Tips and Tricks

4 Quick Tips for Getting Started

Find images with transparent backgrounds

Past calculation "png" to your image search text, you tin can find images that do not accept a box effectually them. Y'all tin can also choose to add "transparent background" if "png" is not loading whatever results.

Customize the size of your Google Drawing

Choose "File" and "Page Setup." Click on "Standard" and choose "Custom." Here you lot can suit the starting size of your cartoon by inches, centimeters, points or pixels. If y'all want a high-resolution image at the end of your project, I'd recommend clicking "Pixels" and then doubling or tripling the number in each box. That way, your image will look the same on your screen but the detail will exist much greater.

Add together a text box for directions

If you add together a shape or text box to the left or correct of your template, yous have a great infinite for adding directions right on a student's screen. That way, students don't have to click away from their work to see what is expected of them and information technology saves you a trip to the copy room!

Change the coloring or transparency of an prototype

You tin can brand an image appear older, or choose a dissimilar shading for whatever image added in Google Drawings. Students tin adjust the prototype of their choice by selecting the image, clicking "Image Options" from the toolbar and choosing their desired option under "Recolor." They tin can also adjust the image transparency in the same menu.

Basic Elements of Google Drawing

Searching for Images in Google Drawing

How to Consign or Distribute Drawings

How to use Google Drawings with Google Slides

How to Insert a Video into a Google Drawing