Cutting Artwork in Several Drawings

You can use the Cutter tool to cut out and manipulate artwork in several drawings in the same layer at the same time. There are two approaches to doing this, both of which are options available in the Tool Properties view:

Apply to All Frames: When you draw a lasso or marquee in the Drawing views, it will cut out artwork in that area in all of the exposed drawings in the current layer.
Apply to Onion Skin Range: When you draw a lasso or marquee in the Drawing views, it will cut out artwork in that area in all of the drawings currently displayed in the Onion Skin. This method allows you to cut out and manipulate artwork in a specific range of drawings, and allows you to see the artwork you cut out in the Camera or Drawing view.

How to select artwork in a specific range of drawings

In the thumbnails list, select a drawing somewhere in the middle of the range that you want to edit.

In the Tools toolbar, click on the Onion Skin button to enable Onion Skin.

Using the Options in the View > Onion Skin menu, adjust the amount of previous and next drawings displayed in the Onion Skin until all the drawings you want to pain simultaneously are displayed.

The drawings included in the Onion Skin range will appear in red and green in the Drawing view.

In the Tools toolbar, select the Cutter tool.

In the Tool Properties view, click and hold on the Apply to All Frames button and, in the pop-up menu, select Apply to Onion Skin Range.

NOTE If this button is already set to Apply to Onion Skin Range, simply click on it to toggle it on.

In the Drawing view, draw a lasso or marquee around the artwork you want to select.

The artwork in the current drawing and in the drawings displayed in the Onion Skin will be cut out by the lasso or marquee you drew and will become selected.