There are two things you have to master to create the best chart art:
1. The drawing tools available to you 2. Your chart settings
In this video, we show you how to create a blank canvas for chart art, infographics, and custom visuals. The first step to getting started is understanding how you can turn your chart into a blank canvas. Open your chart settings to get started. In your chart settings you can control the look and feel of your chart including the ability to hide everything, even the price line, and draw on an open canvas. You can also control the background, scales, and color of the price line to create something totally unique to you.
The simplest way to create a blank canvas is to uncheck each box in the chart settings and adjust the background color of the chart including the vertical and horizontal grid lines. Once you've created your blank canvas, you have the freedom to create and draw anything you want. You can use this canvas to make flow diagrams, pictures, and more. It's really up to you and your level of creativity. Here are some recent examples that convey interesting educational lessons or trading concepts:
How to manage risk
What is growth investing
How to think about the long term
The trader's journey
The final step to creating the best chart art and custom visuals, is to make sure you master your drawing tools, which are located on the left-side of your chart. You can use them to draw anything that comes to mind. It could be a flow chart, a cartoon or even a picture. You will want to make make the brush tool your best friend. It's how you draw freely across your chart as if you were holding a pen or a paint brush in your hand.
We hope this video tutorial helps you get started and we look forward to seeing the work you create.
Please leave any questions or comments below. In addition you can ask for product features or product requests and we will share them with the team.
Great information. How can we add external images on the canvas?
bit2bit
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@TradingView Great videos thanks!
I tried but couldn't find a way to upload external image.
Perhaps limit to certain image size to upload or total uploaded images size to a chart.
Hope that is some request for consideration. thanks!
TradingView
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@bit2bit@faisalqadeer We are working on some new features that will support this. Get excited 😁
Do you have any hints on keeping the chart art from deforming upon publishing? The chart dimensions for the published chart is different than the one I’m working with as I create the chart. When the chart is published, elements may be misaligned. I end up doing a lot of trial and error with a private idea first to get things right before publishing publicly. Is there an easier way?
If not, one nice feature for TV would be to provide a preview of what a published chart will look like when published. Then I can fix misaligned and overlapping elements before publishing.
ocaptain
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@drewby4321, Good point... I often have Text boxes where the box changes sizes and the fill color is no longer across 100% of the text.
TradingView
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@ocaptain, @drewby4321 Thanks guys. We will send this to the team to look into it and help as soon as possible. We will also message you on the side to get more details and send some tips or suggestions