DrawPile
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Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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Calle Laakkonen Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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While it does what it says, being our staple-use for years, it has it's short-comings.
The main big cons I can bring out is: • With stabilization completely off, the line is jittery no matter what, making line stabilization (smoothing) absolutely worthless. • The color stretching and mixing implementation falls short by a huge range, to the point, where it's easier to just block things in with selecting in-between values and saturations, rather even trying to make a working brush. • While there are updates, there don't seem to be any significant progress (functionality-wise). • Certain functionality is obscured, or straight up confusing. For example, canvas rotation through key-input. Or selection rotation/scaling.
I'd tell you to look for another, but this is honestly the only usable thing, that we can restrict to our VLAN.
There is another in-browser one called "Magma Studio", which is worth a check.
The app is still very raw, especially in the brushes part. But it is software with a lot of potential and better features can certainly be added in the future.
Drawpile's public art rooms often include inappropriate content made by minors, or unprotected rooms by adults. It is a vulnerable environment for young artists. Rooms may be password protected and artists have the ability to curate a room for a select amount of users, fortunately leaving opportunity to create safe, family-friendly rooms for younger artists. My worry is that Drawpile may be enabling this behavior by both kids and adults.
very simple, powerful and free, great for education
Drawpile is a fantastic platform with many updates regularly.
Offering a secure drawing experience ranging up to 30+ users per canvas it can be a storm of ideas.
It's open source and with an active user base bugs are frequently addressed.
Having been a avid drawer for 25+ years I can say with confidence that it's well worth a try.
Can't recommend this one enough.