Drawing Menu

Activates a drawing tool including:

Select, Contour Editor, Pencil Editor, Cutter, Smooth Editor, Perspective, Envelope, Reposition All Drawings, Drawing Pivot, Brush, Pencil, Text, Eraser, Dropper, Morphing, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Polyline, Paint, Ink, Repaint Brush, Close Gap, Stroke, Edit Gradient/Texture, Hand, Zoom and Rotate View.

These drawing tools are available on the Tools toolbar.

Clean Up

Opens the Remove Dirt dialog box where you can specify the number and size of dots removal from a selected drawing.

Opens the Remove Hair dialog box where you can specify the number and length of hairs for removal from a selected drawing. This removes any small strokes created in the Colour Art layer from very thick lines or filled zones. Increase the value to select larger strokes for removal from the drawing.

Closes small gaps in a drawing by creating small, invisible strokes between the two closest points to close the colour zone. You do not need to trace directly over the gap. You can draw it a few millimeters away. The two closest points automatically close the gap.

Removes any art inside a selection. It is recommended that you clean your Colour Art level as well. If you have a stroke accumulation in the Colour Art, it can result in large output files, especially if you work in high definition resolutions.

Removes any art inside all drawings selected with the Permanent Selection option in the Select tool.

Removes any art existing outside a selection. It is recommended that you clean the Colour Art level as well. If you have a stroke accumulation in the Colour Art, it can result in large output files, especially if you work in high-definition resolutions.

Removes any art outside all drawings selected with the Permanent Selection option in the Select tool.

Unpaints any art existing inside a selection.

Unpaints all art contained inside a selection on all the drawings within the same layer.

Unpaints any art existing outside a selection. If no selection have been drawn using the Select tool, the entire drawing will be unpainted.

Unpaints all art outside a selection on all the drawings within the same layer.

Repaints any art inside a selection.

Repaints any art inside a selection on all the drawings contained within the same layer.

Repaints any art outside a selection on all the drawings contained within the same layer.

Convert

Converts the selected centreline pencil strokes into contour strokes brush lines.

Converts selected contour strokes into centreline pencil strokes. The brush stroke thickness will be lost.

Converts the selected invisible line to a pencil line.

Text is treated as a single drawing object. This separates the text so each character becomes an individual drawing object you can select and modify independently.

Optimize

Merges drawing objects and brush strokes into a single layer. If you draw new lines to fix a drawing or line with many brush strokes, it can be useful to flatten them all into a single shape. By default, lines are drawn one on top of each other. If you intend to repaint the lines or modify their shape, it will be easier if they are flattened.

Smooths selected drawing strokes and removes extra points.

Adds a permanent invisible line around a shape that was drawn directly in Harmony. This allows you to unpaint lines with the Paint tool but maintain the shape of the lines, should you need to repaint later.

Remove any permanently invisible lines that were created while scanning and vectorizing drawings or manually adding contour strokes. This is useful for removing the intersection triangles created during vectorization.

Removes strokes inside painted area. This option only works after the painted drawing is flattened.

When you import and vectorize as texture (colour) a high resolution image, the size of your drawing can be heavy. You can reduce the size and resolution of the textures in a drawing.

Transform

Flips the current selection horizontally.

Flips the current selection vertically.

Rotates the current selection 90 degrees clockwise.

Rotates the current selection 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

Rotates the current selection 180 degrees.

Arrange

Lets you duplicate the drawing and work on a copy of it. This lets you modify an existing drawing but retain the original. When duplicating a drawing, the selected cell is replaced with the new drawing. The exposure of the original drawing that was on the current cell is removed. The original drawing is not deleted from the project folder or other cells in which it is exposed.

Permanently removes selected drawings. Once you save your project, these drawings cannot be recovered.

Lets you give a selected drawing a new name.

Lets you rename a drawing sequence with a prefix, which can be quite useful for cut-out puppet breakdown and deformation animation. This applies to any deformation work done in pre-Harmony 12 versions.

Lets you select drawing elements and painted areas with the same colour as the currently selected colour in your colour palette.

Every selected stroke in the Camera view is placed on separate layers; one layer per stroke. If artwork is composed of several strokes, you must group them to put them on the same layer.

This operation cannot be done in the Drawing view.

Lets you use the outline you traced on one of the four embedded layers (line art, colour art, overlay, underlay) and create invisible strokes to paint your drawings on separate layers. This provides more inking and painting flexibility.

You can also configure this option to create the invisible strokes on any of the four embedded layers.

Useful for brush strokes, creates triangular breaks at natural line intersections. These intersections are the probable locations where colour line breaks may occur, such as where a sleeve meets a hand.

This makes it easier to soft trace lines in different colours when there are flattened or unflattened clean brush strokes.

Fills colour based on currently selected colour swatch on different drawing layers (overlay, underlay) so overlapping lines are more visible during a line test.

This feature is very useful when you need to have a full resolution of a bitmap image (such as imported bitmaps as .psd or .tga for the background) for tracing to create a matte directly in Harmony.

By default, Harmony creates small thumbnail images when imported as bitmap in order to increase performance by using a small thumbnail image instead of using the original large size bitmap for animation work in Harmony. This will make difficult to view details or trace due to the low resolution (blurry). This option temporary increases the resolution of bitmaps up to their original bitmap resolution to make tracing easier.

When a cell is selected in the Timeline or Xsheet view, displays the previous drawing.

When a cell is selected in the Timeline or Xsheet view, displays the next drawing.

When a cell is selected in the Timeline or Xsheet view, displays the previous layer.

Once a cell is selected in the Timeline or Xsheet view, you can navigate between the drawings, frames, and layers. Displays the previous drawing, next drawing, previous layer or next layer.

When a cell is selected in the Timeline or Xsheet view, displays the next layer.

Colour Protection

Temporarily enables/disables the Colour Protection feature so you can quickly correct wrongly inked or painted areas under protected colour without readjusting the Current Colour Protection option.