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Creating Tool Presets
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You can create your custom tool presets to quickly access brushes and pencils settings and colours you use frequently.
How to create a tool preset
- In the Tools toolbar, select a tool, for example the Brush tool.
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- To set a specific colour for your preset, in the Colour view, select the colour swatch to link to the tool.
NOTE: When using a tool preset in a scene that is not using the assigned colour swatch, a colour recovery dialog box appears prompting you to add the colour to the scene.
- In the Tool Presets toolbar, click the New Tool Preset button.
- In the New Preset dialog box, in the Name field, type a name for your new preset.
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- (Optional) From the Shortcut menu, set a keyboard shortcut to quickly access your preset. By default, the shortcuts are unassigned. To assign a keyboard shortcut, select Edit > Preferences > Shortcuts > Tool Presets (Windows) or Harmony Premium > Preferences > Shortcuts > Tool Presets (macOS).
- When you select an option, it will take effect when you use the tool preset. If an option is deselected, then using a tool preset will not override your current settings.
- Colour: Saves the current colour into the tool preset.
- Click OK.
Time Estimated 15 mins
Difficulty Level Beginner
Topics List
- About the Brush Tool
- Creating a Solid Brush
- Creating a Textured Brush
- Configuring a Textured Brush Tip
- Configuring Smoothing for a Textured Brush
- Configuring a Brush with a Paper Texture
- Centerline Editor
- Reshaping Brush Strokes
- Flattening Drawings
- Activity 1: Sketching a Character using Textured Vector Brushes
- About Tool Presets
- Creating Tool Presets
- Updating Tool Presets
- Activity 2: Creating Sketch and Clean Up Tool Presets
- About Vector and Bitmap Layers
- Adding Bitmap Layers
- Manipulating Bitmap Artwork
- Activity 3: Sketching a Character using Bitmap Brushes
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