Paint Tool Properties
When you select the Paint tool, its properties and options appears in the Tools Properties view.
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Lasso |
Sets the selection mode to Lasso, which allows you to select multiple items by drawing a lasso around them. TIPWhen this option is enabled, you can press and hold the Alt key to temporarily use Marquee mode.
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Marquee |
Sets the selection mode to Marquee, which allows you to select multiple items by drawing a rectangle around them. TIPWhen this option is enabled, you can press and hold the Alt key to temporarily use Lasso mode.
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Paint Modes |
The Paint tool has
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Paint and Remove Textures |
The Paint and Remove Texture option is used when you vectorized images as greyscale texture style. An image vectorized as texture is a mix of bitmap filling encapsulated in a vector-based frame. Painting a textured zones with the Paint tool will change the tint of the textured lines. Painting the textured zones using the Paint and Remove Texture option transforms the bitmap filling into a 100% vector based zone and fills it with a solid colour.
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Apply to Multiple Drawings |
The Apply to Multiple Drawings option is used for fast painting in hand-drawn animation. When you want to paint several drawings in a same layer at once, such as a walk cycle, you can enable this option and make a selection in the
You do not need to enable the Onion Skin preview to use this option. The option will stay enabled only for the next action. If you want to use it again, you must click on the Apply to Multiple Drawings button again, or press Alt + A. |
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Apply to All Visible Drawings |
The Apply to All Visible Drawings option is used to paint several drawings on separated layers on the current frames. If you have a character broken in several layers, you can enable this option to paint all your layers at once. The operation is only applied on the current frame. This option will stay enabled only for the next action. If you want to use it again, you must click on the Apply to All Visible Drawings button again. NOTEThis option is only available in the Camera view and does not affect symbols.
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Respect Protected Colour |
The Respect Protected Colour option is enabled by default. In your Colour view, you can protect some colour swatches to avoid repainting or unpainting the zones linked to that swatch. If you disable this option the Paint tool will not follow the protect colour rule and will repaint or unpaint the protected colours on your drawings until you enable the option again |
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Use Stored Colour Gradient |
When you paint a zone with a gradient or textured colour swatch, the gradient or texture’s position is set relative to the size of the zone you are painting. If you want the Paint tool to use a particular size and position, you must first store your desired position and size using the Select tool and then enable the Use Stored Colour Gradient option in the Paint tool properties
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Select Newly Painted, |
In the Paint tool properties, this option keeps a selection highlighted around the latest painted zone after using the Paint,
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Close Gap |
The Close Gap option has four modes available. When the option is enabled, Harmony will consume more resources while painting.
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