Google Drawings

{{short description|Cloud-based diagramming software}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = Google Drawings

| logo = Google Drawings 2015 Logo.svg

| logo size = 70px

| screenshot = Google Drawings Untitled drawing.png

| caption = An example of a drawing in Google Drawings

| developer = Google

| released = {{Start date and age|2010|04|12}}

| platform = Web application, Chrome app

| language = English

| genre = Diagramming software

| website = {{URL|https://drawings.google.com}}

}}

Google Drawings is a diagramming software included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. The service also includes Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, Google Sites, and Google Keep. Google Drawings is available as a web application and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. The app allows users to create and edit flowcharts, organisational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other types of diagrams online while collaborating with other users in real-time.

It allows importing images from the computer or from the Web as well as inserting shapes, arrows, scribbles and text from predefined templates. Objects can be moved, resized and rotated. The software also allows for basic editing of images, including cropping, applying masks and adding borders.{{cite web|first=Brian |last=Levee |date=March 25, 2014|title=Edit images right in Google Slides and Drawings|url=http://googledrive.blogspot.in/2014/03/edit-images-right-in-google-slides-and.html|work=Google Drive Blog|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216202111/http://googledrive.blogspot.in/2014/03/edit-images-right-in-google-slides-and.html|archive-date=December 16, 2014}} Other features include laying out drawings precisely with alignment guides, snapping to grid, and auto-distribution. Unlike many of the other software in the Google Docs Editors suite, Google Drawings does not have its own dedicated home, as visiting the Google Drawings URL creates a new document. {{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Drawings can be inserted into other Google documents, spreadsheets, or presentations. They can also be published online as images or downloaded in standard formats such as JPEG, SVG, PNG, or PDF.{{cite web|first=Sebastion |last=Anthony|title=Google Docs Drawing tool removes any reason to use MS Paint ever again|url=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/08/18/google-docs-drawing-tool-removes-any-reason-to-use-ms-paint/|date=August 18, 2010 |archive-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019065935/http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/08/18/google-docs-drawing-tool-removes-any-reason-to-use-ms-paint/}}