Tutorials
Learn Janvas by doing
Complete projects, step by step, with the real editor: each step tells you what to do and shows what you see. The first one is a vector illustration; more are on the way.
Illustration
Draw a leaf
A leaf drawn with the pen, shaded, with a brush vein, repeated in a wreath and exported to SVG.
Precision
Drawing with precision: snapping
Every kind of snapping, one by one: where it happens, what it is called, which one wins.
Layout
Lay out a price list
A multi-page price list: the header and the page number on a master, the list in a table, printing.
Technical drawing
Dimension a floor plan
A DXF floor plan opened in Janvas, the 1:50 scale, a linear dimension and a radius dimension, the view at scale and printing.
Animation
Animate a logo
A logo that assembles itself: a bar that slides out, a dot that appears, easing and export to animated SVG.
Photo book
Make a photo book
The photos in the Images archive, the favorites, Auto layout laying them out by itself, a grid variant and cropping a photo.
Templates
The template library
The Templates panel, the categories, a page by double-click or dragged onto the canvas, and the changed copy.
Eyedropper
Take the style from another object
The eyedropper brings onto the selected objects the fill, the stroke or the text style of what you click.
Pages
Move between pages
The view with the wheel and the right button, Fit to view, the Pages panel, pages in a row or a grid, deleting a page.
Texts
Write and shape text
A title and a box with the text tool, columns, Text in shape, Text on path and Convert to path.
Alignment
Align to the page and to objects
Three boxes aligned and distributed, a circle centered on the page, a reflected arrow.
Brushes
Draw with brushes
The brush list, a stroke, Thickness and Scale in the Brush panel, and a brush applied to a circle and to a path.
Groups and booleans
Groups, containers and booleans
A group of circles, double-click to enter, a subtraction, the operation changed and the source moved from inside.
Clip and mask
Clip and mask
The right order, Clip with a star, double-click to move the photo inside, Mask with a white-to-black gradient.
Order and tree
Above, below and the Document tree
Bring to front and the other Arrange commands, the Document tree, a row dragged into a group.
Libraries
Colors, gradients and patterns
Double-click on a swatch, ⌥ for the stroke, a gradient, a dragged pattern, the document colors and recoloring.
Modifiers
Repeat and deform with modifiers
The three kinds of Array with their numbers, a checkerboard in perspective, a hole with Offset.
Symbols and patterns
Create symbols and patterns
Create symbol, uses dragged from the Symbols panel, the symbol edited for all, Create pattern and the pattern given to a shape.