You've found the best YoVille® whiteboard picture drawing site on the web. There are
694 images waiting for you to download and draw, all for FREE!!.
A popular Zynga® game, YoVille® has a flourishing whiteboard art community. Originally,
the pictures could only be drawn by hand, but around Christmas 2009 I developed a scheme for
drawing onto a whiteboard using a heavily processed image and a fairly simple computer program.
More recently, with some help from a friend, it became possible to make better resolution pictures
and finally an extended palette of colours drawn much more quickly than my first efforts.
This site is a collection of image requests from YoVille® players over a period of eight months.
The current version of the YoPainter program now works with Firefox 4, but there are a few problems.
For now, if you have Firefox 3.6.18 or below already installed, wait to upgrade to Firefox 4 if you
want to keep drawing pictures reliably using YoPainter. If you don't have Firefox installed, try and find the installer
for Firefox 3.6.18. It was on this page when I wrote this:
Firefox 3.6.18
News
| 14th Jul 2011 | Updated Programs |
| | Changed the code to find the whiteboard, again. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.1.5. |
| 4th Jul 2011 | Updated Programs |
| | Fixed problem with not finding the whiteboard on win7 machine. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.1.4. |
| 3rd Jul 2011 | Updated Programs |
| | Fixed problem with 16-bit video-display mode not finding the whiteboard. Drawing on someone else's whiteboard works again. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.1.3. |
| 29th Jun 2011 | Updated Programs |
| | Updated the memory scanning code, moved logfile and settings directory into 'My Documents/yopainter/'. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.1.2. |
| 25th Mar 2011 | Updated Programs |
| | Updated the drawing program to work (kinda) with Firefox 4. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.1.1. Compatibility with Firefox 3.6.X was preserved, and is the preferred Firefox version to use for now. |
| 23rd Jan 2011 | Updated Programs |
| | Updated the drawing program so that if another instance is already running, it displays a message. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.1.0. |
| 20th Jan 2011 | Updated Programs |
| | Updated the drawing program so that it only looks for 'YoVille' in the Firefox title. Should make it more likely to work on non-English configurations. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.9. |
| 15th Jan 2011 | 4-Board pictures! |
| | Added a 4-board picture category |
| 6th Jan 2011 | 500 pictures! |
| | Finally hit the 500 mark. Check-out the new neon-sign images under Logos. |
| 5th Jan 2011 | Updated programs |
| | Updated the drawing program so that it can draw some pictures using horizontal strokes. Good for pictures with fake vertical colour gradients in the background. Added a few boards using the new (old) method. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.8. |
| 30th Dec 2010 | The site is now FREE!!! |
| | We didn't make much money so we've decided to make all our pictures free to download and draw. Thanks to all our former paying members for their encouragement and support. |
| 25th Oct 2010 | Fixed problem with low memory/slow PCs |
| | The scan to find the current colour memory location was missing a couple of tricks and consequently slow on certain systems. (Thanks Rj!). All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.7. |
| 23rd Oct 2010 | Fixed problem with 'short' displays |
| | On PCs with low vertical screen resolution, YoPainter was failing to detect the whiteboard even though it was sufficiently visible. Changed the threshold to more nearly match the required visible whiteboard height. (Thanks Rj!). All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.6. |
| 22nd Oct 2010 | Fixed the 'Resume' button |
| | Didn't test the last fix properly! All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.5. |
| 21st Oct 2010 | Can't find Whiteboard bug fixed! |
| | Finally found and fixed the bug related to finding the whiteboard. It manifested itself when add-on toolbars were present, something I don't normally have. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.4. |
| 14th Oct 2010 | More Free Pictures! |
| | Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson and Stewie single-board pictures are now FREE! |
| 12th Oct 2010 | More Halloween Pictures! |
| | Added lots of new Halloween pictures - check them out! |
| 24th Sep 2010 | Halloween Pictures! |
| | Added some early Halloween pictures and a few flags. |
| 19th Sep 2010 | Minor Issue |
| | It appears that the programs no longer allow you to draw onto someone elses whiteboard, if it's unlocked. I will work on fixing this soon, as it's a fun feature. |
| 18th Sep 2010 | Back to Normal |
| | I've now modified the programs to handle the new whiteboard. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.3. |
| 17th Sep 2010 | Changes to the YoVille whiteboard! |
| | The whiteboard changed and broke all the downloads. |
| 7th Sep 2010 | Latest updates |
| | Added more double-board pictures. Reworked the website a bit. |
| 1st Sep 2010 | 2 board pictures |
| | Started adding 2-board pictures to the site: 2 Board Pictures. |
| 27th Aug 2010 | Added a few pics |
| | Added some more 'Scream' pictures. |
| 22nd Aug 2010 | Added new images |
| | Added some more pictures including a few free ones. |
| 16th Aug 2010 | More site updates |
| | Added more pictures including a couple of free ones. |
| 14th Aug 2010 | Video Demo available |
| | Finally got a video demo together. Added more pictures. |
| 11th Aug 2010 | More site updates |
| | Fixed a bug in the executable settings. Should now remember it's position correctly. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.2. |
| 10th Aug 2010 | Site Updates |
| | Added more images. Fixed a minor problem with the mouse-capture feature. All executables regenerated and are now version 1.0.1. |
| 8th Aug 2010 | Added more new images |
| | Added a variety of new images to the catalog including some free ones. Check them out! |
| 7th Aug 2010 | Checkout the New images page |
| | Added a page showing the latest new images. Added some more images including one new free one. Have Fun! |
| 4th Aug 2010 | Membership signup revamped |
| | Now possible to make a one-off payment with a credit-card. No PayPal account required. |
| 3rd Aug 2010 | Downloads reported to work on Vista |
| | Thanks to the efforts of one of our recent visitors (V), it appears that the downloads work OK on Windows Vista. Good News! |
| 1st Aug 2010 | Today the site went live for the first time! |
| | Check out the free images, download and draw them on your own whiteboards. If you like what you see, signup as a member and download all our pictures. |
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