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Release Notes

Release 261108.01

Drawing Gallery — New Look and Easier Discovery

  • Open Canvas: Explore drawings started by others and add your own creative touch.
  • Gallery Rooms: Browse artwork through five illustrated Rooms:
    • People & Portraits
    • Nature & Landscapes
    • Abstract & Fantasy
    • Places & Architecture
    • Objects & Still Life
  • Display Your Artwork: When listing a drawing in the Gallery, select up to three Rooms where you want it displayed. You can also manage Room selections later from My Work.
  • Find Artwork: Search drawings by title or artist name.
  • Simpler Navigation: Use Show All to return to the full Gallery, or Sort to change the order of artwork.
  • Mobile Improvements: A cleaner, more compact layout makes browsing easier on phones and tablets.

Release 261028.01 — Vector Drawing Improvements

Creator-Only Editing

Drawings created under a Creator account can now be edited only by their Creator. Others can view Listed drawings and follow Live Updates without changing the artwork. Protection is no longer needed to prevent edits.

Protection Replaced by View Key

The old Protection and Protection Key features have been retired. Drawings created under a Creator account are now automatically protected from editing by others.

Creators can use a View Key to add privacy to their Unlisted drawings. When a View Key is enabled, visitors must enter the correct key to view the drawing.

Creators can create, change, or remove a View Key for their Unlisted drawings.

Collaborate First, Claim Later

Creators can select Yes under Allow others to edit? when creating a Vector drawing. This creates an anonymous drawing that anyone with the link can edit. The original signed-in Creator can later choose Claim Drawing from Options. Claiming makes editing Creator-only while keeping the artwork, URL, and history.

Transfer Ownership

Creators can transfer ownership of a Vector drawing to another Creator through My Space → My Work. Search by Creator name, select the correct account, and confirm the transfer. The recipient becomes the new owner with exclusive editing access. The drawing keeps its artwork, name, URL, and history.

Live Updates and Chat

Live Updates and Drawing Chat remain available. Visitors can follow Creator-owned drawings without editing, while anonymous drawings still support collaborative editing. Claiming ends open editing without removing artwork or Chat history.

Release 261025.01

Raster Art

  • Introduced a new pixel-based drawing option for artwork where vector drawing may not be the best choice.
  • Supports freehand drawing, brushes, colors, erasing, and multiple canvas formats, including Standard, Book Cover, and Item.
  • Save and edit Raster drawings, and choose whether to list them publicly or keep them unlisted with optional View Key access.
  • Raster artwork can now be displayed in Galleries and used in Storyboards.

Storyboards — Story Mode

  • Introduced Story Mode for presenting storyboards as a sequence of scenes.
  • Invite others to follow your presentation in real time, with integrated chat.
  • Added smooth transitions between scenes.
  • Supports both Vector and Raster artwork.

Galleries

  • Added Raster Art to the Gallery navigation.
  • Added Raster drawings to My Art, with search and sorting options.
  • Improved Raster Gallery browsing and navigation.

Drawing App

  • Improved Live Updates reliability and drawing synchronization.
  • Fixed issues affecting saving during Live Updates.
  • Additional Chat improvements and stability fixes.

Release 261016.01

My Space

  • Redesigned My Space for a better user experience.

Drawing App

  • Added the ability to share layers across multiple drawings.
  • Fixed several bugs and improved stability.

Release 261014.02

Drawing App — Create Region

  • New tool to create closed shapes from existing lines, curves, and paths.
  • Select the objects and click inside an enclosed area to create a new editable shape.
  • Original drawing objects remain unchanged.

Release 261008.01

My Space

  • New option to control whether other Creators can send you Direct Messages.

Release 261007.01

My Space

  • Account Settings
    • Account Settings are now available directly from My Space.
    • Update your Creator name, email, About information, and privacy settings.
    • Password accounts can change their password from Account Settings.
  • Direct Messages
    • See Last Seen information for conversation partners who choose to share it.
    • Check Activity refreshes available activity information for the selected person.
    • Added text-size controls to make conversations easier to read.

Writing App

  • Creator Names
    • Stories and Story Parts now show a Creator's current public name when they are signed in with a Creator account.

Site Improvements

  • General Improvements
    • Various UI, navigation, and usability improvements.

Release 261005.01

Drawing App

  • Layers Share
    • Control which layer a viewer sees while you work.
    • Enable Layers → Share — Start sharing a layered drawing.
    • Show — Choose which layer is visible to viewers.
    • Changes made to the layer being shown appear live for viewers.
    • Viewers remain read-only and only see the layer being presented.
  • Layered Drawing Thumbnails
    • Thumbnails for drawings using Layers now show only the first layer.
  • Multiple Selection — Desktop
    • Select multiple individual objects using Shift, Ctrl, or Command while clicking.
    • Selected objects can be moved, resized, copied, flipped, or deleted together.
  • Selection Menu — Desktop
    • Selected artwork now has a compact contextual menu for common actions.
    • Fill — Fill supported closed shapes.
    • Color — Change the color of supported selected artwork.
    • Front / Back — Change the stacking order of selected artwork within its layer.
    • Multiple selected objects can also be moved to the Front or Back together.
    • Copy and Delete are now available through the contextual menu for a cleaner drawing toolbar.
    • New Cut/Paste option lets you reposition or modify a copy before choosing Finish or Cancel.
    • Front and Back are disabled during Live Updates.
  • Geometric Shapes
    • Polygon is now grouped with Line, Rectangle, and Circle in the Geometric Shapes menu.
  • Drawing Comments
    • Drawings now have a Comments button.
    • Leave feedback directly on a drawing without using the live Chat conversation.

Other Pages

  • My Space
    • My Work provides one place to view and manage your Stories, artwork, and Not a Story pieces.
  • General Improvements
    • Various UI and usability improvements.

Release 20261002.02

Drawing App

  • Reusable Items
    • Create and save selected drawing objects as reusable Items.
    • New Drawing — Create a new drawing using a saved Item.
    • Actions → Save Item — Save selected artwork as a reusable Item.
    • Actions → Insert Item — Insert saved Items into your current drawing.
  • New Gallery Experience
    • Gallery — Browse publicly listed drawings.
    • Collections — Browse reusable Items.
    • My Art — When signed in, view all your artwork in one place, including unlisted drawings and Items.
  • Optimize
    • Experimental feature that may improve the performance of complex drawings by creating an optimized copy.

Other Pages

  • My Space
    • A place to find Direct Messages and My Work.
  • General Improvements
    • Various UI and usability improvements.
    • Updated drawing ownership and access rules.