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A professional-grade online drawing and digital art editor with unlimited layers, advanced brush tools, and a powerful color system. Create illustrations, sketches, and pixel art directly in your browser — no installation required.
Choose from pencil, ink, watercolor, airbrush, and marker presets. Adjust size, opacity, hardness, and flow for every stroke with pressure sensitivity support.
Build complex artwork with unlimited layers. Reorder, merge, duplicate, lock, and apply blend modes and opacity independently to each layer.
Full HSV color wheel with RGB, HEX, and HSL input modes. Save custom swatches, use eyedropper anywhere on the canvas, and switch between foreground and background colors instantly.
Step through your entire creative process with unlimited undo and redo. Experiment without fear — every stroke and edit is preserved in your session history.
Optimized for touch screens, stylus pens, and graphic tablets. Draw naturally on any device — desktop, tablet, or smartphone — with fluid, responsive strokes.
Export finished artwork as PNG (with transparency), JPEG (optimized quality), or scalable SVG. Set custom canvas dimensions and DPI for print-ready output.
From quick sketches to polished digital paintings
Aurora Editor is ideal for concept art, character design, storyboarding, and freehand sketching. The natural brush feel and smooth canvas make it a joy to sketch ideas from scratch or refine rough drafts.
Use Aurora Editor as a full digital painting studio. Import a photo as a reference or base layer, paint over it with realistic brushes, and blend colors naturally. Perfect for artistic photo manipulation and creative retouching.
Every tool you need in one intuitive editor
Multiple brush presets with full control over size, opacity, hardness, spacing, and flow for natural drawing results.
Soft and hard eraser modes with adjustable size. Erase to transparency on any layer without affecting others.
Flood fill, gradient fill, and vector shape tools for rectangles, circles, and polygons with custom stroke and fill settings.
Zoom in up to 3200% for pixel-level precision work. Smooth pan and zoom with mouse wheel, pinch gesture, or keyboard shortcuts.
Start drawing in three simple steps
Choose a canvas size, background color, or import an existing image as your base layer. Preset sizes for social media, print, and screen are available.
Select your brush, pick a color, and start creating. Add layers to keep elements separate and use blend modes for advanced compositing effects.
Save your work as PNG, JPEG, or SVG. Download at full resolution with no watermarks. All processing happens in your browser — your artwork stays private.
Aurora Editor is completely free — no sign-up, no watermarks, no limits. Open it and start drawing right now.
Launch Aurora EditorAurora Editor is a free online drawing and digital art editor built for artists, designers, illustrators, and hobbyists of all skill levels. Whether you're sketching quick ideas, creating detailed illustrations, or digitally painting over photos, Aurora Editor provides the professional tools you need directly in your browser — no software installation required.
No account is needed. Aurora Editor is completely free and open to use instantly. Just open the page, set up your canvas, and start drawing. There are no sign-ups, subscriptions, or paywalls for any of the tools or export options.
You can import JPEG, PNG, WebP, and GIF images as base or reference layers. For export, Aurora Editor supports PNG (with full transparency support), JPEG (with adjustable quality), and SVG for scalable vector output. All exports are full resolution with no watermarks.
Aurora Editor supports unlimited layers. You can add, delete, reorder, duplicate, merge, and lock layers freely. Each layer supports individual opacity control and a full set of blend modes including Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Soft Light, and more for advanced compositing.
Yes. Aurora Editor is fully optimized for touch input on tablets and mobile devices. It supports multi-touch gestures for zoom and pan, and works with stylus pens including Apple Pencil and Samsung S Pen for pressure-sensitive drawing. The interface adapts to smaller screens automatically.
No. All drawing and editing happens entirely in your browser using local memory. Your artwork is never uploaded to our servers. Your images and creative work remain completely private on your device. We recommend exporting and saving your work locally before closing the browser tab.
Absolutely. Aurora Editor provides unlimited undo and redo for every action taken during your session — from individual brush strokes to layer operations, color fills, and transformations. Use Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z on Mac) to undo and Ctrl+Y to redo at any time.
You can set any custom canvas size in pixels. Preset options are available for common formats such as HD (1920×1080), 4K (3840×2160), square social posts (1080×1080), A4 print (2480×3508 at 300 DPI), and more. Canvas size can also be adjusted after starting without losing your existing artwork.