{"id":4640,"date":"2010-08-17T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T03:57:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T05:21:28","slug":"google-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/google-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best simple drawing program there is is hidden away inside of Google Docs. It&#8217;s free, and completely intuitive to use. Google Drawing is the opposite of Adobe&#8217;s Illustrator, which while insanely deep (and expensive) requires hours if not years to master. You can draw with this one in seconds. The controls of Google&#8217;s app follow the same general novice format as those in Power Point, or Word, but don&#8217;t require any other software beyond your browser. More importantly, it is a no-brainer to export the drawing directly to the web, or as a jpeg or even PDF. And it has the usual advantages of cloud life: the drawing can be collaboratively worked, and it is backed up automatically. Despite being idiot-proof you can do amazingly sophisticated work with it &#8212; diagrams, charts, doodles, or paint over photographic images. For 99% of your drawing needs, this handy free app will satisfy nicely.  As Jerry Micalski, who introduced me to this gem, said of it: &#8220;it&#8217;s as simple as MacDraw but smart enough to publish to a Web page.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"googledraw2.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/googledraw2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best simple drawer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}