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What’s new

What’s new

Improvements
What’s new
Lagoon preferences
Preferences
for changing not only the lagoon, but also marking menus has been
added. Create your own marking menus, populate the lagoon with the
options you use most frequently. If you never use a tool, take it
out and replace it with one you do. This tab gives you complete
control over these domains.
In addition to all this,
now when you’re working, you can right-click to access a virtual floating
lagoon. It uses the setting from the Lagoon Preferences.
These setting are saved to an .xml file, so you can save them to a
portable hard drive, take them with you to use on any machine, and
always have your custom setup.
Customizing lagoon icons
Click
here to watch a demo.
Change
the icons displayed in the lagoon, using the top section of the Lagoon
Preferences.
- For PC users,
select Edit > Preferences.
For Mac users,
select SketchBook Pro > Preferences.
- Click the Lagoon tab.
- In the lagoon section, click an icon
on the lagoon.
- Click the icon you want in its place.
The icon changes.
Custom marking menus
You can also
customize the marking menu for an icon in the lagoon, adding tools
that you commonly use. Once done, you can use clutch keys or right-click
to access these custom marking menus without visiting the lagoon.
Lagoon position |
Mouse |
Stylus |
Hub menu |
Press 1 and right-click
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Press-hold 1 and pen-down
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Press 2 and right-click
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Press-hold 2 and pen-down
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Press 3 and right-click
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Press-hold 3 and pen-down
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Press 4 and right-click
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Press-hold 4 and pen-down
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Press 5 and right-click
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Press-hold 5 and pen-down
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Press 6 and right-click
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Press-hold 6 and pen-down
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In the Lagoon
Preferences, at the bottom of the Default
SketchBook Tools list, in the DIY Brushes section,
all Do-It-Yourself brushes created
are listed. Now, you can add them to any custom marking menu.
Changing a lagoon icon
marking menu
Click here to watch a demo.
- With an icon selected in the lagoon section
of the Lagoon Preferences, click a
tool in the Select Menu Location section.
This displays the name of the tool in the Default SketchBook Tools section.
- Scroll through the list of tools and
select one to replace the current tool.
- Click OK. The marking
menu updates, changing the tool icon displayed.
Resetting your preferences
Click
here to watch a demo.
At any time, you can reset your preferences
back to their original state.
- For PC users,
select Edit > Preferences.
For Mac users,
select SketchBook Pro > Preferences.
- Click the Lagoon tab.
- Click Reset.
- Click OK. This
changes your lagoon and marking menus back to their original state.
Rulers
Two rulers have been introduced:
a straight edge and an elliptical.
Straight edge ruler |
Elliptical ruler |
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Only one can be used
at a time. They can be accessed through hotkeys, R for the straight ruler and E for the elliptical. Before painting,
the rulers displays guidelines; however, once you start painting,
they disappear. Once you finish painting, they reappear. The last location
of a ruler is saved, so that the next time you access a ruler it
appears at the same place.
When a ruler is activated,
at the top of the canvas, a hub appears. It provides the X and Y positional
coordinates, along with the angle of rotation. The elliptical ruler
contains additional A and B coordinates for the distance of each
side from the center of the ellipse. As changes are made to the
rulers, these values update.
Showing/hiding a straight
edge ruler
Showing/hiding an elliptical
ruler
Blur and Sharpen
These brushes enable
you to change the appearance of the area they are applied to in
the following way:
-
Blur
-
Softens the areas it’s
used on, making it appear out of focus.
-
Sharpen
-
Makes an image look crisper;
sharpening the areas it’s used on.
Simply paint over the
area with the brush to use it. Open their preferences, by either
double-clicking the brush or selecting Show Brush Properties
, to
change their size or strength. At any time, you can save these settings
or reset the brush to its default settings.
Blurring an area
- Open the Brush Palette and
select the Blur brush
.
- Paint over an area to blur it.
Sharpening an area
- Open the Brush Palette and
select the Sharpen brush
.
- Paint over an area to sharpen it.
Brush Manager
Use
the Brush Manager to organize and
manage your Do-It-Yourself brushes. Click-drag
to move a brush and change its position in the palette.
Organizing Do-It-Yourself
brushes
Click
here to watch a demo.
- Within the Brush Palette,
click the triangle
to open
the Do-It-Yourself brush section
of the palette.
- Click-drag and drop a brush over where
you want it. The previous occupant of that position moves to the
new occupant’s old position.
Texture Brush
Once a Do-It-Yourself brush
is created, you can add a texture to it, creating a texture brush.
You can set the shape and/or color and make a texture from a rotated
stroke or capture something on your canvas to use as a texture.
See Create a Do-It-Yourself brush.
Create a texture brush
In
the Brush Properties of a Do-It-Yourself brush,
you can create a texture brush by sketching a design and capturing
it. The captured texture can also be rotated. When capturing a texture,
one of the following Custom Texture settings can
be selected:
- Shape + Colors –
Uses the current paint color, as well as the selected shape, to
create your texture. Whenever the texture brush is used, it uses
the color set during creation.
- Shape – Creates
a texture brush with no assigned color. Each time the texture brush
is used, a different color can be set.
- Rotate to Stroke –
Dynamically rotates the texture in the direction of the stoke.
Creating a texture brush
Click
here to watch a demo.
- Create a new stroke or import an image
to use as a texture.
- Create a Do-It-Yourself brush.
- With a Do-It-Yourself brush
selected, click Show Brush Properties
to open Brush
Properties.
- Click Capture.
- From Custom Texture,
select either Shape + Colors or Shape and
or check Rotate to Stroke.
- Within the canvas, click the area to
be captured as thetexture. The display in Brush Properties updates
to show the texture and color.
NoteWhen capturing the
texture shape, SketchBook uses the current size of the
Do-It-Yourself brush.
If the complete shape is not captured, resize the
Do-It-Yourself brush,
then capture the shape again. See
Resize a brush.
Saving a texture brush
Once you have created
a texture brush, click Save at the
bottom of Brush Properties to save the
brush.
NoteAll
custom brush can be saved.
Modify a texture brush
There
are many ways to modify a texture brush, from resetting it, opening
its properties and changing settings, changing a stroke, or assigning
a permanent color to it. See the sections that follow for more information.
Resetting a brush
To restore the previous
setting of a Do-It-Yourself brush. All texture
brush data is deleted and the original properties settings are restored.
Click
here to watch a demo.
- Select the texture brush in the Brush
Palette.
- Click Show Brush Properties
to open Brush
Properties.
- Click Reset. The
original settings of the Do-It-Yourself brush
return and the texture is removed.
Changing texture brush
properties
Click
here to watch a demo.
To change attributes
of a texture brush.
- Select the texture brush in the Brush
Palette.
- Click Show Brush Properties
to open Brush
Properties.
- Edit the brush properties.
- Click Save to save
the changes.
Changing a texture
Click
here to watch a demo.
To change the stroke
used by a texture brush.
- Create a new stroke or import an image
to use as a texture.
- Select any pre-existing texture brush
in the Brush Palette.
- Click Show Brush Properties
to open Brush
Properties.
- Click Capture.
- Set Custom Texture options.
- Within the canvas, click the area to
be captured as thetexture. The display in Brush Properties updates
to show the texture and color.
- Click Save to save
the changes.
Setting color on a
Shape texture brush
Do-It-Yourself brushes
Now, you can export and
import Do-It-Yourself brushes. They
can be shared and taken with you to use on other machines. Email
brushes to friends to try. You created a brush on a Mac and want
to use it on Windows – no problem! Export the brush, save it on
a jump drive, then on the other machine, import it.
Exporting a Do-It-Yourself
brush
After a Do-It-Yourself brush
has been made, you may want to save it to use again or share with
colleagues. The Export button, in Brush
Properties, allows people working on different platforms
to share brushes. You can also bring these brushes to a client or
use when working on another machine.
- Create a Do-It-Yourself brush.
- Either double-click the Do-It-Yourself brush
in the Brush Palette or select Show Brush
Properties
.
- At the bottom of Brush
Properties, click Export. This
opens Save As.
- Name the file and click Save.
By default, the file will be saved in the CustomBrushes folder
in SketchBook Pro; however, you can change this.
Importing a Do-It-Yourself
brush
After a Do-It-Yourself brush
has been exported, you can import one of your own it to use again
or try one created by a colleague. It doesn’t matter what the platform
was that the brush was created on.
- Select any brush, other than a Do-It-Yourself brush.
- Open the Brush Palette by
clicking the brush in the Lagoon.
- In the Brush Palette,
click New Do-It-Yourself Brush
. This
opens the Create Do-It-Yourself Brush dialog.
- Click Import. This
opens Open. By default, it opens
to CustomBrushes folder
in SketchBook Pro.
- Select a custom brush file and click Open.
The brush will appear in the Brush Palette.
Symmetry
The Symmetry tool
enables
you to turn mirroring on and off as you sketch, using hotkeys. The X hotkey
displays a vertical axis of symmetry and Y a horizontal
axis. Anything drawn on one side of the axis is mirrored. The axis
of symmetry and a close button are always present. Regardless of
canvas orientation, the axis is always centered on the canvas.
Sketching with symmetry
Add Image: import into
a new layer
If you have an image
you would like to add that needs to be imported to a new layer,
in the general preferences, check Add Image: import into
a new layer.
Adding an image to a new
layer
- Select Edit > Preferences to
open the Preferences window.
- In the General tab,
ensure there is a check next to Add Image: import into
a new layer.
- Click OK. Now,
when you use File > Add Image..., the
image that is imported appears on a new layer.
Non-proportional scale
Layers and selected items
can both be non-proportionally scaled. You can scale in one direction,
instead of uniformly.
To non-proportionately
scale the layer, in the Transform Layer puck
highlight the top of the middle circle, then do one of the following
motions:
- Drag up to stretch the layer length.
- Drag down to squish the layer length.
- Drag to the right to stretch the layer
width.
- Drag to the left to squish the layer
width.
For selected items, in
the Transform Layer puck highlight
the top of the middle circle, then do one of the following motions:
- Drag up to stretch the item.
- Drag down to squish the item’s length.
- Drag to the right to stretch the item’s
width.
- Drag to the left to squish the item’s
width.
Rotate canvas
When drawing, use this
to reposition or rotate your sketch to create a more comfortable brush
stroking angle. Think of this as rotating your paper when drawing.
Use either of the following rotate canvas functions to change the
orientation of the image.
Rotating your canvas
Autodesk Area
This new feature, found
in the Help menu, takes you to Area (http://area.autodesk.com/sketchbook),
a place where you can link to SketchBook Pro and other Autodesk
communities.
Buy SketchBook Pro
This new feature, also
found in the Help menu, takes you to our
e-store, where you can purchase SketchBook Pro, from anywhere in
the world.