accordingly like Horizontally or vertically.
• Background color can be given for the drawing. For this select 'Format' from the menu bar >> select background >> select the color of your choice.
• By applying the option 'Group', you can group a set of shapes. The steps are select the shapes >> click 'Arrange' on the menu bar >> select the option 'Group'.
• The drawing can be made aesy by practising the keyboard shortcuts which is available on the document itself. Select Help from the menu bar >> select 'keyboard shortcuts'.

Google drawing is one of the latest application from google simplifies the conventional approach in creating and posting pictures online. It can be effectively used to edit multiple pictures by multiple people. I hope this article helped you to understand the basics of google drawing. Please let me know your feedback by commenting this article. Happy drawing:)