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Drawing

Drawing is a photo editing program, available on Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Drawing is a photo editing program, available on Linux.

File formats mentioned: PNG and JPEG.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “This basic image editor can resize, crop, or rotate an image, apply simple filters, insert or censor text, and manipulate a selected portion of the picture (cut/copy/paste/drag/…)” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Drawing is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

This basic image editor can resize, crop, or rotate an image, apply simple filters, insert or censor text, and manipulate a selected portion of the picture (cut/copy/paste/drag/…) And of course, you can draw! Using tools such as the pencil, the straight line, the curve tool, many shapes, several brushes, and their various colors and options. Supported file types include PNG, JPEG and BMP.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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