Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads

The Studio tool appears to be a showcase for their paid graphic library (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polotno.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polotno.dev&#x2F;</a>). As a designer&#x2F;dev the library is definitely addressing a hole in the market where libraries like fabric.js and konva aren’t serving: customer support (esp enterprise) and feature requests.<p>Coming from Teespring and recently at Figma, I’ve seen both sides of this problem: home rolling a teeshirt maker in canvas and also trying to use parts of an editor at Figma for marketing (wasn’t decoupled enough). I’m excited to see where this team takes this and grows.

This is an excellent start, but the big selling point (at least for me) of tools like Canva is the myriad of templates to start from.

Looks really good!!!<p>Consider (down the dev road) export options that optimize the image, like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinypng.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinypng.com&#x2F;</a> (I have no affiliation w&#x2F; them, other than as a user).

Potentially a bug that I found. When I add an icon and click &quot;Flip Horizontally&quot; or &quot;Flip Vertically&quot;, the icon appears very blurry and a little pixilated.<p>Using Firefox on Manjaro.

Very nice. However, it took a moment to realise that you cannot drag objects to the canvas but have to click on them first. Then you can move them around.

It is great, well done.<p>error -&gt; pdf export doesn&#x27;t work as intented when canvas size changed. scales page elements to fit predefined (I think) page size.

Really clean and good! Bookmarking the website now.

The title seems a little disingenuous, as Canva does not have ads or require signup.

so many features missing to be considered Canva-like, hopefully it can evolve into fitting that description but now I think it is a stretch and a little misleading to make the comparison.

After playing around with it for a bit, I really love it!<p>One thing I found myself needing: Is there a way to manage the z-index of your layers? (e.g. send layer to back, etc)

Even on a mobile device it&#x27;s neat Well done

Actually works decently on mobile (iOS chrome)

Really nice! It looks like there is a typo in the title of the site: &quot;fee&quot; instead of &quot;free&quot;

Nice.. but what makes Canva valuable isn&#x27;t the tool itself.. It&#x27;s the templates. Add some templates

Looking good so far! Excited to implement it in my next project

Well done, mate! Truly a wonderful job.

Why would I ever use this over figma?

looks good! I take it you&#x27;re the developer of konva as well?

Looks neat