About Mirror View
A recurring challenge for artists is to draw characters and objects with their elements properly aligned and with respect to their proportions and shapes. While drawing, the eye tends to get used to the imperfections in the shapes and proportions in your artwork, making it hard to spot and correct them. A common trick to avoid this pitfall is to flip your artwork horizontally. This allows you to look at your artwork as if you were looking at it for the first time, making all the mistakes in shapes, positioning and proportion obvious to your eye.
Using the Mirror View command, you can temporarily flip the drawing space horizontally
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Click anywhere on the Camera or Drawing view to set the focus on the view you're drawing in.
TIPYou can click on a view's tab to set the focus on it without clicking on anything inside it.
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Do one of the following:
- In the Camera or Drawing toolbar, click on the Mirror View button.
- In the top menu, open the View menu and select Mirror View.
Everything in the Camera or Drawing view will now appear flipped horizontally. A small overlay with the text Mirror View appears in the top-left corner of the drawing space to help you remember that you are working in Mirror View.
You can add a button to enable and disable Mirror View to your Camera or Drawing view toolbar. To customize a toolbar's buttons, right-click on the toolbar and select Customize.
The Customize option will only appear if you click the upper part of the toolbar. For the upper part of the toolbar to appear, select one of the following toolbars:
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Alignment Guides
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Clips and Tracks
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Keyframes and Control Points
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Pen Settings
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Scripting
The Customize option will only appear if you click the area above the toolbar
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Click anywhere on the Camera or Drawing view to set the focus on the view you're using to draw.
TIPYou can click on a view's tab to set the focus on it without clicking on anything inside it.
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In the top menu, open the View menu and select Mirror View.
Everything in the Camera or Drawing view will be unflipped. The "Mirror View" overlay will disappear.