Select Tools > Arrange and one of the following:īring to Front: Moves the currently selected shape on top of all the others.īring Forward: Moves the currently selected shape one level higher. In the Drawing or Camera view, use the Select tool to select the drawing objects to reorder.
If you want to reorder layers in the Timeline view, see Ordering Your Layers and Ordering Parented Layers. This option will only reorder strokes within a drawing. You can reorder the shapes and strokes of a drawing. Rotate 180: Rotates the currently selected shape 180°. Rotate 90 CCW: Roates the currently selected shape counterclockwise 90°.
Rotate 90 CW: Rotates the currently selected shape clockwise 90°. Select Tools > Transform and one of the following:įlip Horizontal: Flips the currently selected shape horizontally.įlip Vertical: Flips the currently selected shape vertically. To select every shape in your drawing, press + (Windows) or + (Mac OS X). In the Drawing or Camera view, select the drawing object to flip using the Select tool.
Use the different Transform operations to apply a specific transformation, such as a flip or a rotation to a drawing shape selection. Overlapping shapes of different non-transparent colours are merged and cropped. Overlapping shapes of the same non-transparent colour are merged together. In the Drawing or Camera view, select the drawing objects you want to optimize using the Select tool. The transparent overlapping effect is preserved. If you have transparent shapes overlapping one another, they will not be merged or flattened. Unlike the Flatten option, the Optimize command merges the selected drawing shapes or strokes only if doing so will not change the appearance of the final image. The Optimize operation is used to merge shapes and brush strokes in the drawing into a single flat layer. When drawing with the Brush tool, you can also decide to instantly flatten the strokes as you draw them using the Draw Top Layer option. When they are flattened, the parts overlapped by a higher level layer shape are removed, in this case, leaving the blue circle cropped. The green circle on the right was painted on top of the blue circle on the left. In this example, the two circles overlapping one another were painted using two different transparent colours. Shapes of different colours remain separate. In this example, the two circles overlapping one another were painted using a transparent colour. Shapes of the same colour are merged together. To select all shapes in your drawing, press + (Windows) or + (Mac OS X). In the Drawing or Camera view, select the drawing objects to flatten using the Select tool. This means that if you have shapes or strokes of a transparent colour, you will lose the overlapping effect. The Flatten operation merges shapes and brush strokes of a drawing into a single flat layer. If you intend on repainting the shape or line or modifying it, it will be easier if they are merged together as one. If you draw lines to fix a drawing or a line with many brush strokes, or draw a complex shape from many different shapes superposed, it can be useful to flatten them all into a single shape because lines are drawn one of top of each other. They are used to merge shapes and brush strokes in the same drawing into a single flat layer. The Flatten and Optimize operations are similar. In the Drawing or Camera view, select a drawing object to smooth using the Select tool. The Smooth operation is used to smooth out a selected drawing object and remove extra vector points. Tools > Ungroup or press + + (Windows) or + + (Mac OS X). In the Drawing or Camera view, select a grouped object and select Grouping is reversible, you can always ungroup selected drawing objects and select the shapes independently. Your drawing objects are grouped and can be selected with a single click. Select Tools > Group or press + (Windows) or + (Mac OS X). To select all the shapes in your drawing, press + (Windows) or + (Mac OS X). In the Drawing or Camera view, select the drawing objects you want to group. In the Drawing Tools toolbar, click the Select tool. It is useful to be able to edit your drawing one shape at a time, but depending on the current task, it might be useful to quickly select a grouping of these strokes.For example, when you need to reposition or transform the entire head of a character, you do not want to drop the nose or an eye. In Toon Boom Studio, each stroke in a drawing can be selected independently until they are flattened, but then each different colour shapes still remain independent from one another. Toon Boom Studio provides many useful drawing and design options.