Adobe Illustrator is the most popular and used program in the world by professional graphic designers and designers to draw and create vector images, which are those used for graphics on the computer. The problem with Illustrator is that, being an Adobe program, it costs a lot.
As I had already written a guide to vector images there is a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator and it is Inkscape, open source software very appreciated also by professionals.
In this article we will discover yet another free alternative, much more modern than InkScape, easier to use and usable online, via the web or as a program to be installed on a PC, which provides all the standard tools offered by expensive programs such as Illustrator or Fireworks.
The Gravit website allows you to download or run the completely free Gravit Designer program as a Cloud application, which only requires you to register an account to start using it and create graphics images starting from nothing or from already set drawings.
Gravit Designer, as a program, is available for Windows, Mac and also for Linux and can be downloaded from the Designer.io website.
When creating a design, you can therefore start with a white sheet by choosing only the size, freely or by using some pre-prepared templates, for example, to create the cover of the Facebook profile, for a blog or for an eBook, or to use a template only for modification.
Gravit includes basic tools for drawing vectors, i.e. geometric figures to be used to create digital images such as logos, clip art, images for websites and so on.
The app also supports layers and the import of SVG files and transparent images.
Once you have finished creating the image, you can download the drawing to your PC in JPG, PNG or SVG format or even save it in the Gravit account, to continue working on it. You can also save online in your Gravit account with the layers in contact and come back to it later.
In this short video a tutorial to start drawing with Gravit
In the margins of this article we also see a website that provides an online tool to vectorize any image immediately and automatically, without using Illustrator or other programs.
it is Vector Magic, where you just need to upload an image or a photo to convert it into its vectorized version.
Unfortunately, you can only try it for free twice.
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