Sketchbook, like a Pro

 Finding my way around the Sketchbook interface (with help from Bing/Chat).

- To set the canvas size, go under Image to Canvas:

                                                         

- To position the canvas on the screen: a mouse wheel-roll will alter the apparent

size of the canvas. One nudges the canvas here and there, depending on the side

of the canvas on which one places the mouse. Below, nudging to the right:

                                                            

- Locking opacity: the checkered lock icon, when closed, locks in the opacity

of the layer.

                                                                    

- One needs to tap and who;e to make lock Layer appear:

                                                                        

- To assign a background color: it is white by default, one can click within the background 

layer to choose a color.

                                                                          

- The predictive stroke tool creates a steadier line. At four, one can draw a line with

one's finger.

                                                                         

                               

- The steady stroke tool, at a high setting, creates a response lag that makes drawing a

long line easier.

                                                                    

- Steady stroke, at a low setting, makes drawing detail more easy:

                                                                         

                                                                   

  

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From Perplexity:

                                                                             

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Worked on Synfig, this afternoon; learning to switch between images but not

with the aid of a Switch group. Rather, one merely references the z-range order

from the properties panel. Below, from my shapes Group, z-range position 2 is the 

blue triangle, which appears in back of the other shapes because it is lower in the layers

panel .

                                                               

This is going to prove a very useful technique. The image before the waypoint ia a duplicate

of the previous keyframe; the image after, a duplicate of the new image. One can transform

things on the new image, and turn back to the original...