SketchBook Copic Edition

What’s New

Line and Shape tools

Resize a brush

Move, rotate, or scale a selected area

How do I use layers?

Tool selection

Tool summary

Copic Color Library

Adjust System & Program Settings

V2.0

Copyrights and Trademarks

Autodesk SketchBook Copic Edition v2

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What’s New

This chapter introduces new features and a list of improvements & enhancements that can be found in this release of SketchBook Copic Edition.

Copic Colorless Blender

When you turn on this option in the properties of a Copic marker, it turns that brush into a Copic Colorless Blender marker.

Improvements

Improvements have been made in the following areas:• Canvas - The grey border that appeared when rotating the canvas has been removed.

The canvas no longer enters into a frozen state. • Color Picker - It now consistently picks the correct color.• Surface Pro users - Users will not experience refresh issues with high DPI settings.

Introduction

Tool selection

Pick a tool using one of the following methods:

• Flick toward an icon to select it.

• Touch the stylus to an icon and hold, then flick through a tool.

• Tap a tool the toolbar to select it.

Tool summary

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1. Brush Palette (shows current tool)2. Color (shows current color) 3. Interface controls

4. View controls, canvas transform tools, & layer tools

5. Brushes & palette

6. Copic colors

7. Editing tools

8. Open, save, new, next, & previous image

9. Undo/redo

Choose a brush

In the Brush Palette or from the lagoon, tap a brush and start sketching. Select an eraser for modifications.

Change brush properties

In the Brush Palette, dbl-tap a brush to access the Brush Properties window and change brush settings, such as wetness and slant.

Resize a brush

Drag to the right to increase a brush’s size or left to decrease it.

Changing brush opacity

Use the O key to change the amount of paint applied by a brush.

1. Tap a brush.

2. Press-hold the O key as you drag up to increase a brush’s opacity or down to decrease it.

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Undo or redo a brushstroke

• To undo the previous action, tap or press Cmd+Z for Mac or Ctrl+Z for PC.

• To redo an action, tap or press Shift+Cmd+Z for Mac or Ctrl+Y for PC. Note - You can change the number of undos in the General tab of the Preferences.

Clear brushstrokes

Flick toward or press the Delete or Backspace key.

Copic Color Library

The Copic Color Library contains 72 colors.

1. Show/hide color chips

2. Color sets slider

3. Color chip

4. Current color chip

Choose a color

In the toolbar, tap or select Window > Copic Library to access the Copic Color Library.

Use your mouse wheel, Wacom touch strip, tap-drag the color set slider, or for Mac users, 2-finger drag to scroll between the pages of colors.

Note - If using your Wacom touch strip, in the Wacom Tablet Properties, Touch Strip Function must be set to either Zoom or Auto Scroll/Zoom.

Show/hide color chips

Tap the arrow at the top of the editor to show/hide its color chips.

Copic Colorless Blender

When you turn on this option in the Properties of a Copic marker, it turns that brush into a Copic Colorless Blender marker.

Swap between two brushes

Use one brush, then return to a previous one. After using a brush, select another, then flick toward or press S to move between them.

Tools for Sketching

Line and Shape tools

In the toolbar, tap a Line and Shape tools, Line, Rectangle, Polyline, Oval, or Free to help create shapes and lay down lines.

Lines

To draw a line, either tap or for a horizontal or vertical line, hold down the Shift key. Then, tap-drag. (See Free for diagonal lines.)

Rectangles

To draw a rectangle, tap and tap-drag to draw the shape.

Polylines

To draw a polyline, tap and tap to place each point. Dbl-tap the last point to change the line to a solid line.

Ovals

To draw an oval or circle, tap and tap-drag to draw the shape.

Free

To return to freeform stroke mode, tap . To draw a diagonal (45-degree angle) line, hold down the D key. Then, tap-drag.

View, Edit & Save your Sketch

Change your view

Zoom in and move about

Zoom using a touch strip Cintiqs and some tablets have a touch strip for zooming. Position your cursor over the area you want to zoom in or out of. Move your finger along the touch strip in an upward motion to zoom in or a downward motion to zoom out.

View an image’s actual size For the actual pixel size of an image, tap and flick toward or press Alt+Ctrl+0 (zero) for PC or Option+Cmd+0 (zero) for Mac.

Fit an image in the display To expand or shrink an image, tap and flick toward or press Cmd+0 (zero) for Mac or Ctrl+0 (zero) for PC.

Tap and flick toward or press-hold the spacebar to access the puck.

• To zoom in and out, move your stylus to the center to zoom and tap-drag.

• To reposition your sketch on the canvas, move your stylus to the outer ring and tap-drag.

Select an area

Tap to access the selection tools.

Select (M)

Lasso Select (L)

Use one of the following methods:

• To select an area, do one of the following, then tap-drag to select the area you want:

• tap in the toolbar or press the M key

• tap in the toolbar or press the L key

• To select everything, select Edit > Select All or press Cmd+A for Mac or Ctrl+A for PC.

Deselect an area

To de-select the area:

1. Tap outside the area.

2. Flick toward one of the other selection tools.

3. Press Cmd+D for Mac or Ctrl+D for PC.

4. Select Edit > Deselect.

Copy your sketch

Use the Selection tools to select everything or just an area, then use one of the Copy tools.

To copy:

• everything on a layer, select Edit > Select All or press the A key.

• a rectangular area, use or press the M key, then click-drag to surrounds the area you want to copy.

• an irregular area, use or press the L key, then click-drag to surrounds the area you want to copy.

• the contents from the current layer only, flick toward or press Cmd+C for Mac or Ctrl+C for PC.

To paste, flick toward or press Cmd+V for Mac or Ctrl+V for PC.

Move, rotate, or scale a selected area

Use the Transform Layer puck to move, rotate, and scale content.

Use one of the Selection tools, then the Transform Layer puck appears.

Note - To move, rotate, or scale a selected area for all layers, merge the layers first.

To move a selection, highlight the move outer circle. Tap, then drag to move the layer around the canvas.

To rotate a selection around its center, highlight the rotate middle circle. Tap, then drag in a circular motion in the direction you want to rotate.

To scale a selection bigger or smaller, highlight the scale inner circle. Tap, then drag to scale up or down to display the percentage scaling.

To non-proportionately scale a selection, highlight the upper part of the inner circle. Tap, then drag in the direction you want scaled.

Crop

Select Image > Crop or Crop to Selection, then tap-drag to surround the area. Anything outside the selection is deleted. Tap to remove unselected parts of the sketch.

Crop – makes a square or rectangular crop selection. Crop to Selection – crops irregular, square, and rectangular selections.

Crop the canvasUse Image > Canvas Size to set size of the canvas, using inches, cm, or mm. Tap the Anchor interface to specify how to crop the canvas.

Fit a resized image onto the screenTo expand or reduce an image to fill the screen, select and flick toward Fit to View or press Cmd+0 (zero) for Mac or Ctrl+0 (zero) for PC.

Rotate canvas

To rotate the canvas, hold down the Spacebar, mouse over the rotate ring of the puck, then click-drag to freely pivot the canvas.

Rotate or flip your sketch

Rotate Image CCW

Rotate Image CW

Flip canvas Vertically

Mirror Canvas

Flip Layer Vertically

Mirror Layer

• To rotate an image counter-clockwise, select Image > Rotate Image CCW .

• To rotate an image clockwise, select Image > Rotate Image CW .

Note - Keep selecting either of these to rotate the image 180 or 270 degrees.

• To flip an image vertically, select .

• To flip an image horizontally, select .

Add an image

An image, such as a PXD from Pixlr, can be inserted onto the current layer or imported onto a new layer. To add an image, select File > Add Image, then select a file.

Note - When adding a PXD image to a sketch, SketchBook flattens the file, without making any visual changes.

If you do not like its placement, choose to undo it and try again.

Hide or move the interface

Use these tools to set what interface elements are visible.

Displays the toolbar and lagoon and flips it to the left corner of the canvas.

Display the toolbar and lagoon and flips the lagoon to the right corner of the canvas.

Hide the toolbar and lagoon.

Display the toolbar, but hide the lagoon.

Create a new sketch

To create a new sketch, select and flick toward or press Cmd+N for Mac or Ctrl+N for PC.

Note - Use the Preferences window to set the default canvas size opened when you create new sketches.

Save your sketch

When saving a file, you can set the format of the saved file.

Save your sketch as an Adobe® Photoshop® fileWhen saving, select the Adobe Photoshop PSD file type option for Mac or Adobe Photoshop Files (*.PSD) file type option for PC.

Save your sketch as a PXDSave images as PXDs to work on them in Pixlr. To save a sketch that can be opened in Pixlr, select File > Save As > PXD Files (*.pxd).

Save your sketch as an image fileWhen saving, select the type of image you want saved.

Note - Only the TIFF and PSD image formats preserve layers. Saving them as any other image format flattens them. Only use Autodesk SketchBook to read TIFF files containing layers. We do not advise you to open these images in other programs because we cannot guarantee layer preservation.

Open a saved sketch

To open sketches of various formats, select and flick toward or press Cmd+O for Mac or Ctrl+O for PC.

Open a PXDOpen an image from Pixlr in SketchBook. If the image uses a blend mode not supported by SketchBook, the Normal blend mode is used to replace it. To bring an image from Pixlr into SketchBook, select File > Open, then select a PXD file.

Use Layers Use layers to make changes to an image without modifying the content on other layers. Use multiple layers for drawing complex sketches or to test variations of a design.

How do I use layers?

1. Flick toward to open the Layer Editor.

2. Tap-hold the middle of a layer to show /hide or rename a layer.

Select a layer

In the Layer Editor, tap a layer to select and highlight it. All actions are applied to this layer, until another layer is selected.

Note - Only one layer can be selected and active at a time.

Persistent selection

After selecting a region on the canvas, you can add, delete, or switch layers, while the “marching ants” created by the Select/Lasso/Crop tools stay active. Your selection is maintained.

Edit a layer

With a layer selected in the Layer Editor, move, rotate, or scale the layer, mirror or flip its content. Note - Moving, rotating, and scaling a layer only affects the current layer.

To move, rotate, or scale the entire canvas, merge all the layers first.

To move, rotate, or scale a layer, flick toward or press-hold the V key and use the

Transform puck. To do this to another layer, select a new layer and repeat.

Note - If using the V hotkey, press and hold it down, as you tap the top of the middle circle, and drag up, down, right, or left.

To mirror or flip a layer, see Rotate or flip your sketch.

Clearing an area from the current layer

1. Flick toward or , or press the M key, then drag over the area you want to clear.

2. Next, either flick toward or press the Delete key to remove the selected area.

Organize layers

Drag layers and reposition them and change the spacial position of objects and how they combine to create the overall composition. Once satisfied with layer order, they can be combined by merging two or all of them.

In the Layer Editor, pen down on to drag the layer up or down. Release the stylus to drop the layer into position.

Change the transparency of a layer

Full opacity Medium opacity (translucent) Transparent

Blend a layer with other layers using transparency. In the Layer Editor, with a layer selected, drag the slider to the opacity.

Note - If a layer is not visible, check to see if the opacity is at 0%.

Send, Print & Present

Print images or email them. Present sketches to colleagues, clients, or friends.

Email a sketch

Email a sketch to someone by selecting File > Send Mail.

TroubleshootingFor PC users, if you get a message that you cannot email the image, check that:

You have an email account set up on your computer.

To select a default email application on a Windows XP system:

• Go to the Internet Properties control panel (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Internet Options).

• Click the Programs tab.

• Pick the default email application from the E-mail dropdown list.

You have selected a default email application.

Your email program is open.Some email programs (for example, Microsoft Outlook) must be open before using this feature.

You can launch your default email program from outside of SketchBook.

Try the following:

• From the Windows Start menu, choose Run.

• Type the “mailto:” command.

• Click OK.

If a new empty message window does not appear, then there is a problem with the configuration of your email application and/or account.

For Mac users, if you get a message that you cannot email the image, check that:

• You have an email account set up on your computer.

• You have selected a default email application.

• You can launch your default email program from outside SketchBook.

If your email program creates the email message, but cannot send the message, ensure that your email service provider is operational. (Refer to the documentation of your email program for further information.)

Print a sketch

Make printouts of your sketches by selecting File > Print.

Flip through your sketches

View the images in a folder.

• To move to the next image in the current folder, tap , then flick toward . Images are displayed in increasing order by file name.

For example, HOUSE1, HOUSE2, HOUSE3.

• To move to the previous image in the current folder, tap , then flick toward . Images are displayed in decreasing order by file name.

For example, HOUSE3, HOUSE2, HOUSE1.Note - If you mark up the images, a prompt to save your changes when you go to the previous

or next image appears. To preserve the original image, save the marked-up image under a different file name.

Present images

Organize and determine their order, then hide the interface to make the images the focal point.

• Put your images in order for presentation – Create a folder containing the images you want to include in the presentation. Rename the images in the folder in alphabetical or numerical order you want to present them.

• Presenting images – Browse to the folder containing images you want to present. Open the first file in the folder.

• To show the next image, tap , then flick toward .

• To go backwards, tap , then flick toward .

• Hiding the interface for a bigger viewing area – To view a full-size display with no title bar or tools, tap , then flick . To move back and forth between images, use the Page Up and Page Down keys. To view all the tools again, tap , then flick .

Adjust System & Program Settings

Create your own marking menus and populate the lagoon with the options you use most frequently. Right-tap to access a virtual floating lagoon.

Hiding or showing scroll bars

In the Preferences, tap the Canvas tab. Turn off Enable canvas scroll bars.

Note - You can still use the Zoom and Move tool to view those parts of the image that are off the screen.

Changing the behavior of Page Up and Page Down

Some machines use the Page Up and Page Down keys differently for browsing to previous or next files. Tap the General tab, in the Page Up section, tap one of the following setting to set up the program behavior that works best for your system.

• Open next image

• Open previous image

Changing the Maximum Number of UndosChanging the number of undos only takes effect once a file is created or another one is imported. We recommend you restart SketchBook. Tap the General tab. Enter the number of undos in Maximum undos. The maximum value is 75, but we recommend a lower value for optimal speed and performance.

Improve performance

Some users may experience slower performance when Enable Rotate Canvas is enabled. This can be corrected by changing a setting in Preferences > General, which turn off Enable Rotate Canvas.

Tip - Press the 9 and 0 keys to rotate the canvas to the left of right, respectively.

Wacom tablet troubleshooting

For users of either the Wacom Cintiq or Intuos tablet devices, who have experienced any of the following issues:

• Cursor offset (Cintiq)

• Cursor acceleration (dual monitor setups)

• Erratic pen input

You may want to also read these articles at visit the following links:

• http://www.wacom.com/faqs/view.php?id=289

• http://www.wacom.com/faqs/view.php?id=115

Installing the latest drivers

If your Wacom device seems to work when you first plug it in, but you experience erratic behavior (for example, problems with stylus pressure or with drifting or offset of the brush stroke), you need the latest tablet driver.

Note - If you switch from serial to USB devices, try uninstalling the tablet driver and reinstalling it.

For the latest Wacom drivers, go to the Support area of http://www.wacom.com. Install a tablet driver only after you have plugged in the Wacom device, uninstalled the previous driver, and restarted.

Note - For PC users, do not install Wacom drivers on a Tablet PC. Only install those drivers provided by your Tablet PC manufacturer.

Using default tip pressure feel

If you find that brush strokes change abruptly from too light to too dark as you vary the amount of pressure you apply to your stylus:

1. For PC users, display the Wacom Tablet Properties window. Access this window from Start > Settings > Control Panel > Wacom tablet.

For Mac users, find the installed Wacom drivers and double-clicking the Wacom Tablet icon to access this window.

2. To customized settings for other applications, add Autodesk SketchBook to the list of applications with customized tool settings, which applies the changes only to it.

3. Move the Tip Pressure Feel slider to half-way between Soft and Hard. The shape of the pressure curve in the More Options display must be a diagonal line. It takes this shape by default when you move the Tip Pressure Feel slider to the middle.

For information about using SketchBook with Wacom tablets, see the section to follow, Adjusting stylus responsiveness.

Adjusting stylus responsiveness

Styli (pens) for various systems each respond differently to the pressure you apply. Stylus responsiveness can be changed. Keep in mind, this setting affects brushstrokes for all pressure-sensitive brushes. If you dislike the feel of your current stylus, do the following:

1. Select a pressure-sensitive brush, such as the pencil.

Note - You cannot adjust stylus responsiveness, unless the current brush is pressure-sensitive.

2. Select Edit > Stylus Responsiveness. The Stylus Responsiveness window appears.

3. Move the slider to the right to increase the responsiveness of the stylus.

As you move toward the Less end of the scale, the feel of the stylus becomes softer. You do not have to press hard to get dark and thick strokes.

As you move toward the More end of the scale, the feel of the stylus becomes harder. Press hard to get dark, thick strokes.

4. Test your stylus on the canvas. Experiment with different types of brushes.

Note - The Stylus Responsiveness window stays up while you test.

Keep testing with different responsiveness values until the marks on the screen look and feel right.

• With heavy pressure, the markers and other heavier brushes tend to make dark, thick strokes.

• With light pressure, the pencils tend to make light, but visible strokes.

Note - You may need to adjust the pen responsiveness each time you use a different tablet or stylus.

Adjusting stylus responsiveness for one brush

The Stylus Responsiveness window applies to all brushes. To create a brush that responds differently to the pressure you apply to the stylus, create a do-it-yourself brush and change its size and opacity levels.

Note - Brushstrokes can change abruptly from too light to too dark as you vary the stylus pressure. Setting the tip pressure feel to its default value corrects the abrupt changes.