We know some of you have been waiting for these.
- Resizable canvas. There’s a new Settings button at the top right corner that has the option (along with options for the grid); the canvas can be made much bigger than the browser window too.
- Rotate and flip. Make a selection to reveal the floating buttons.
- Properties panel for power-users to enter dimensions. Make a selection, then type Enter or click the floating button to invoke it. Goes great with the grid.
- Search. Both in the library pane, as well as in the public library.
Enjoy!
August 21, 2008 at 11:30 am
All very cool. You must be having mucho fun doing this!
Feature request: even in Freehand mode, smooth the drawn lines a little bit. This is not (IMHO) a tool for artists who need fine control. It’s for geeks like me who just want to draw with the mouse and not have it look crap.
Yeah, I know I said ‘ignore feature requests’….
August 21, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Ian, we’ll always have a completely freehand mode; lots of users need it, and I’m sure you would need it at times too. We could conceivably add a third mode for smooth freehand though.
P.S. we do a small amount of unobtrusive smoothing already. Trying drawing the same thing in MS Paint for comparison.
September 23, 2008 at 1:24 pm
very nice and useful site here.. great features for online discussions.
couple of suggestions from me for better use..
1- Ability to add pictures as backgroud or fixing images. People click on the image and move it by mistake alot if not fixed.
2- Re freehand..its good. Only add automatic arrow-head at the end when one clicks on the arrow button. Arrow head is the hardest to draw and it can look really ugly.
3- Auto-line/curve…not a must but would be really good if you can add 2 more curvature control points if above a certain length.
Hope these make sense…wonderful tool. Keep up the good work.
cheers.
September 23, 2008 at 7:52 pm
cross, thanks for the suggestions. I’m not sure I agree on some of your points:
1. Maybe we should just make it harder to move images, so you must use the move handle at the top-left corner or the blue border. (Edit: just pushed this out)
2. I assume if you’re drawing freehand, you’d want to draw the arrow-head freehand as well. Freehand mode really isn’t for arrows.
3. Each curve is a quadratic bezier curve, so it has a single control point. To make complex curves (like a sine wave), you’d need to draw more curves.
October 14, 2008 at 8:35 pm
loving the re-sizeable canvas, but is it possible to have the canvas size recognise when it’s too small? otherwise, you wind up re-sizing the canvas every time you access a “board” you’ve created on a bigger canvas.
what are you calling each individual drawing? a dabble? a board?
October 14, 2008 at 10:03 pm
stephen, we call an individual drawing just a “drawing” :).
We’ve thought about automatically expanding the canvas but it can also be jarring if you’re switching back-and-forth between drawings. But we could probably improve the canvas resizing interface to help with your problem.