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Or just hit Ctrl A to select all handles. Release the mouse button when you are done. Press and hold your left mouse button in an empty place of the canvas. The trick about this tool is that it affects selected handles only. Go for it and click the Smooth Move Tool button in the toolbox. Second, you can use Smooth Move Tool to deform an existing shape. That will reduce the count of vertices produced at drawing time, but will make your shape less detailed. There are two solutions here.įirst, you can increase the 'Smooth' value in the Tool Options Dialog while using Draw Tool. Choose brown as the default fill color.ĭraw tool is great for drawing complex shapes, but you end up with a bunch of handles, which are hard to manipulate with the Transform Tool in the way we described above. Set the default line width value to be big enough - say, 15pt - otherwise you will not notice any pressure sensitivity effect. Now grab your stylus, create a new file and click on the Draw Tool button in the toolbox. In the 'Input' dialog find your tablet's stylus device and set its 'Mode' to 'Screen'. Go to 'File → Input Devices.' from toolbox menu. Synfig Studio supports pressure sensitivity, but you need to configure it first.

If you have a graphic tablet you can use Draw Tool to create Splines. You can also see other things to mask via the Canvas Menu Caret: 'View → Show/Hide Handles'. To show them, press Alt 5 or click 'Toggle width handles' button at the top of the canvas window (the fifth one from the left).

You do this by selecting the outline layer (NOTE: you must select the Outline Layer, the Region Layer has no width data) and tweaking with the width handles. You can change the width of an outline at each vertex. One quick thing to mention before I finish up. As mentioned in the previous tutorial, you can group layers into hierarchy. But there is a way to make this more sane.

#SYNFIG STUDIO DOWNLOAD THE NEW VERSION FOR IOS SOFTWARE#

And yes, if you aren't using the software properly, that is exactly what you will get. This may appear to be leading to a mess of layers. Want to insert a point somewhere? Right click on the segment where you want to insert something and hit 'Insert item (smart)'. If you want to remove a vertex, right click on it and hit 'Remove Item (smart)'. Just click on one of the layers and have at it. If you want to manipulate the vertices after you have created the layers, it is very easy to do so. Despite the fact that they are two separate layers, their vertices parameter has already been linked - so you can select either one and move its handles around and the other one will also change. Since we checked 'Create Region' and 'Create Outline' in previous steps, you'll notice that there are two layers that we have created - the Outline and the Region in the Layers Panel. Ok, we now have a nice pretty white region with a thick black outline. Want to loop the Spline? Right click on the first vertex and select 'Loop Spline'. Want to split the tangents? Right click on the tangent and hit 'Split Tangents'. Honest! If you want to remove a vertex, right click on it and select 'Delete Vertex'. Keep in mind, however, that during this construction, there is nothing stopping you from just moving it if you don't like where you placed a vertex or a tangent. Do this over and over, and you construct a Spline. While you are placing a vertex, you can drag out its tangent by dragging the mouse. Make sure that only 'Create Region', 'Create Outline' and 'Link Origins' are checked.Ĭlicking with your mouse in the canvas will place vertices. Also, set the line width to something nice and thick - 10pt should do the trick.Īfter you switched to Spline Tool, take a look at the Tool Options Panel. This will reset us back to the default black and white. Now, go ahead and click on the 'Reset Colors' button in the lower left corner of the FG/BG color widget in the toolbox. Keep in mind that if you want to insert a shape somewhere, you should select where you want to insert it before you go into the Spline Tool - changing the selection afterward will automatically swap you back to the Transform Tool. Anything you create with the Spline Tool will be inserted above the currently selected layer. When you click on the Spline Tool, you will see that the handles from your currently selected object (if there was one) will disappear, but the layer(s) will still remain selected in the Layers Panel. Reset Colors button in the Toolbox Before we start with the Spline tutorial, let's look at some additional notes on how Synfig works.

Synfig Studio download the new version for ios