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- About Drawing Space Efficiency
About Drawing Space Efficiency
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Drawing can be time consuming and complicated if you don't take advantage of some of the time-saving features in Storyboard Pro. It starts with turning on the grid to help you determine the size and placement of objects as you draw. For your drawing tool, you can choose from a lasso or marquee type cursor.
With onion skinning, you can see the previous and next drawings, which is handy for referring to for the size, angle and position of the drawing in the current panel.
The light table lets you preview the previous and subsequent active layers in light colours. This is really useful for seeing other layers when designing or cleaning up your storyboard.
You can also quickly swap between two drawing tools by using keyboard shortcuts.
Everything you draw in Storyboard Pro is vector-based. When you draw in the Drawing
Time Estimated 5 mins
Difficulty Level Intermediate
Topics List
- About Drawing Space Efficiency
- Displaying the Grid
- About Quick Swap Shortcut
- Antialiasing OpenGL Lines
- Changing the Drawing Tool Cursor
- About Tool Presets
- Creating Tool Presets
- Updating Tool Presets
- Deleting Tool Presets
- Importing and Exporting Tool Presets
- Locking the Tool Preset Layer Selection
- Cleaning up with the Tool Presets
- Adding a 3D Object as a Rendered Image in a 2D Scene
- Activity: Using a 3D Object as a Reference in a 2D Scene
- Creating a Stamp
- Deforming a Drawing Using the Perspective Tool
- About the Text Tool
- Adding Text
- Formatting Text
- Resizing the Text Box
- Breaking Text
- Modifying Text
- Using the Select by Colour Tool