![You Can Now Draw Messages for Your Friends in Google Hangouts. Here's How.](https://s2.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/cd79881b6b83567f9e17c731b6ee2e00af2a2659.png)
Earlier this week, Google quietly released a new feature on its popular chatting client Hangouts: the ability to draw directly in your chat window.
Now you can message your
thoughts through text, photos, or scribbles right in Hangouts (formerly
known as Gchat). The Microsoft Paint-ish tool also allows you to insert a
photo on which you can overlay a drawing or add annotations. Currently
it’s available only in your web browser for Google+ members, but judging
from the early creations I’ve seen, it’s best that we practice doodling
with a cursor before moving on to our fingers.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use the tool:
There are a couple of places in the Google-verse to access Hangouts. For me, it’s usually Gmail.
Open a chat with a friend by clicking a name in the bottom-left corner of your inbox.
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A chat window will pop up at the
bottom of the page. Click inside the compose box as you normally would
to begin typing a conversation.
![image](https://s2.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w263/15df717a5d7fbb6fb58de58953ef7278a5a359e5.png)
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Your blank canvas will appear like magic. Select the drawing tool to make lines. You can adjust their width, opacity, and shape by clicking the options in the second row.
![image](https://s2.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w259/510c5beda6ac7f5790210f7161041addddcb7976.png)
![image](https://s1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w260/2f0258a021e282e90e11ef2022224240edacade7.png)
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If you hover over the right corner of a drawing you sent and click the pen icon, it’ll allow you to draw over the creation again. Meaning you can add on your friend’s drawings as well.
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Here are the amazing masterpieces that my editor and I made:
![image](https://s1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/13213516a0609828f0c409d0c339ee6b5bdd1c4c.png)
The tools are still somewhat
limited. For instance, you can’t undo something when a line goes askew;
you can only cancel the entire thing or use the white color to blot out
mistakes. But it’s the start of something very cool.
I dare you to try and do better.
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