Ellipse Tool Properties
When you select the Ellipse tool, its properties and options appear in the Tool Properties view.
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Previewing the Stroke |
The Preview area lets you see a preview of the selected or customized stroke. You can click on the Show Extended Properties arrow to display advanced customization parameters.
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Size |
Defines the maximum size of your drawing tool. This parameter defines the width of the stroke. |
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Shape |
You can adjust the start, end, and joint style of a pencil line.
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Presets |
Harmony provides a variety of presets 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. All tools using pencil lines share the same preset list. Therefore, the Polyline, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, and Pencil tools share the same preset list. |
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New Brush |
Allows to create a new preset. |
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Delete Brush |
Allows you to delete your custom presets. |
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Rename Brush |
Allows you to rename a custom preset. |
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Import Brushes |
Allows you to import a set of XML Harmony presets previously exported via the Export Brushes command. |
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Export Brushes |
Allows you to export Harmony presets to backup or import on a different computer. |
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Small Thumbnail, Large Thumbnail, and Stroke View |
Allows you to display the presets as small square thumbnails, large square thumbnails or a list of stroke preview. |
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Draw Behind |
When drawing on vector layers, the Draw Behind mode lets you paint behind existing art. By default, strokes appear over your work until you release the tool. |
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Automatic Filling |
Use the Automatic Filling option to automatically fill your shape with the selected colour as you draw. By default, the Shape tool creates the outline of an empty shape that you can later fill using the Paint tool. This option is unavailable for the line tool.
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Snap to Contour | Snaps your selection or point to any line you position it on. As soon as you move it close enough to another line, your point or selection will snap to it. | |
Snap and Align | Snaps the selected anchor point to any existing line while displaying temporary rulers as a guide that you can also snap your anchor point to. | |
Snap to Grid |
Snaps your selection following the currently enabled grid.
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Automatically Create Colour Art |
As you draw in the Line Art layer, the Automatically Create Colour Art option instantly creates the corresponding strokes in the Colour Art layer.
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Auto-Flatten Mode |
When enabled, the Auto-Flatten mode automatically flattens the new lines created with the existing artwork as you draw in the Drawing
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Using the Select tool, you can use select and remove a segment of flattened pencil lines. Overlapping pencil lines drawn with the Auto-Flatten mode are essentially cut into segments by the overlap and can be treated as individual lines. |
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Use Stored Colour Gradient |
The Use Stored Colour Gradient option makes your tool use the previously stored gradient position. This way, every new brush line or colour fill will use the stored gradient position. |
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Draw Circle | Enable this option to draw perfect circle (ratio 1:1) without holding any keyboard shortcuts. As an alternative, you can hold down the Shift key. |
Size and Smoothness Tab
You can access advanced properties by clicking on the Previewing the Stoke button in the Tool Properties view.
Tool Name | Description |
Maximum Size | Defines the maximum size of your drawing tool. This parameter defines the width of the stroke. |
Minimum Size |
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. |
Smoothing | Defines the number of control points added to the centre line. The fewer the control points the smoother (but less faithful) the line. |
Contour Smoothing | Defines the number of points on the contour share of your stroke. This will smooth out the bumps and waves on tour contour shape of your brush strokes. |
Shape |
You can adjust the start, end, and joint style of a pencil line.
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Texture Tab
You can access advanced properties by clicking on the Previewing the Stoke button in the Tool Properties view.
Icon | Tool Name | Description |
Copy to Preferences |
You can add a pencil texture to your preset preferences. |
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New Texture |
Adds a new custom pencil texture to the list. |
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Delete Texture | Deletes a texture preset from the list. | |
Rename Texture | Renames the selected texture to keep the list organized. | |
Presets |
Harmony provides a variety of pencil texture presets and also lets you create and save your own. |
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Pencil Texture Palette | Displays the colour palette assigned to hold the pencil textures. Use the Colour View menu to assign a new palette. |