What s New Line and Shape tools Resize a brush Change your view Move, rotate, or scale a selected area How do I use layers? Tool selection Tool

What s New Line and Shape tools Resize a brush Change your view Move, rotate, or scale a selected area How do I use layers? Tool selection Tool summary Hotkey shortcuts Resize an image Create custom Do-It-Yourself brushes

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Contents Copyrights and Trademarks 2 What s New 5 New Preferences 5 Reset Color Palette 5 Reset Brush Palette 5 Reset Preference Settings 5 French Curves 5 Randomize 6 Random Color controls 6 Random Brush Size/Opacity 6 Random Brush Radius/Spacing 6 UI re-designs 7 Brush Library 7 Customize the Brush Palette 7 Colored layer assignments 7 Layer blending 7 Color Editor 8 Smudge 8 Steady stroke 8 Synthetic Paint 8 Introduction 9 Tool selection 9 Lagoon tool summary 9 Brushes 10 Choose a brush 10 Resize a brush 10 Changing brush opacity 10 Undo or redo a brushstroke 10 Clear brushstrokes 10 Clearing an area from the current layer 10 Swap between two brushes 11 Change brush properties 11 Effects brushes 11 Smearing an area 11 Blurring an area 11 Sharpening an area 11 Brush Library 12 Customize the Brush Palette 13 Brush Types 13 Smudging an area 13 Using Synthetic Paint 13 Create custom Do-It-Yourself brushes 14 Create your own brush icons 14 About the sample icon 15 Assign a custom icon to a Do-It- Yourself Brush 15 Create a Texture Brush 16 Saving a texture brush 17 Modifying a texture brush 17 Rename a texture brush 17 Randomize 18 Random Color controls 18 Random Brush Size/Opacity 18 Random Brush Radius/Spacing 18 Colors 19 Color Editor (Mac) 19 Pick a color from the screen (6) 19 Create a customized color palette (4) 19 Saving a customized color palette 19 Set the RGB (1) 19 Color Puck 20 Copic Color Library 20 Choose a color (3) 20 Select the complementarly color (4) 20 Create a custom color set (6) 20 Show/hide parts of the library (5) 20 Tools for Sketching 21 Line and Shape tools 21 Lines 21 Rectangles 21 Polylines 21 Ovals 21 Free 21 Steady Stroke 21 Flood fill an area 22 Flood fill an active layer 22 Flood fill visible layers 22 Change Flood Fill properties 22 Rulers 23 Positioning 23 Showing/hiding 23

Symmetry 23 French Curves 24 Stop stroke at center line 23 View, Edit & Save your Sketch 25 Change your view 25 Zoom in and move about 25 Zoom using a touch strip 25 View an image s actual size 25 Fit an image in the display 25 Select an area 26 Deselect an area 26 Copy your sketch 26 Move, rotate, or scale a selected area 27 Crop 27 Crop the canvas 27 Rotate canvas 28 Flip your canvas 28 Add an image 28 Resize an image 28 Change resolution 28 Fit a resized image onto the screen 28 Color correct images 29 Create a new sketch 29 Save your sketch 30 Save with an alpha channel 30 Save your sketch as an Adobe Photoshop file 30 Save your sketch as a PXD 30 Save your sketch as an image file 30 Save location options 31 Save locally 31 Save to icloud 31 Exporting 31 SketchBook landscape-oriented images to a device 31 SketchBook images to a device 32 Open a saved sketch 32 Open a sketch stored on icloud 32 Open a PXD 32 Use Layers 33 How do I use layers? 33 Select a layer 33 Persistent selection 33 Edit a layer 34 Layer blending 34 Organize layers 35 Merge two layers 35 Merge all layers 35 Colored layer assignments 35 Change the transparency of a layer 35 Annotate, Send, Print & Present 36 Text 36 Adding text 36 Editing text 36 Changing the transparency of text 37 Transforming text 37 Rasterizing a text layer 37 Email a sketch 37 Troubleshooting 37 Print a sketch 37 Adjust System & Program Settings 38 Customizing lagoon icons 38 Customizing marking menus 38 Resetting your preferences 38 Reset the Lagoon 38 Reset Color Palette 38 Reset Brush Palette 38 Reset Preference Settings 38 Hide or move the interface 39 Hiding or showing scroll bars 39 Changing the behavior of Page Up and Page Down 39 Changing the Maximum Number of Undos 39 Changing the default canvas size for new files 39 Change the brush cursor 40 Remove the brush outline 40 Improve performance 40 Wacom tablet troubleshooting 40 Installing the latest drivers 40 Using default tip pressure feel 41 Adjusting stylus responsiveness 41 Adjusting stylus responsiveness for one brush 41 Hotkey shortcuts 43 Artistic Acknowledgements 45

What s New This chapter introduces new features and a list of improvements & enhancements that can be found in this release of SketchBook Pro. New Preferences Reset Color Palette Resets the Color Palette to the factory default colors. All custom swatches are removed. Reset Brush Palette Resets all brushes to their original state. All custom brushes are removed. Reset Preference Settings Resets your preferences to the factory default settings. French Curves From the toolbar, tap to access the French curves for drawing a variety of smooth curves. Tap-drag to reposition. Tap-drag to resize. Tap to cycle through different French curves. Tap-drag to rotate. Tap to close.

Randomize Quickly lay down stokes with variations in color, size, and/or opacity, without the interruption of going into the Brush Properties or Color Editor to change these values. Random Color controls Quickly lay down varying colored strokes using the same brush. Set a hue, saturation, and/or brightness range for the active color. 1. Create a Do-It-Yourself brush or select a Traditional, Texture, Shape, or Splatter brush. 2. Tap to open Brush Properties. 3. In the Brush Color section: Drag the Hue Randomize slider to set the hue range of the stroke. Drag the Saturation Randomize slider to set the saturation range of the stroke. Drag the Brightness Randomize slider to set the brightness range of the stroke. 4. Tap Save. Random Brush Size/Opacity Quickly lay down strokes of varying size and opacity, using the same brush. Set a range for the size and opacity of a brush. 1. Create a Do-It-Yourself brush or select a Traditional, Texture, Shape, or Splatter brush. 2. Tap to open Brush Properties. 3. In the Brush Radius & Opacity section, drag the sliders to set the opacity and size range of the brush stamp. 4. Tap Save. Random Brush Radius/Spacing Quickly lay down strokes with varying stamp rotation and spacing, using the same brush. Set a range for the rotation and spacing of a stamp 1. Create a Do-It-Yourself brush or select a Traditional, Texture, Shape, or Splatter brush. 2. Tap to open Brush Properties. 3. In the Brush Advanced Properties section: Drag the Rotation Randomize slider to set the brush radius range. Drag the Space Randomize slider to set the brush transparency range. 4. Tap Save.

UI re-designs We ve redesigned the Brush Palette, Color Puck, Layer Editor, Lagoon, Toolbar, and pucks. Brush Library In the Brush Palette, tap to access the Brush Library. It contains an assortment of default brush sets, including a set of Copic brushes, Smudge brushes, and Synthetic Paint brushes. Create Do-It-Yourself brushes. Create custom sets to group and manage brushes. Export sets for others to use or save them to an external drive. Import and use brush sets created by others. Label your brush sets to help identify them. Customize the Brush Palette Replace default brushes with others to create a customized palette. 1. Tap, then select a brush from the Brush Library. 2. Tap-drag it onto the palette. Colored layer assignments Assign a color to a layer to makes it easier to distinguish one layer from another, create groups, or specify specific types of layers. In the Layer Editor, with a layer selected, tap-hold, then flick to assign a color. To un-assign a color, select. Layer blending In the Layer Editor, with a layer selected, tap the arrows to cycle through and select a layer blending method.

Color Editor To access the Color Puck, select Window > Color Puck. Tap-drag right and left to quickly change the saturation and up and down to quickly change the luminance of the color. Tap to access the Color Wheel and change the hue, saturation, and brightness and access the color picker. Smudge With this effects brush, paint over an area to blend it, simulating the effect on a finger dragging over the charcoal line of a drawing. Steady stroke Steady Stroke sets the offset between your cursor and the stroke, creating smooth strokes. In the toolbar, tap to create a smoother stroke as you draw. To adjust the settings, select Edit > Steady Stroke. This change affects subsequent strokes. To draw large smooth curves, increase Steady Stroke. To draw small curves with tight turn radii, decrease Steady Stroke. Note - Increasing Steady Stroke affects your stylus response time. When drawing short curves, if you have difficulties, lessen the smoothness setting. Synthetic Paint As you paint, this brush type dynamically blends colors that exist on the canvas. Adjust the paint load to effect the amount of color applied at the beginning of each stroke.

Introduction Tool selection Pick a tool using one of the following methods: Flick toward an icon to select it. Touch the stylus to an icon and hold, then flick through a tool. Tap a tool the toolbar to select it. Lagoon tool summary Use the lagoon to select tools. 3 4 1 2 5 9 6 7 8 1. Brush Palette (shows current tool) 2. Colors (shows current color) 3. Interface controls 4. View controls, canvas transform tools, rulers, layers, & symmetry 5. Brushes & palette 6. Colors 7. Selection, editing, & layer transform tools 8. Open, save, new, next & previous image 9. Undo/redo

Brushes Choose a brush In the Brush Palette or from the lagoon, tap a brush and start sketching. Select an eraser for modifications. Resize a brush To access the puck, select Window > Brush Puck. Hold down the B key or tap while in the puck and drag to the right to increase a brush s size or left to decrease it. To have the brush randomly change size as you lay down strokes, see Random Brush Size/Opacity. To change brush size and opacity with the puck, in Preferences > Brush, select Change both brush size and opacity. Changing brush opacity Use the O key to change the amount of paint applied by a brush. Tap a brush, then press-hold the O key as you drag up to increase a brush s opacity or down to decrease it. To have the brush randomly change size as you lay down strokes, see Random Brush Size/Opacity. Undo or redo a brushstroke To undo the previous action, tap or press Cmd+Z. To redo an action, tap or press Shift+Cmd+Z. Note - You can change the number of undos in the General tab of the Preferences. Clear brushstrokes Flick toward or press the Delete or Backspace key. Clearing an area from the current layer 1. Flick toward or, or press the M key, then drag over the area you want to clear. 2. Next, either flick toward or press the Delete key to remove the selected area.

Swap between two brushes Use one brush, then return to a previous one. After using a brush, select another, then flick toward to move between them. or press S Change brush properties In the Brush Palette, tap to access the Brush Properties window and change brush settings, such as wetness and slant. Effects brushes Smear, Blur, and Sharpen are brushes that add an effect, changing the pixels. Note - To change its size or strength, either double-click the brush or tap to access Brush Properties. Smearing an area Smear - Paint over an area to push the pixels of color into others, like plowing snow. Blurring an area Blur - Paint over an area to soften it, making the area appear out of focus. Sharpening an area Sharpen - Paint over an area to makes it look crisper; sharpening the areas.

Brush Library In the Brush Palette, tap to access the Brush Library. It contains an assortment of default brush sets, including a set of Copic brushes, Smudge brushes, and Synthetic Paint brushes. Create Do-It-Yourself brushes. Create custom sets to group and manage brushes. Export sets for others to use or save them to an external drive. Import and use brush sets created by others. Label your brush sets to help identify them. In the Brush Library, tap to access the following options: New Brush Set Create a new brush set. Rename Brush Set Change the name of the selected brush set. Export brush set Share brushes with people working on different platforms. Import Brush Set Load an exported zipped brush set file into the Brush Library. Delete Brush Set Remove the selected brush set from the Brush Library. New Brush Create a new brush and add it to the selected brush set. Copy Brush Create a duplicate of a selected brush and add it to the selected brush set. Delete Brush Permanently remove a selected brush.

Customize the Brush Palette Replace default brushes with others to create a customized palette. 1. Tap, then select a brush from the Brush Library. 2. Tap-drag it onto the palette. Brush Types There are many brush type, such as Smudge, Synthetic Paint, Copic, Do-It-Yourself, and Texture, found in the Brush Library. Smudging an area Paint over an area to blend it, simulating the effect on a finger dragging over the charcoal line of a drawing. Using Synthetic Paint As you paint, this brush type dynamically blends colors that exist on the canvas. Adjust the paint load to effect the amount of color applied at the beginning of each stroke.

Create custom Do-It-Yourself brushes There are three sets of custom brushes. Create more by copying a brush and changing its setting or creating a Do-It-Yourself brush. 1. Tap to access Brush Properties. 2. Tap to access the Brush Library. 3. Tap a brush set. 4. Tap-hold and flick to select it. 5. Select a brush. 6. Tap Create. Once you create a Do-It-Yourself brush, you can do the following: Adjust the pressure sensitivity - Set brush width or transparency according to the amount of pressure applied to the stylus. Double-tap a Do-It-Yourself brush and make changes to its Size to vary its brush thickness as the stylus pressure changes. Note - The brush size values are a rough approximation of pixel size, but can vary. For example, if lines are too thin to be drawn on the screen, they default to being wider. To resize a marker, try adjusting its opacity and stamp spacing. To make a bigger marker, set the opacity lower and the brush stamp spacing lower. Change the opacity - Set Opacity to vary brush opacity as the stylus pressure changes. To have the brush randomly changed opacity as you lay down strokes, see Random Brush Size/Opacity. Create your own brush icons Create your own unique icons to identify custom brushes. When exporting these brushes, the custom icons assignments appear upon import. Note - Custom icons cannot be assigned to default brushed, only brushes in the bottom part of the Brush Palette. Each icon you create must be a PNG image file that is 36 x 36 pixels. A custom brush icon not matching these criteria does not appear. For each icon, create three image files: One image of the icon itself, given a descriptive name. For example, MyBrush.png. This file name appears in the Icons list of the Identify Custom Brush window. One image for the icon in rollover state (that is, for when the cursor passes over it). This file must use the same name as the first icon, but with _ over added to the end (use the underscore character _ and not a space). For example, MyBrush _ over.png. One image for the icon in selected state (that is, for when it is the current brush). This file must use the same name, with _ press added to the end. For example, MyBrush _ press.png.

About the sample icon There is a sample icon called Sample, visible in the Icon list of the Identify Custom Brush window. This sample icon provides three image files for the icon in its three states. Find these files, named Sample.png, Sample _ over.png, and Sample _ press.png, in the following folder, once you select a Do-It-Yourself Brush, tap, then Edit: [your user folder]/library/application Support/Autodesk/SketchBook Pro/6.0/ Note - You will need to show hidden files and have administrative permissions. To access Library, in Finder > Go and tap-hold ALT. You will have to create a folder called BrushPresetIcons. Assign a custom icon to a Do-It-Yourself Brush Store any icon images you create in the BrushPresetIcons folder to see them in the Identify Custom Brush window. 1. Select a Do-It-Yourself Brush. 2. Tap. 3. In the Brush Properties window, tap Edit. 4. Select the custom icon. 5. Tap OK.

Create a Texture Brush Once a Do-It-Yourself brush is created, a texture can be added to it, creating a texture brush. You can set the shape and/or color and make a texture from a rotated stroke or capture something on your canvas to use as a texture. When capturing a texture, one of the following Custom Texture settings can be selected: Shape + Colors Uses the current paint color, as well as the selected shape, to create your texture. Whenever the texture brush is used, it uses the color set during creation. Shape Rotate to Stroke Creates a texture brush with no assigned color. Each time the texture brush is used, a different color can be set. Dynamically rotates the texture in the direction of the stroke. 1. With a Do-It-Yourself brush selected, tap Show Brush Properties to open Brush Properties. 2. Tap Capture. 3. From Custom Texture, select either Shape + Colors or Shape and/or check Rotate to Stroke. 4. Within the canvas, tap the area to be captured as the texture. The display in Brush Properties updates to show the texture and color. Note - When capturing the texture shape, SketchBook uses the current size of the Do-It-Yourself brush. If the complete shape is not captured, resize the Do-It-Yourself brush, then capture the shape again.

Saving a texture brush Tap Save at the bottom of Brush Properties to save the brush. Modifying a texture brush There are many ways to modify a texture brush, from resetting it, opening its properties and changing settings, changing a stroke, to assigning a permanent color to it. Changing texture brush properties - Change attributes of a texture brush. Changing a texture - Change the stroke used by a texture brush. Setting color on a Shape texture brush - Set a different color for a texture brush. Adjust the brush stamp for a Do-It-Yourself brush - Adjust the roundness, rotation, spacing, space randomize, rotation randomize, and brush edge of a Do-It-Yourself brush. Setting brush stamp roundness and rotation - Use the Roundness and Rotation sliders in the Brush Properties window to control the shape of the brush stamp. Setting brush spacing - Use the Spacing slider in the Brush Properties window to control the spacing between these stamps. Replacing a custom brush icon - In the Identify Custom Brush window, select an item from the Icon list ( Create your own brush icons ). Setting brush edges - Normally, the brush type you have selected determines this setting. To achieve certain effects, change it. Soft edges gives soft, feathered brush edges. For example, an airbrush. Solid edges gives hard edges that still bleed slightly. For example, markers or ballpoint pens. Hard edges are hard. For example, a calligraphy pen on high-quality paper stock, or lines from computer drafting software. Identify a custom brush - Rename a custom brush or eraser ( Rename a texture brush ), or change its icon appearing in the expanded area at the bottom of the Brush Properties ( Create your own brush icons ). Note - You cannot change the name or icon for the default brushes. Rename a texture brush 1. In the Brush Library, tap a texture brush. 2. Tap. 3. In the Brush Properties window, tap Edit. 4. Rename the brush. 5. Tap OK.

Randomize Quickly lay down stokes with variations in color, size, and/or opacity, without the interruption of going into the Brush Properties or Color Editor to change these values. Random Color controls Quickly lay down varying colored strokes using the same brush. Set a hue, saturation, and/or brightness range for the active color. 1. Create a Do-It-Yourself brush or select a Traditional, Texture, Shape, or Splatter brush. 2. Tap to open Brush Properties. 3. In the Brush Color section: Drag the Hue Randomize slider to set the hue range of the stroke. Drag the Saturation Randomize slider to set the saturation range of the stroke. Drag the Brightness Randomize slider to set the brightness range of the stroke. 4. Tap Save. Random Brush Size/Opacity Quickly lay down strokes of varying size and opacity, using the same brush. Set a range for the size and opacity of a brush. 1. Create a Do-It-Yourself brush or select a Traditional, Texture, Shape, or Splatter brush. 2. Tap to open Brush Properties. 3. In the Brush Radius & Opacity section, drag the sliders to set the opacity and size range of the brush stamp. 4. Tap Save. Random Brush Radius/Spacing Quickly lay down strokes with varying stamp rotation and spacing, using the same brush. Set a range for the rotation and spacing of a stamp. 1. Create a Do-It-Yourself brush or select a Traditional, Texture, Shape, or Splatter brush. 2. Tap to open Brush Properties. 3. In the Brush Advanced Properties section: Drag the Rotation Randomize slider to set the brush radius range. Drag the Space Randomize slider to set the brush transparency range. 4. Tap Save.

Colors Tap, then flick toward a color, tap, or select Window > Copic Library to access the Copic Color Library and select from over 300 colors. Note - If you flick, your brush will erase existing color pixels on that layer. Color Editor (Mac) 1 1. Tabs (various methods for picking colors): 2. Swatch (current color) 3. Slider 4. Customized palette 5. Color Wheel 6. Magnifying glass (color picker) Choose a hue or tints and the value (light). Specify a color using color gradients, such as gray scale, RGB, CMYK, or HSB values. Choose from a lists of colors (Apple, Developer, Crayons, Web Safe), or create your own list of colors. Choose a color from a spectrum of hues and values. Pick from 48 colors displayed as a box of crayons. 6 5 2 3 4 Pick a color from the screen (6) Tap to change the cursor to. Move over and tap a color on your screen. Create a customized color palette (4) Drag a color chip from the swatch to the palette at the bottom of the Color Editor. Saving a customized color palette The next time SketchBook opens, your customized color palette appears. Set the RGB (1) In the Color Editor, tap the RGB fields and add numeric values. The color in the Color Wheel changes to display a color with those RGB values.

Color Puck To access the Color Puck, select Window > Color Puck. Tap-drag right and left to quickly change the saturation and up and down to quickly change the luminance of the color. Tap to access the Color Wheel and change the hue, saturation, and brightness and access the color picker. Copic Color Library 1. Minimize/maximize Color set 2. Tabs 3. Color set 4. Current & complementary color 5. Minimize/maximize Custom set 6. Custom set Choose a color (3) 1 2 In the toolbar, tap or select Window > Copic Library to access the Copic Color Library. Use your Wacom touch strip, tap-drag the color set slider, or 2-finger drag to scroll between the pages of colors. Note - If using your Wacom touch strip, in the Wacom Tablet Properties, Touch Strip Function must be set to either Zoom or Auto Scroll/Zoom. Select the complementarly color (4) Tap a color chip to load its complementary color. Tap the Complementary color below the chip to select it. Note - Not every color will have an assigned complementary color. For those without, a selection of colors similar to its complementary or nothing will appear. 3 4 5 6 Create a custom color set (6) Tap-drag a color chip from the Color set or a complementary color into the Custom set. Show/hide parts of the library (5) Tap the arrows near the top and bottom of the library to show/hide parts of it.

Tools for Sketching Line and Shape tools In the toolbar, tap a Line and Shape tools, Line, Rectangle, Polyline, Oval, or Steady Stroke to help create shapes and lay down lines. Lines To draw a line, either tap Then, tap-drag. See Free for diagonal lines. Rectangles To draw a rectangle, tap Polylines To draw a polyline, tap the line to a solid line. or for a horizontal or vertical line, hold down the Shift key. and tap-drag to draw the shape. and tap to place each point. Dbl-tap the last point to change Ovals To draw an oval or circle, tap and tap-drag to draw the shape. Free To return to freestyle stroke mode, tap down the D key. Then, tap-drag.. To draw a diagonal (45-degree angle) line, hold Steady Stroke To draw uniform strokes, tap to create smoother strokes. Steady Stroke sets the offset between your cursor and the stroke, creating smooth strokes. In the toolbar, tap to create a smoother stroke as you draw. To adjust the settings, select Edit > Steady Stroke. This change affects subsequent strokes. To draw large smooth curves, increase Steady Stroke. To draw small curves with tight turn radii, decrease Steady Stroke. Note - Increasing Steady Stroke affects your stylus response time. When drawing short curves, if you have difficulties, lessen the smoothness setting.

Flood fill an area Fill the active or visible layers with color. Penguin (c) 1296613 Ontario Inc. Flood fill an active layer In the Brush Palette, tap Flood fill visible layers In the Brush Palette, tap, then tap an area to fill that area on that layer., then tap an area to fill that area in all visible areas. Change Flood Fill properties Change the tolerance to determine the range of color values affected when flooding a region with paint and fill gaps between the fill paint and the pixels creating the boundary of the fill. The minimum tolerance, 0 (zero), selects and fills only pixels of that color value. The maximum tolerance, 255, selects and fills all pixels regardless of the region. Dbl-tap or and tap to change flood fill tolerances. 5% 55%

Rulers Tap,, or or press R for the straight ruler, E for the elliptical ruler, and F for the French curve. Sketch using a circular motion close to or on the elliptical ruler. The stroke doesn t have to be perfect, since it snaps to the ellipse. Positioning Tap-drag to pivot the ruler using the opposite handle as the pivot point. Dbl-tap any outer handle to reposition the ruler horizontally or vertically. Tap-drag to move the rulers. Tap-drag to rotate the ellipse or French curve around its center. Tap-drag to equally scale the ellipse or French curve in all directions. Tap-drag to scale the ellipse in one direction. Tap,, or to cycle through different French curves. Dbl-tap any scale handle to change the ellipse to a circle. Showing/hiding To hide the ruler, ellipse, or French curve, tap the close handle. Symmetry Tap or press Y for horizontal symmetry. Draw on one side of the axis. It is mirrored to the other side. Note - The axis of symmetry always appears at the center of the window. Tap or press X for vertical symmetry. horizontal symmetry vertical symmetry Stop stroke at center line In Preferences > General, tap Stroke stops at the center line to stop your stroke at the line of symmetry.

French Curves From the toolbar, tap or press the F key to access the French curves for drawing a variety of smooth curves. Tap-drag to reposition. Tap-drag to resize. Tap,, or to cycle through different French curves. Tap-drag to rotate. Tap to close.

View, Edit & Save your Sketch Change your view Zoom in and move about Tap and flick toward or press and hold down the spacebar to access the puck. Move your stylus to the center to zoom and tap-drag to zoom in and out. Move your stylus to the outer ring and tap-drag to reposition your sketch on the canvas. Zoom using a touch strip Cintiqs and some tablets have a touch strip for zooming. Position your cursor over the area you want to zoom in or out of. Move your finger along the touch strip in an upward motion to zoom in or a downward motion to zoom out. View an image s actual size For the actual pixel size of an image, tap and flick toward or press Option+Cmd+0 (zero). Fit an image in the display To expand or shrink an image, tap and flick toward or press Cmd+0 (zero).

Select an area Select (M) Lagoon Select All Select (M) Toolbar Lasso Select (L) Toolbar Use one of the following methods: To select an area, do one of the following, then tap-drag to select the area you want: tap in the toolbar or press the M key tap in the toolbar or press the L key To select everything, select Edit > Select all or press Cmd+A. Deselect an area To de-select the area: Tap outside the area. Press Cmd+D. Select Edit > Deselect. Copy your sketch Use the Selection tools to select everything or just an area, then use one of the Copy tools. To copy: everything on a layer, select Edit > Select All or press Cmd+A. a rectangular area, use or press the M key, then click-drag to surround the area you want to copy. an irregular area, use or press the L key, then click-drag to surround the area you want to copy. the contents from the current layer only, flick toward or press Cmd+C. To paste, flick toward or press Cmd+V.

Move, rotate, or scale a selected area Use the Transform Layer puck to move, rotate, and scale content. Use one of the Selection tools, then the Transform Layer puck appears. Note - To move, rotate, or scale a selected area for all layers, merge the layers first. To move a selection, highlight the move outer circle. Tap, then drag to move the layer around the canvas. To rotate a selection around its center, highlight the rotate middle circle. Tap, then drag in a circular motion in the direction you want to rotate. To scale a selection bigger or smaller, highlight the scale inner circle. Tap, then drag to scale up or down to display the percentage scaling. To non-proportionately scale a selection, highlight the upper part of the inner circle. Tap, then drag in the direction you want scaled. Crop Use these tools to select an area to crop it by tap-dragging to surround the area. Anything outside the selection is deleted. Tap to remove unselected parts of the sketch. Crop makes a square or rectangular crop selection. Crop to Selection crops irregular, square, & rectangular selections. Crop the canvas Use Image > Canvas Size to set size of the canvas, using inches, cm, or mm. Tap the Anchor interface to specify how to crop the canvas.

Rotate canvas Rotate Image CCW To rotate the canvas counter-clockwise, select Image > Rotate Image CCW. Rotate Image CW To rotate the canvas clockwise, select Image > Rotate Image CW. Note - Keep selecting either of these to rotate the image 180 or 270 degrees. Flip your canvas Flip canvas Vertically To flip an image vertically, select. Mirror Canvas To flip an image horizontally, select. Add an image An image, such as a PXD from Pixlr, can be inserted onto the current layer or imported onto a new layer. To add an image, select File > Add Image, then select a file. Note - When adding a PXD image to a sketch, SketchBook flattens the file, without making any visual changes. To add an image to the current layer, ensure that in the preferences Add Image: import into a new layer is not checked. Note - Once an image added to a layer, it s baked into the current sketch. You can no longer rotate, scale, or move it on its own. If you do not like its placement, choose to undo it and try again. Resize an image Use Image > Image size to change the dimensions of the image in pixels, its resolution, or the document size. This change directly affects memory usage, quadrupling it if you double the pixel size. Due to memory requirements, there is a 6400 x 6400-pixel upper limit on image size. Change resolution Resolution is the number of pixels per inch or per cm. Leaving the document size the same increases the quality of the image and resolution; however, the memory size also increases. Fit a resized image onto the screen To expand or reduce an image to fill the screen, flick toward Fit to View or press Cmd+0 (zero).

Color correct images Use the Image > Adjust options for editing an image. contains the following options for editing an image. Brightness/Contrast Make colors pop. Increase the contrast to make colors richer. Decreasing it to wash them out for images that text can be placed over top. Increase brightness to bring out details from darker areas. Decrease it to melt away darker aspects of an image and shift the focus to things that are bright. Hue/Saturation Change the color range, increase or decrease the purity of a color or brilliance of the colors. Adds/subtracts color (hue) or adjusts the relative amount of color (saturation) in each pixel. Color Balance Remove unwanted color casts by lights or inclement weather conditions by adjusting the cyan, red, magenta, green, yellow, and blue in each pixel. Grayscale Change a color image to one that uses black, white, and various shapes of gray by removing all color from the image. Invert Switch the contrast of an image. Change black elements to white and white to black to create an opposite image. Convert color information for each pixel to its complementary color. Create a new sketch To create a new sketch, flick toward or press Cmd+N. Note - Use the Preferences window to set the default canvas size opened when you create new sketches.

Save your sketch When saving a file, you can set options for saving with an alpha channel and set the format of the saved file. Save with an alpha channel 1. Set the preference Transparent background to create an alpha channel and make the background of a layer transparent. 2. Select TIFF, PNG, or PSD when saving an image to save out the alpha channel. Important For this option to take effect, you must either select File > New and start a new project or quit SketchBook and restart. Save your sketch as an Adobe Photoshop file When saving, select the Adobe Photoshop PSD file type option. Save your sketch as a PXD Save images as PXDs to work on them in Pixlr. For images with colored text, to preserve the color, SketchBook converts the text to an image. To save a sketch that can be opened in Pixlr, select File > Save as type > PXD Files (*.pxd). Save your sketch as an image file When saving, select the type of image you want saved. Note - Only the TIFF and PSD image formats preserve layers. Saving them as any other image format flattens them. Only use Autodesk SketchBook Pro to read TIFF files containing layers. We do not advise you to open these images in other programs because we cannot guarantee layer preservation.

Save location options Choose where a project is saved - locally or to icloud. Use SketchBook Pro IOS Options to fit a file to a specific device. The format resizes the image and changes its orientation to fit the device. A maximum of 6 layers is preserved. Additional top layers will be merged. Enable icloud, a SketchBook preference, is on by default to automatically open and save to your icloud account. If you want to save files to your computer, click Go to Local Browser. Important You must enable the system preference icloud > Documents & Data to have access to icloud. Important Once Go to Local Browser is selected, to saving to icloud, you must select File > Save As. For saving a file without these options, see Exporting. Save locally Save a project to your computer. In the Save or Save As dialog, if you are not connected to icloud, browse to a location on your machine and tap Save. Files can be saved as any format. If connected to icloud, click Go to Local Browser. Save to icloud Save a project to icloud to access it from anywhere and any device or platform. icloud file management is only supported through the SketchBook icloud Gallery. 1. Enable the system preference icloud > Documents & Data. 2. In your SketchBook Pro General preferences, check Enable icloud to access icloud files and save to your icloud account. If you suspect your icloud Gallery could be full, we recommend saving your file locally and moving it to icloud once space is available. If a file is open on 2 or more devices, there is no notification. The last device to save will overwrite the file. Exporting SketchBook landscape-oriented images to a device When you export a layered landscape-oriented image from SketchBook Pro to an ipad or iphone, the image is cropped. The ipad maps the bottom left corner of the exported image to its bottom left corner. If the original layered image is wider than the ipad or iphone, do one of the following: set the canvas to the same resolution as the device before exporting take the image from DropBox or itunes, open it in any application that can open PSDs, then make changes to fit it to the device rotate your layers to change the image s orientation and ensure the canvas is no longer than the length of the intended device s canvas

SketchBook images to a device When you export an image with 8 layers from SketchBook Pro to a device, layers may be missing. The ipad2 has a limit of 4 high-resolution or 12 regular layers. Layers 5 and up from the original image are not loaded for a device with high-resolution layers. Turn off High-resolution canvas, then re-import the file. The ipad1 has 6 layers, so layers 7 and 8 are not loaded. Merge some of the layers before exporting for an ipad1 user. The iphone has from 3 6 layers, so some layers are not loaded. Open a saved sketch To open sketches of various formats, flick toward or press Cmd+O. Enable icloud, a SketchBook preference, is on by default to automatically open and save to your icloud account. If you want to open files to your computer, click Go to Local Browser. If you are not connected to icloud, browse to a location on your machine and tap Open. Open a sketch stored on icloud Access a project stored on icloud from anywhere and with any machine. If you are not connected to icloud, enable the system preference icloud > Documents & Data to get connected. Open a PXD Open an image from Pixlr in SketchBook. If the image uses a blend mode not supported by SketchBook, the Normal blend mode is used to replace it. To bring an image from Pixlr into SketchBook, select File > Open, then select a PXD file.

Use Layers Use layers to make changes to an image without modifying the content on other layers. Use multiple layers for drawing complex sketches or to test variations of a design. How do I use layers? 1. Flick toward to open the Layer Editor. 2. Tap-hold the middle of a layer to access layer tools, then flick toward any of the following: Add a layer (Cmd+L) Delete a layer Rename a layer Merge all layers together Merge with the layer below (Cmd+E) Lock and Hide or unlock a layer Show a layer Make a duplicate layer Select a layer In the Layer Editor, tap a layer to select and highlight it. All actions are applied to this layer, until another layer is selected. Note - Only one layer can be selected and active at a time. Persistent selection After selecting a region on the canvas, you can add, delete, or switch layers, while the marching ants created by the Select/Lasso/Crop tools stay active. Your selection is maintained.

Edit a layer With a layer selected in the Layer Editor, move, rotate, or scale the layer, mirror or flip its content, use the color correction tools, or add text. Note - Moving, rotating, and scaling a layer only affects the current layer. To move, rotate, or scale the entire canvas, merge all the layers first. To move, rotate, or scale a layer, flick toward or press-hold the V key and use the Transform puck. To do this to another layer, select a new layer and repeat. Note - If using the V hotkey, press and hold it down, as you tap the top of the middle circle, and drag up, down, right, or left. To flip a layer or mirror, use Image > Flip Layer Vertically or Mirror Layer. Layer blending In the Layer Editor, with a layer selected, tap the arrows to cycle through and select a layer blending method. Screen - Produces an overall lightening effect, by providing a softer lightening effect than Add. Each pixel on the layer is brightened by a value equal to or lesser than the value of pixels on other layers occupying the same location in the layer stack. This effect is opposite to Multiply. Tip - If the top layer uses tints (colors mixed with white), most of the colors from the layer below will be obscured. If it uses shades (colors mixed with black), more colors from the layer below to show through. Multiply - Produces an overall darkening effect to the layer appearance. Each pixel on the layer is darkened by a value equal to or greater than the value of pixels on other layers occupying the same location in the layer stack. It produces a similar effect to combining one or more photographic transparencies together and looking through them. Tip - If the top selected layer uses tints (colors mixed with white), more of the colors from the layer will show through. If it uses shades (colors mixed with black), most of the colors from the layer below are obscured. Add - Lightens the overall composition, similar to Screen, but more dramatically. Each pixel is brightened by a value equal to or lesser than the value of pixels on other layers occupying the same location in the layer stack. This is applied as a linear calculation. Tip - If the top selected layer uses tints (colors mixed with white), most of the colors from the layer below will be obscured. If it uses shades (colors mixed with black), more of the colors from the layer below to show through. Normal - Removes any color correction applied to the layer.

Organize layers Drag layers and reposition them and change the spacial position of objects and how they combine to create the overall composition. Once satisfied with layer order, they can be combined by merging two or all of them. In the Layer Editor, pen down on to drag the layer up or down. Release the stylus to drop the layer into position. Merge two layers Combine two layers together. Tap the upper layer and flick toward to merge it with the one below or press Cmd+E. Merge all layers Combine all layers to create a project with one layer. Flick toward to merge them, even hidden (which become visible) or locked ones. Note - Unhide all layers to be merged. Hidden layers will be lost. Colored layer assignments Assign a color to a layer to makes it easier to distinguish one layer from another, create groups, or specify specific types of layers. In the Layer Editor, with a layer selected, tap-hold, then flick to assign a color. To un-assign a color, select. Change the transparency of a layer Blend a layer with other layers using transparency. Full opacity Medium opacity (translucent) Transparent In the Layer Editor, with a layer selected, drag the slider to the opacity. Note - If a layer is not visible, check to see if the opacity is at 0%. To lock the transparency of a layer, use the marking menu and flick upwards toward. To unlock transparency, flick upward toward.

Annotate, Send, & Print Print images or email them. Annotate sketches. Present sketches to colleagues, clients, or friends. Text Use to create simple RTF text objects. Set the font, size, style, and color, select and position them, change their transparency, and use Edit Text Layer to modify them. Adding text 1. To add text, in the toolbar, tap. If in the Layer Editor, tap. 2. Start typing in the Edit Text Layer window. 3. Use the in-line editing tools to make changes to the text. See Editing text for more information. 4. Tap OK when finished. Editing text Through tapping the Font button in the Edit Text Layer window, you can access the following text editing tools: Collections Manage the list of fonts that appear in Family and see only the fonts you want. Create custom font collections. Use default sets to load only fun fonts or ones with fixed width. Load only your favorite fonts or those recently used. Family Select a font from the list. If a font family is not listed, change the Collections option to All Fonts. Typeface Choose from Condensed, Condensed Italic, Bold Condensed, Bold Condensed Italic typefaces. Size Set the size of the text. To set text color, click.

Changing the transparency of text The opacity of a text layer can be changed using the layer s opacity slider. Click-drag the opacity slider to change the transparency of a text layer. A A A Transforming text Once text appears in the middle of the canvas, you are in Transform mode. Move is set as the default transform. Use the puck to select a different mode. When rotating or scaling the text, SketchBook uses the center of the text as the pivot point. When scaling text, font size is changed, resulting in no visual quality change. Note - Font size determines how much you can scale a font. A font size of 12 cannot be scaled up as much as one set to 24. A font of 12 cannot be scaled down as much as one set to 5. To scale a font any further, return to the Text window and increase or decrease the font size. Rasterizing a text layer Change text into pixels to paint on the same layer. The Text layer is converted into a regular layer and its content is converted to pixels. Paint can be applied to this new layer. In the Layer Editor, flick. Note - When text is rasterized, Edit Text can no longer be applied. Troubleshooting If you get a message that you cannot email the image, check that: You have an email account set up on your computer. You have selected a default email application. You can launch your default email program from outside SketchBook. If your email program creates the email message, but cannot send the message, ensure that your email service provider is operational. (Refer to the documentation of your email program for further information.) Print a sketch Make printouts of your sketches by selecting File > Print.

Adjust System & Program Settings Create your own marking menus and populate the lagoon with the options you use most frequently. Right-tap to access a virtual floating lagoon. Customizing lagoon icons Change the icons displayed in the lagoon, using the top section of the Lagoon Preferences. Customizing marking menus Customize the marking menu for an icon in the lagoon, using the Lagoon Preferences to add tools that you commonly use. Once done, you can use clutch keys or left-click to access these custom marking menus without visiting the lagoon. Lagoon position Mouse Stylus First press 1, then left click First press 2, then left click First press 3, then left click First press 4, then left click First press 5, then left click First press 6, then left click Press-hold 1 and pen-down (left click) Press-hold 2 and pen-down (left click) Press-hold 3 and pen-down (left click) Press-hold 4 and pen-down (left click) Press-hold 5 and pen-down (left click) Press-hold 6 and pen-down (left click) Resetting your preferences At any time, you can reset your preferences back to their original state. Reset the Lagoon Resets the Lagoon to the factory default tools and marking menus. Select Edit > Preferences > the Lagoon tab, tap Reset. Reset Color Palette Resets the Color Palette to the factory default colors. All custom swatches are removed. Select Edit > Preferences > the Factory Defaults tab, for Reset Color Palette, tap Reset. Reset Brush Palette Resets all brushes to their original state. All custom brushes are removed. Select Edit > Preferences > the Factory Defaults tab, for Reset Brush Palette and Library, tap Reset. Reset Preference Settings Resets your preferences to the factory default settings. Select Edit > Preferences > the Factory Defaults tab, for Reset Preference Settings, tap Reset.

Hide or move the interface Use these tools to set what interface elements are visible. Displays the toolbar and lagoon and flips it to the left corner of the canvas. Display the toolbar and lagoon and flips the lagoon to the right corner of the canvas. Hide the toolbar and lagoon. Display the toolbar, but hide the lagoon. Hiding or showing scroll bars Tap the Canvas tab. Turn off Enable canvas scroll bars. Note - You can still use the Zoom and Move tool to view those parts of the image that are off the screen. Changing the behavior of Page Up and Page Down Some machines use the Page Up and Page Down keys differently for browsing to previous or next files. Tap the General tab, in the Page Up section, tap one of the following setting to set up the program behavior that works best for your system. Open next image Open previous image Changing the Maximum Number of Undos Changing the number of undos only takes effect once a file is created or another one is imported. We recommend you restart SketchBook. Tap the General tab. Enter the number of undos in Maximum undos. The maximum value is 75, but we recommend a lower value for optimal speed and performance. Changing the default canvas size for new files By default, the size of a new image is the size of the display. Use width and height of window - To specify a custom size. Enter the width and height in the fields provided (choose from pixels, inches, cm, or mm). Note - The maximum size is 6400 x 6400 pixels. Use width and height of window - To use the default display size again.

Change the brush cursor In your Preferences, set the type of display for the brush cursor. Remove the brush outline By default, a brush outline appears for the sharpen, blur, and smear brushes, eraser, and other low-opacity brushes such as the airbrush. This outline lets you see the size of the brush before you start drawing. In your Preferences, this can be turned off. Improve performance Some users may experience slower performance when Enable Rotate Canvas is enabled. This can be corrected by changing a setting in the Preferences, which turn off Enable Rotate Canvas. Tip - Press the 0 and 9 keys to rotate the canvas to the left of right, respectively. Optimize your files to work across devices If you intend to work between your Mac and SketchBook Mobile or SketchBook Pro for ipad, under File Format, select SketchBook ios, then tap Options and select a device to create a canvas size to ensure best results. Wacom tablet troubleshooting For users of either the Wacom Cintiq or Intuos tablet devices, who have experienced any of the following issues: Cursor offset (Cintiq) Cursor acceleration (dual monitor setups) Erratic pen input You may want to also read these articles at visit the following links: http://www.wacom.com/faqs/view.php?id=289 http://www.wacom.com/faqs/view.php?id=115

Installing the latest drivers If your Wacom device seems to work when you first plug it in, but you experience erratic behavior (for example, problems with stylus pressure or with drifting or offset of the brush stroke), you need the latest tablet driver. Note - If you switch from serial to USB devices, try uninstalling the tablet driver and reinstalling it. For the latest Wacom drivers, go to the Support area of http://www.wacom.com. Install a tablet driver only after you have plugged in the Wacom device, uninstalled the previous driver, and restarted. Using default tip pressure feel If you find that brush strokes change abruptly from too light to too dark as you vary the amount of pressure you apply to your stylus: 1. Find the installed Wacom drivers and double-clicking the Wacom Tablet icon to access this window. 2. To customized settings for other applications, add Autodesk SketchBook Pro to the list of applications with customized tool settings, which applies the changes only to it. 3. Move the Tip Pressure Feel slider to half-way between Soft and Hard. The shape of the pressure curve in the More Options display must be a diagonal line. It takes this shape by default when you move the Tip Pressure Feel slider to the middle. Note - For information about using SketchBook with Wacom tablets, see the section to follow, Adjusting stylus responsiveness. Default hotkey mappings Due to a Wacom driver issue, some users may not find the default hotkeys mapped. Through your Wacom Tablet Properties, manually set the hotkeys to correct this.

Adjusting stylus responsiveness Styli (pens) for various systems each respond differently to the pressure you apply. If you dislike the feel of your current stylus, do the following: Note - This setting affects brushstrokes for all pressure-sensitive brushes. 1. Select a pressure-sensitive brush, such as the pencil. Note - You cannot adjust stylus responsiveness, unless the current brush is pressure-sensitive. 2. Select Edit > Stylus Responsiveness. The Stylus Responsiveness window appears. 3. Move the slider to the right to increase the responsiveness of the stylus. As you move toward the Less end of the scale, the feel of the stylus becomes softer. You do not have to press hard to get dark and thick strokes. As you move toward the More end of the scale, the feel of the stylus becomes harder. Press hard to get dark, thick strokes. 4. Test your stylus on the canvas. Experiment with different types of brushes. Note - The Stylus Responsiveness window stays up while you test. Keep testing with different responsiveness values until the marks on the screen look and feel right. With heavy pressure, the markers and other heavier brushes tend to make dark, thick strokes. With light pressure, the pencils tend to make light, but visible strokes. Note - You may need to adjust the pen responsiveness each time you use a different tablet or stylus. Adjusting stylus responsiveness for one brush The Stylus Responsiveness window applies to all brushes. To create a brush that responds differently to the pressure you apply to the stylus, create a do-it-yourself brush and change its size and opacity levels. Note - Brush strokes can change abruptly from too light to too dark as you vary the stylus pressure. Setting the tip pressure feel to its default value corrects the abrupt changes.

Hotkey shortcuts Use this list to see the hotkey assignments in SketchBook. Icon Tool Name Hotkey Mac Hotkey Windows Swap Between 2 brushes S S Resize a brush B (hold down and drag) B (hold down and drag) Change brush opacity O (hold down and drag) O (hold down and drag) Change brush slant / (hold down and drag) / (hold down and drag) Increase brush size [ [ Decrease brush size ] ] Crop tool C C Cut Ctrl+X +X Copy Ctrl+C +C Paste Ctrl+V +V Undo Ctrl+Z +Z Redo Ctrl+Y +Y Lasso selection tool L L Selection tool M M Select All Ctrl+A +A Deselect Ctrl+D +D Ellipse E E Ruler R R Symmetry X X X Symmetry Y Y Y

Icon Tool Name Hotkey Mac Hotkey Windows Draw straight line Shift+hold as you draw Shift+hold as you draw New layer Ctrl+L +L Clear layer Backspace or Delete Backspace or Delete Move/Scale/Rotate layer V+hold V+hold Rotate canvas left 9 9 Rotate canvas right 0 (zero) 0 (zero) Pan/Zoom canvas Spacebar+hold Spacebar+hold Fit To View Ctrl+0 (zero) +0 (zero) Actual Size Ctrl+Alt+0 (zero) +Alt+0 (zero) Color Picker Alt Alt Hide UI T/Tab T/Tab Hide Lagoon Toggle Title Bar on/off New File Open File Print Quit Save Save As Preferences +J +Alt+J +N +O +P +Q +S +Shift+S +, Ctrl+J Ctrl+Alt+J Ctrl+N Ctrl+O Ctrl+P Ctrl+Q Ctrl+S Ctrl+Shift+S Ctrl+,

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