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90 Using Brushes

Working with Text 6

92 Working with Text

Working with Text 93 Entering text You can create different types of text in DrawPlus, i.e. Artistic Text, Frame Text, or Shape Text, all directly o

94 Working with Text For artistic text that will be automatically sized into an area, click and drag out the area to the desired size. 3. To set t

Working with Text 95 To retain formatting, use "Formatted Text (RTF)" or for plain text use "Unformatted Unicode Text". For the

96 Working with Text Retyping text You can either retype artistic, frame or shape text directly on the page, or use the Edit Text window—great for

Working with Text 97 The Node Tool can be used for special adjustments on artistic text. For greater control over the shape of the artistic te

98 Working with Text For incremental scaling, use the Enlarge Text or Shrink Text buttons on the same toolbar. Positioning • Vertical alignment

Working with Text 99 To flow text along a curve: Either: 1. If you want to use an existing text object, select the object first. Otherwise, you ca

Welcome 1

100 Working with Text You’ll find dimension lines indispensable for planning garden designs (e.g., a garden gazebo plan above), technical diagram

Working with Text 101 Click where you want to start the dimension line (e.g., on a connection point), then drag and release the mouse button where y

102 Working with Text To complete the dimension line, move the mouse again to position the floating line or arc and its label—note that th

Working with Text 103 To enhance the power of spell checking, you can add words to the current dictionary that spell checking doesn't yet know

104 Working with Text To check the spelling of a single word: 1. With Underline mistakes as you type checked and a language selected (in Tools>

Working with Objects 7

106 Working with Objects

Working with Objects 107 Copying, pasting, cutting, and deleting objects To copy one or more objects to the Windows Clipboard: 1. Select the object

108 Working with Objects Making duplicates • Select the object while holding down the Ctrl key, then drag the copied object to a new position.

Working with Objects 109 3. In the dialog, set the Grid size by choosing number of columns or rows. Objects are cloned into this grid arrangement (

2 Welcome

110 Working with Objects Making "in-between" copies of two objects Blending is yet another useful way of making multiple copies by in-bet

Working with Objects 111 To apply the Rule of Thirds: 1. Select your object and click the Crop Tool. 2. On the Crop context toolbar, click . 3.

112 Working with Objects • Click and drag on the cropped photo to pan the image. For best results, aim to position your main subject of interest a

Working with Objects 113 • To reshape a cropped area. With the crop window selected... • Choose Convert to Curves on the Arrange tab. • Selec

114 Working with Objects 5. To cancel Format Painter mode, press Esc, click on a blank area, or choose any tool button. For copy formatting from o

Working with Objects 115 Cutting up objects It is possible to cut any object (or image for that matter) by using the Knife Tool (Drawing toolbar).

116 Working with Objects To cut selected objects (freeform or straight line): Ensure Edit All Layers button on the Layers tab is enabled if you w

Working with Objects 117 5. Hover over, then click to remove the unwanted cut area(s). - or - With the Pointer Tool, drag the newly split fragmen

118 Working with Objects 4. Click the Cut button in the lower-right corner, then click the unwanted area under the cursor to create your new cut

Working with Objects 119 The flipside of erasing is "adding to" (i.e., augmenting), a technique to add or "grow" a vector objec

Welcome 3 Welcome to DrawPlus X3—the design and illustration solution from Serif, fully certified for Windows Vista, and packed with all the feat

120 Working with Objects added. (You can use the Ctrl key to redefine the painted area while holding down the mouse button). 5. Release the mouse

Working with Objects 121 To allow free resizing of an object to any aspect ratio: With the Shift key depressed, drag from an object's corner

122 Working with Objects You'll notice the angle of rotation displayed around the object's centre of rotation . Note that when rotating

Working with Objects 123 DrawPlus also provides the following methods for controlling rotation. (These don't apply to shear.) Flipping objects

124 Working with Objects DrawPlus lets you search for your named objects (or groups) to allow resizing, rotating, transforming, or any other opera

Working with Objects 125 5. Click the Find Next button to perform your search. The first matching object is shown selected and zoomed to selection

126 Working with Objects To create a group from a multiple selection: • Click below the selection. To ungroup (turn a group back into a multipl

Working with Objects 127 Combine Merges two or more objects into a composite object, with a clear “hole” where their filled regions overlap. The co

128 Working with Objects • Crop to Bottom Object The top object is cropped to the outline of the bottom object. • Clip to Top Object The bot

Working with Objects 129 Join/Add Creates one new object that’s the sum of any two selected objects, whether or not they overlap. The objects need

4 Welcome Key features Document • Multipage Document Support From startup to printout, the versatile DrawPlus engine sustains your creativity. Choo

130 Working with Objects Join/Intersect like Subtract, requires overlapping objects—it retains the overlap and discards the rest. Aligning and

Working with Objects 131 To align two or more objects: 1. Using the Pointer Tool, Shift-click on all the objects you want to align, or draw a marq

132 Working with Objects Ordering objects Think of the objects on a page as being stacked or piled on top of each other. The front-most object is t

Working with Objects 133 • To shift the object's position one step toward the back, choose Back One. • To shift the selected object's

134 Working with Objects Each layer is situated along with other layers (if present) within a stack on the Layers tab—the uppermost layer is applie

Working with Objects 135 To delete a layer: • In the Layers tab, select the layer’s name and click the Delete Layer button. If you delete a la

136 Working with Objects To merge a layer: 1. Activate the layer you want to merge to by clicking its entry. The layer is highlighted in blue. (No

Working with Objects 137 • Click/unclick the Locked column to allow/prevent objects on the layer from being moved, deleted, or resized. (Clicking

138 Working with Objects This tree view greatly improves the ability to select and manage nested objects in more complex drawings. It's also

Working with Objects 139 Enabling this button lets you select any object on any visible layer. You can press the Tab key repeatedly to cycle between

Welcome 5 • Professional-Standard Drawing Features Features like converting text to curves, defining custom envelopes, fully customizable drop shad

140 Working with Objects

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 8

142 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 143 Setting fill properties Any closed shape, such as a closed curve or QuickShape, or text has an interior

144 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Solid colours Applying a fill is easy, whether you’re selecting a custom colour from the Colour tab or a

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 145 By comparison, the Swatch tab hosts a vast array of colour swatches for solid, gradient, plasma, and bit

146 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 3. Pick a thumbnail from either the Document Palette or from another palette shown in the Palettes dr

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 147 4. Click anywhere in the colour space window then drag the marker around to fine-tune your colour select

148 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Using the Studio's Line tab, you can adjust plain line properties for any freeform, straight, or cu

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 149 The last Edge Effect style applies fringed edges to images and text with specially designed Edge brushes

6 Welcome • Object Default control Set your intended object’s default line colour/style, fill, and transparency before even drawing your object! As

150 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Two styles called Brush Stroke and Edge Effect let you apply a brush, chosen from the Brushes tab, to

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 151 Rounded Line Cap Extended Line Cap Flat Line Cap Bevelled Join Sharp Join Rounded Join The c

152 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Defining solid line and fill colours When you're applying a solid fill or line colour using the Stu

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 153 If the colour doesn't already exist in the Swatch tab's Document Palette, a new thumbnail appea

154 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Using the Colour Selector The Colour Selector is a complementary dialog to the Colour and Swatch tabs an

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 155 The loaded palette's colours appear as swatches in the Swatch tab, replacing the swatches previously

156 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Applying a gradient fill There are several ways to apply a gradient fill as a line colour or object fil

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 157 4. Click the thumbnail for the fill you want to apply. - or - Drag from the gallery swatch onto any obj

158 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Radial Fill Ellipse Fill Experiment to discover new effects! For example, you can widen or narrow the

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 159 The editing of gradient fills is a complex operation and is covered in greater detail in the online Help.

Welcome 7 • Transparency Effects Transparency can make the difference between flat, ordinary visuals and sparkling realism! And DrawPlus provides i

160 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency Editing the fill path If an object using a bitmap fill is selected, you'll see the fill path displ

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 161 Working with mesh fills A mesh fill works like a gradient fill but uses a more complex fill path, with a

162 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency For details of how to edit and manage mesh fills, see online Help. Setting opacity Key point! In Draw

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 163 The Opacity slider (Colour tab) can be used to alter the opacity of a specific colour, whether that colo

164 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency To apply solid opacity: 1. Select the object(s) and display the Studio's Colour tab. 2. Drag the

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 165 Transparency can also be applied along a custom drawn transparency path using the Transparency Tool, in

166 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency category. To apply gradient or bitmap transparency effects: 1. With your object selected, go to the Tra

Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency 167 Editing gradient transparency Once you've applied a transparency, you can adjust its path on the obj

168 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency

Working with Pictures 9

8 Welcome • Brushes Unleash the painter within you, with DrawPlus's powerful Paintbrush Tool and the supporting Brush tab's galleries! Pi

170 Working with Pictures

Working with Pictures 171 Importing pictures Pictures that can be imported into DrawPlus can belong to one of two groups: • Bitmapped pictures, als

172 Working with Pictures • To set the size of the inserted picture, drag out a region and release the mouse button. By default, the picture'

Working with Pictures 173 To set up your digital device for image acquisition: • Follow the instructions supplied with the device. When acquiring

174 Working with Pictures The white initial background is discarded, leaving interim checkerboard transparency, from which another image can be us

Working with Pictures 175 Use when cutting out objects with poorly defined edges. Transparency and pixel blending are used at the outline edge t

176 Working with Pictures To create a vector-cropped bitmap: 1. Select Vector-cropped Bitmap from the Output Type drop-down menu. 2. Drag the Fe

Working with Pictures 177 For Show tinted, a red tint indicates areas to be discarded; a green tint shows areas to be kept. For Show transparent mo

178 Working with Pictures You'll see your image on the poster page in its original location, but with the selected areas cut away (made transp

Working with Pictures 179 Autotracing Instead of manually tracing a design, it's possible to automatically convert bitmaps back into vector obj

Welcome 9 • Perspective Effects Get a new slant on things... With a context toolbar flyout full of presets plus a built-in tool for freeform adjust

180 Working with Pictures • Photo Image Trace. For colour photos. The autotracing process is performed in a studio environment, which makes use o

Working with Pictures 181 3. (Optional) Adjust the sliders at the right of the workspace (each unique to the profile used); your profile settings

182 Working with Pictures • You can add a new colour or replace an existing colour by dragging the Colour Selector to any colour on your comput

Working with Pictures 183 Creating custom profiles Adjusting any slider means that you've modified your chosen preset profile. If you want to k

184 Working with Pictures

Applying Special Effects 10

186 Applying Special Effects

Applying Special Effects 187 Creating borders The Border Wizard lets you create a border around the whole page or a selected object, or within a sp

188 Applying Special Effects If you chose a whole-page or object border, it appears immediately. With the "custom" option, use the curs

Applying Special Effects 189 To create a blend with the Blend Tool: 1. Select the Blend Tool button on the Drawing toolbar. 2. (Optional) From

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10 Welcome • Stopframe Animation Tap the power of QuickShapes to turn out Web stopframe animations in no time—using advanced features like onion sk

190 Applying Special Effects Any blend can be modified at a later date via the context toolbar. Creating rough edges The Roughen Tool lets you se

Applying Special Effects 191 Adding drop shadows You can apply commonly used drop shadows by using the Shadow Tool. When applied, the selected obj

192 Applying Special Effects Offset shadow (showing control nodes) Skewed offset shadow (adjusted X Shear) Once you’ve created a basic shad

Applying Special Effects 193 To change a shadow's colour: • Select the object, choose the Shadow Tool, then select a colour from the Studio&ap

194 Applying Special Effects The Feathering option in the Filter Effects dialog, offers independent control of Opacity and Blur, which can also be

Applying Special Effects 195 To apply 2D filter effects: 1. Click Filter Effects from the Drawing toolbar. The Filter Effects dialog appears. 2.

196 Applying Special Effects Blur Various blur effects can be applied to DrawPlus objects. The types of blur include: • Gaussian: the effect smoot

Applying Special Effects 197 There you’ll see a variety of remarkable 3D surface and texture presets in various categories (Glass, Metal, Wood, etc

198 Applying Special Effects You can also store an object's customized effect on the Studio's Effects tab to use later. For more informa

Applying Special Effects 199 Applying dimensionality (Instant 3D) Using the Instant 3D feature, you can easily transform flat shapes (shown) and te

Welcome 11 • Professional Print Output PDF publishing to the PDF/X-1 or PDF/X-1a file format is a great choice for professional output from DrawPlu

200 Applying Special Effects X rotation Y rotation Z rotation X and Y rotation Remember to take advantage of the hover-over cursor text or hin

Applying Special Effects 201 To revert your Instant 3D transform: • Click on the context toolbar. To switch off 3D effects: • Click on the co

202 Applying Special Effects applied; you can also design your own Custom projection. All projections represent a different object position about t

Applying Special Effects 203 To apply a Pseudo 3D projection: 1. From the Standard toolbar, click , then select Top Plane, Front Plane, or Right Pl

204 Applying Special Effects Using Advanced Pseudo 3D Up to now we've assumed that you've applied a default isometric projection. However

Creating Animations 11

206 Creating Animations

Creating Animations 207 Getting started with animation What is animation? Like flip books, Disney movies and TV, it’s a way of creating the illusion

208 Creating Animations optimized for the animation type. For custom sized pages, choose the Custom Page Setup button at the bottom of the dialog.

Creating Animations 209 To save an animation: • Choose File>Save... DrawPlus saves animation documents in the proprietary .DPA format (Drawing

12 Welcome New features in DrawPlus X3 Images • AutoTrace (p. 179) Convert bitmaps to vector art with AutoTrace studio. Adopt preset profiles for o

210 Creating Animations cartoon flick-book). Once you've finished creating frames you can preview or export your animation, just as you would

Creating Animations 211 two frames than usual, release the mouse button to place the frame to be moved. To delete a selected frame: • Click from

212 Creating Animations To preview in a web browser: • For stopframe animation, select Preview in Browser from the File menu. The animation loads

Creating Animations 213 To make the current frame an Overlay frame: • In the Frames tab, click on the icon at the bottom of your chosen frame. Cl

214 Creating Animations you create subsequent keyframes. This in itself doesn't affect animation, but it's the repositioning of a run for

Creating Animations 215 • Add and manage sound and movies to enhance your animation. Manage files from one central location with the Media tab, whi

216 Creating Animations swatch. The dialog lets you pick up a colour from a range of drop-down colour modes, your Document Palette or via a colour

Creating Animations 217 3. Choose to add keyframe(s) at a Location before or after the currently selected keyframe or before/after the first or las

218 Creating Animations Keyframe duration Keyframe duration represents the amount of time in between each individual keyframe. The value is set ac

Creating Animations 219 Storyboard control Storyboard control is possible by using a selection of buttons grouped together on the Storyboard tab (eq

Welcome 13 Design • Spray brush strokes (p. 81) Have some painting fun with spray brushes from categories such as Airbrushes, Grunge, and Special E

220 Creating Animations Adding movies As well as using sound in your keyframe animation, you can introduce movie clips. The movie is inserted into

Creating Animations 221 Previewing keyframe animations You can preview your animation at any time either in a web browser or in Flash Player (Versio

222 Creating Animations Keyframe object control We've just looked at storyboard control. However, a whole series of important object control

Creating Animations 223 called tweened objects, and show as transparent square nodes (see below) which are automatically created between any two key

224 Creating Animations The Object toolbar also offers two commands for repositioning objects along the storyboard. Update placement backward updat

Creating Animations 225 To change object attributes 1. Select the object whose attributes you want to apply forward or backward. 2. From the objec

226 Creating Animations To configure a "segment", select the first Key object () then configure settings in the Easing tab (with Apply t

Creating Animations 227 Autorun Although switched off by default, this advanced feature speeds up the animation process by automatically creating ob

228 Creating Animations Applying actions (keyframe animation) Selected objects can be assigned an event and corresponding action. The use of action

Creating Animations 229 • Effect: named object control (hide, show, recolour). • Position: move objects by pixel or to screen areas. • Pre-loader

14 Welcome • Export selected regions (p. 252) Easily draw and size an overlay region around an area of your design, then export it via Export Optim

230 Creating Animations The applied action can be edited by double-clicking the tab's bold event entry and, from the dialog, clicking the Para

Creating Animations 231 Click the Flatten button to rationalize several listed actions into one. A combined action named "Flattened Code"

232 Creating Animations Affecting change over time (keyframe animation) DrawPlus uses the term envelopes to describe editable motion paths (or prof

Creating Animations 233 To apply an envelope: 1. Display the Easing tab. 2. Select an object from the Storyboard tab to which you want to apply t

234 Creating Animations To delete a profile preset: 1. Select Manage Easing Profiles... from the Tab Menu. 2. From the dialog, select the preset

Creating Animations 235 4. (Optional) Set the bounding box in other keyframes, according to the desired effect. Otherwise a full screen view will b

236 Creating Animations 5. Click the Mask button to the right of the new mask layer's name (it then shows as ). 6. To enable masking, clic

Creating Animations 237 Use the Convert to non-state object from the same menu if you want convert back. To change a sub-object's attributes: •

238 Creating Animations Flash SWF The Flash SWF (ShockWave Flash) format has fast become the format of choice for interactive vector-based graphic

Creating Animations 239 • Windows Media audio and Video. The WMV format is best supported on PCs running Windows Media Player, although some other

Welcome 15 Installation System Requirements Minimum: • Windows-based PC with DVD/CD drive and mouse • Microsoft Windows® XP or Vista operating sys

240 Creating Animations 6. (Optional) Set an export Quality. 7. Click the Export button. Your project will then be composed and converted into th

Creating Animations 241 used on your computer (as for any screensaver file) or for distribution to friends and family equally. To create a screensav

242 Creating Animations

Publishing and Sharing 12

244 Publishing and Sharing

Publishing and Sharing 245 Previewing the printed page Print Preview changes the screen view to display your layout without guides, rulers, and othe

246 Publishing and Sharing To set up your printer or begin printing: • Click Print on the Standard toolbar. The Print dialog appears. To print:

Publishing and Sharing 247 Printing special formats In Normal drawing mode, using Page Setup and printing options, you can set up pages for a variet

248 Publishing and Sharing To print a poster or banner from a standard size page: 1. First create your standard sized page (e.g., A4). 2. On the

Publishing and Sharing 249 Publishing as PDF PDF (short for Portable Document Format) is a cross-platform WYSIWYG file format developed by Adobe to

16 Welcome First-time install To install DrawPlus X3 simply insert the DrawPlus X3 Program CD into your DVD/CD drive. The AutoRun feature automatica

250 Publishing and Sharing If you checked Preview PDF file in Acrobat, the resulting PDF file appears in the version of Acrobat Reader installed on

Publishing and Sharing 251 Exporting as image Especially if you're exporting web bitmap images, you can take advantage of the Export Optimizer,

252 Publishing and Sharing display different options depending on your chosen graphics format. Change settings as appropriate to the file format se

Publishing and Sharing 253 To define an export region: 1. From the Standard toolbar, click and select Export Overlay from the drop-down menu. A b

254 Publishing and Sharing To change export settings: 1. From the Standard toolbar, click and choose Preview Settings... The option launches a d

Publishing and Sharing 255 Sharing via website You can share your design by print, as a distributable electronic PDF, or via the www.drawplus.com w

256 Publishing and Sharing view published designs in a chosen group, which can be private, public or "friends only." Post to group forums

Publishing and Sharing 257 If you've already registered but not added your account details, click Login. This takes you to your account details

258 Publishing and Sharing Uploading Once you've successfully created your account you can upload your design, with the option of including on

Index 13

Getting Started 2

2D filter effects, 193 3D, 199, 201 filter effects, 196 Instant, 199 Lighting, 196 planes, 201 Pseudo, 201 3D Lighting, 197 actions (Keyframe anima

Bevel effects, 194 Bézier curves, 58, 65 editing, 65 bitmap brushes, 81 bitmap fills, 143, 159 bitmap transparency, 165 bitmaps (see pictures), 171

Convert to Stopframe Animation, 208 Create Keyframe Animation, 207 Stopframe Animation, 207 crop marks (printing), 249 Crop to Bottom, 128 Crop to T

edge effects, 150 Edit All Layers, 138 Edit Text window, 96 editing, 95 brush strokes, 84 brushes, 82 connectors, 75 curves, 61 dimension lines, 99

folded documents printing, 247 setup, 31 fonts, 95 embedding in PDF files, 249 Format Painter, 113 formatting, 95 of text, 96 Forward One, 132 four

merging, 136 paper textures on, 136, 198 properties of, 136 rearranging, 135 renaming, 134 selecting, 134 Layers tab, 134 layout tools, 33, 37 guide

copying, cutting, and pasting, 107 cutting, 115 deleting, 107 distributing, 130 editing bitmap and plasma fills on, 159 editing gradient fills on, 1

adding, 41 deleting, 41 duplicating, 41 Pages tab, 39 Paintbrush Tool, 81, 83 palettes, colour changing, 154 paper textures, 136, 198 pasteboard are

raster (bitmap) images, 171 changing raster to vector, 180 rasterization settings for printing, 249 registration, 3 Replicate, 108 reshaping curves,

18 Getting Started

Stopframe Animation, 205, See animation, Stopframe stopframes onion skinning, 211 reordering, 210 Straight Line Tool, 56, 57 straight lines, 57 Stud

textures, 198 paper, 198 three colour fills, 155 tiling bitmap and plasma fills, 160 printing, 247 tint, 146 adjusting, 146 tinting, 144 tips, 234 f

workspace choosing, 20 zero point, 33 Zoom blur, 194 zooming, 40

Getting Started 19 Startup Wizard Once DrawPlus has been installed, you're ready to start. Setup adds a Serif DrawPlus X3 item to the All Progr

This User Guide, and the software described in it, is furnished under an end user License Agreement, which is included with the product. The agreeme

20 Getting Started Open Open Saved Work open and edit your saved DrawPlus drawings Design Template create an instant drawing or animation from

Getting Started 21 Starting with a design template It's so much easier creating drawings with a little bit of help—DrawPlus can utilize a whole

22 Getting Started 3. From the dialog, select a drawing category on the left, and examine the designs on the right. Click the thumbnail that's

Getting Started 23 To start a new drawing during your DrawPlus session: • Click New Drawing on the Standard toolbar (if Startup Wizard is disable

24 Getting Started To open an existing document via toolbar or menu: 1. Click Open on the Standard toolbar, or select File>Open... 2. In the

Getting Started 25 To open an image: 1. Click Open on the Standard toolbar. 2. Change the file type drop-down menu to display All Image Files, lo

26 Getting Started Opening AutoCAD files DrawPlus opens AutoCAD® .dwg and .dxf files quickly and easily. Using the same process as that for PDF fil

Getting Started 27 Saving your work DrawPlus saves its documents as .dpp (Drawing), .dpx (Template) or .dpa (Animation) files (for Stopframe and Key

28 Getting Started Closing DrawPlus To close the current document: • Choose Close from the File menu or click the window's Close button. -

Working with Pages 3

30 Working with Pages

Working with Pages 31 Setting up a document A document's page size and orientation settings make a fundamental difference to its layout, and ar

32 Working with Pages 4. Adjust the document Margins to your specifications. You can set the left, right, top, and bottom margins individually, or

Working with Pages 33 Setting measurement units and drawing scale For precision drawing, you need techniques that allow you to position and draw acc

34 Working with Pages The small tab that is shown on the intersection button can be used to set a new ruler origin—simply drag the tab onto the pa

Working with Pages 35 Rulers as a measuring tool The most obvious role for rulers is as a measuring tool. As you move the mouse pointer, a small lin

36 Working with Pages To create a guide: • For a horizontal or vertical guide, click on the horizontal or vertical ruler, respectively, and drag o

Working with Pages 37 To change the drawing scale: 1. Choose from the context toolbar (shown with Pointer or Rotate Tool selected). 2. Check the

38 Working with Pages To turn snapping on and off: 1. Choose from the context toolbar (shown with Pointer or Rotate Tool selected). 2. In the S

Working with Pages 39 Viewing pages The HintLine toolbar at the bottom of the screen displays the current page number and provides a number of contr

Contents Contents 1. Welcome ... 1 Key features ...

40 Working with Pages Zooming The Hintline toolbar also allows the user to view and/or edit the page at different levels of detail. You can zoom in/

Working with Pages 41 Adding and deleting pages DrawPlus uses the Page Manager to add one or more pages before or after a currently selected page; y

42 Working with Pages To make a page a background for other pages: • From the Pages tab, right-click the intended background page and choose Set as

Working with Pages 43 The above example illustrates how grass-like brush strokes can be added more easily to a canvas once it has been rotated 30°!

44 Working with Pages Applying the Rule of Thirds Traditionally a technique used in photography, the Rule of Thirds grid can also be applied to you

Working with Pages 45 Once applied, the grid stays selected. Clicking away from the grid will deselect it, but it can be reselected at any time (e.g

46 Working with Pages To apply a Divine Proportions grid: 1. From the Standard toolbar, click and select Divine Proportions from the drop-down me

Working with Pages 47 • Select the object, then click Solo Mode on the Hintline toolbar. After editing, click the button again to return to norma

48 Working with Pages To see what the current defaults are for a particular object type, simply create a new object of that type. Although you can

Working with Pages 49 To switch synchronize defaults off (for manual default control): • Uncheck Synchronize Defaults on the Defaults flyout of t

Contents 4. Lines, Curves, and Shapes ... 51 Selecting one or more objects ...

50 Working with Pages

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 4

52 Lines, Curves, and Shapes

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 53 Selecting one or more objects Before you can change any object, you need to select it using one of several tools availa

54 Lines, Curves, and Shapes Selecting multiple objects It is also possible to select more than one object, making a multiple selection that you ca

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 55 Selection using a lasso For more detailed multiple object selection, using a fixed marquee or Shift-select may be too i

56 Lines, Curves, and Shapes Choose one of the line tools shown below from the Drawing toolbar. The Pencil Tool is used to sketch freeform lines.

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 57 4. (optional) To set the degree of smoothing to be applied to the line (and subsequent lines), set the Smoothness valu

58 Lines, Curves, and Shapes To extend a line: 1. Move the cursor over either of the end nodes, a small + cursor will appear. Click at that locat

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 59 (4) (5) 6. However, you can press the Alt key while drawing the segment to define a "cusp" or sharp corne

Contents 7. Working with Objects ... 105 Copying, pasting, cutting, and deleting objects ...

60 Lines, Curves, and Shapes To close a curve (without new segment): • Select the curve with the Node Tool, and drag from an end node (note the N

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 61 Editing lines and shapes To edit lines or shapes, you can manipulate their segments and/or nodes, allowing you to: •

62 Lines, Curves, and Shapes 2. Click on the line, and a new node appears. 3. Keep the mouse button down and drag to draw a new line section, c

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 63 - or - Select nodes and drag. Selection can be by one of the following methods: Hover over a single node and clic

64 Lines, Curves, and Shapes 4. Drag any selected node to reshape adjacent segment(s). All selected nodes move in the same direction, so you can

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 65 To adjust the smoothness of the most recent pencil line: 1. Choose the Pencil Tool and draw a freeform line. 2. Cli

66 Lines, Curves, and Shapes To change one or more nodes to a different type: 1. Select the object with the Node Tool, followed by the node(s) you

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 67 To change a line segment from straight to curved, or vice versa: 1. With the Node Tool, select the leading node of the

68 Lines, Curves, and Shapes When you first break a curve the two nodes are in exactly the same location and so the curve may still look as if it

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 69 • Click and drag on the page to draw out your QuickShape to a chosen size (use the Shift key to lock the aspect ratio;

Contents 9. Working with Pictures ... 169 Importing pictures ...

70 Lines, Curves, and Shapes Using the Gallery The Studio's Gallery tab contains pre-built design objects and elements you'd like to reus

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 71 To view your Gallery: • Click the Studio's Gallery tab. • Select a folder or category from the drop-down menu. T

72 Lines, Curves, and Shapes Converting a shape to editable curves The conversion of QuickShapes to curves provides you with a starting point for y

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 73 Applying perspective The Perspective Tool, like the adjacent Envelope Tool, produces an overall shape distortion. But w

74 Lines, Curves, and Shapes Applying envelopes An envelope distortion is one that you can apply to any object to change its shape without having t

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 75 • Select the object(s) with the Envelope Tool. DrawPlus automatically selects the Node tool when an envelope is applie

76 Lines, Curves, and Shapes To create a connection: 1. Select Connector Tool on the Line Tools flyout (Drawing toolbar). Hover over an object s

Lines, Curves, and Shapes 77 Connector types The Connector Tool, when selected, offers various types of connector tool on the Connectors context t

78 Lines, Curves, and Shapes

Using Brushes 5

Contents 12. Publishing and Sharing ... 243 Previewing the printed page ...

80 Using Brushes

Using Brushes 81 Selecting brushes DrawPlus supports a wide range of brushes, all capable of producing: natural brush effects: natural media (char

82 Using Brushes The Brushes tab lets you select a brush type from a range of natural (opposite), spray or photo-based categories. You can also vie

Using Brushes 83 Applying brush strokes The Paintbrush Tool is used exclusively to apply brush strokes to the page. The tool is used in conjuncti

84 Using Brushes 5. (Optional) Enable to leave the brush stroke selected on the page or, if disabled, leaves it deselected. 6. (Optional) Enable

Using Brushes 85 To change brush stroke properties: • Use the Brushes context toolbar to adjust the properties of a drawn brush stroke once applied

86 Using Brushes The pressure chart may appear a little daunting at first! It becomes a lot clearer if you imagine the chart when it is superimpos

Using Brushes 87 To create a new pressure profile: 1. Click . This sets the pressure chart back to default. 2. A turquoise line runs along the max

88 Using Brushes You can set the degree to which width and opacity changes either independently or in combination. Let’s look at some examples... b

Using Brushes 89 To adjust brush width or opacity with pressure: 1. Select a previously drawn brush. 2. In the Pressure tab, pick a pressure profi