Pencil Editor Tool Properties

Defines the maximum size of your drawing tool. This parameter defines the width of the stroke.

Defines the minimum size of your stroke as a percentage of the maximum size. If you do not have pressure sensitivity from a pen table, the minimum size value will be ignored.

You can adjust the start, end, and joint style of a pencil line.

• Start: Lets you select the style of the start tip, which is the first tip you drew. You can choose between Round or Flat style.
• End: Lets you select the style of the end tip, which is the last tip you drew. You can choose between Round or Flat style.
• Join: Lets you select the joint style. The joints are where the line curves abruptly. You could also define the Join style as the corner style. You can choose between Round, Mitre and Bevel style.

Harmony provides a variety of pencil presets and thickness stencils and also lets you create and save your own. It is a good idea to create and save pencils with precise sizes and parameters when you draw and design for efficiency and consistency.

A thickness stencil saves the thickness information across the length of the line. When drawing with a thickness stencil, the pressure sensitivity of the tablet is discarded. A thickness stencil can be used while drawing, or applied afterwards.

You also have the possibility to apply different textures to your lines by either using the default presets or importing your own —See About Pencil Line Texture. .

You can export the pencil presets that you have created and import those that others have created. This is a good way for you and project collaborators to keep a consistent look for the project.

Allows to create a new preset from the selected pencil line.

Allows you to delete your custom presets.

Allows you to rename a custom preset.

Allows you to display the presets as small square thumbnails, large square thumbnails or a list of stroke preview.

You can add a pencil texture to your preset preferences.

Adds a new custom pencil texture to the list.

Harmony provides a variety of pencil texture presets and also lets you create and save your own.

The Smooth operation lets you smooth out selected drawing strokes and remove extra points.

• From the top menu, select Selected > Smooth or press Alt + Shift + S.

The Pump Pencil Pressure option is used to increase the line thickness of a selected area on a pencil line.

The Deflate Pencil Pressure option is used to decrease the line thickness of a selected area on a pencil line.

Pencil lines are central vector lines and it might be difficult to match pencil line’s tips properly to align them and make it look like it is one single line. With the Select tool, you can select several pencil lines and merge them as one single object using the Merge Pencil Lines option. The ends of your lines are adjusted to form one single line.