Autodesk Sketchbook Keyboard Shortcuts
Armanda Kicks
I would like keyboard shortcuts on the iOS/Android versions of SketchBook. In addition to an ipad pro, I also have a Wacom Companion 2. The Wacom has these nice programmable hard keys on the left side that allow for 2 handed interaction with the app, such as Undo, or increase/decrease brush size, without having to use the touchscreen controls. It is a huge time-saver. So, we could then use our Bluetooth keyboards or hopefully some programmable keypads to offload some of the work to each hand.
Is there a fast way of resizing the brush in Adobe Animate/Flash? In Photoshop, for example, you hold alt + right button and drag, or you can right click anywhere and slide the slider that pops up. In Toon Boom Harmony you just hold O and drag left/right, and in Autodesk Sketchbook you hold the brush on a bit of ui and slide left/right. The only shortcut I've found in Animate is pressing '[' and ']' which make the brush size bigger/smaller in 1 pixel increments. Since often you want to change from, say, a 10 pixel brush to a 50 pixel brush, you would have to press the ']' button 40 times, which...isn't really a shortcut? Gonna say that's actually a longcut maybe? Does anyone have a better way of doing this? Seems like a pretty basic thing to want to do!
Coming from the Photoshop side of things, Shift + [ or ] modifies the size by 10x In my case the up/down keyboard arrows increments a brush size by 1, pressing the Shift key jumps it by increments of 10. I'm not sure how Animate does things, but hold down the Shift key while pressing the square brackets should make your brush size change quicker.
Yup, thanks, I'm aware of that, but I'm looking for a shortcut, like in photoshop, toon boom harmony, autodesk sketchbook and so on. I'm drawing on a cintiq 13, which means I don't have space on the screen for the (enormous) property palette, so whenever I need to change brush size (which happens a lot) I have to either toggle over to the other display (super fiddly on the wacom), slide the slider and toggle back again, which is pretty rubbish, or I press the ridiculous '[' shortcuts. Since tons of other painting software, including adobe software, has shortcuts where you can hold a button and slide the cursor to resize the brush, or other faster ways of doing it, I was hoping Adobe Animate also had a way of doing that. Sounds like it doesn't though Maybe that should be a feature request....
I'm beginning to think there isn't a way of doing this, in which case it would be a feature request, although imho it's pretty insane that after over 20 years of development this software still doesn't have a good way of changing the brush size, seems like a relatively basic thing for an animator to want
I used a digitizer tablet 25 years ago for Autocad 14. My nephew works for Falcon's Creative Group in Orlando doing theme park design and they seem to be using a mix of Wacom tablets AND Wacom Cintiq onscreen drawing computer/monitors.
Has anyone been able to implement a tablet, Wacom or any other brand, with a stylus pen rather than a puck/mouse? The reason I'm thinking of this is, I'd like to also use the stylus for redlining pdf drawings and a stylus is more intuitive than a mouse. I've also looked at an IPAD using Morpholio Trace or Procreate, but I'm not an Apple fan and I'm not really interested in adding any Apple products to my office workflow.
Yeah, that old puck with the crosshairs and the tablet menu was amazing for AutoCAD. I've tried to implement a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet without success, but maybe I didn't give it enough time. I found it difficult to be precise with the point entry as a tap, and the lack of additional buttons on the pen slowed me down without the keyboard shortcuts. However, even though my main desktop is Windows, I have an iPad Pro with both Morpholio Trace and Procreate. An iPad with an Apple Pencil and these apps is AWESOME, and worth the money for these apps alone, not to mention having the LiDAR on the iPad Pro. I have no problem going back and forth between the iPad and Windows. The key to making this work is having a "paper-like" screen protector that makes using the pencil feel more like a paper experience. It also works really well with note-taking apps like Notability. I frankly wouldn't mind doing everything on the iPad Pro (recommend the 12.9 inch model), except keeping the desktop mostly for Chief. The iPad is great for taking to jobsites or meetings where you then have a camera as well as handwriting. In Notability for example, you can do a punch list that includes photographs of the issues, and email to everyone directly from the jobsite when you're finished.
I use a 27" Wacom Cintiq for both drawing, sketching, modeling, and a second monitor. I've come to like a top/bottom config for 2 monitor setup better than side-to-side....especially since i can start drawing on the lower monitor anytime I want.
I don't use Chief a lot with the Wacom, but I have. However, I LOVE using it with Vectorworks and other drawing apps like Concepts. I use it a LOT and found it helps to have an architectural drafting height table.
I have an iPad Pro with both Morpholio Trace and Procreate. An iPad with an Apple Pencil and these apps is AWESOME, and worth the money for these apps alone, not to mention having the LiDAR on the iPad Pro. I have no problem going back and forth between the iPad and Windows. iPad Pro (recommend the 12.9 inch model), except keeping the desktop mostly for Chief.
Nice setup. I don't do much sketching and modeling anymore. My office has become more utilitarian, and the need for easy redlining of drawings is a bigger need. I'm traveling more between NY and Florida, and need a good option for redlining pdf checkprints produced by my staff. I want to be able to do redlining anywhere......at the airport, on a plane, at a coffee table, in bed......anywhere I can squeeze in some productivity time.
It looks like it'll be either an Ipad Pro, or my existing Samsung Chromebook plus with Kami pdf and the included stylus. Dam Ipads are freaking expensive, plus apple pen, plus floating keyboard. Jeez I hate Apple.
The keyboard is optional. But with it, you are essentially getting a new laptop. For about 1/2 the price of a new Chief license. In the overall scheme of things, with the time you can save, it's cheap. I love Apple. (And I'm a Windows guy.)
EDIT: If you are dead set against Apple iOS, you could get a Microsoft Surface Pro with Windows 10. A low end model might set you back about $700 and then you could get Bluebeam Revu for PDF redlining. (about $350). I have a Surface Pro, too, and it's a nice machine, and you can run Chief on it (except for rendering, which is really slow without a dedicated graphics card) but Morpholio Trace might bring back the fun of architecture. That's worth a few hundred bucks, eh?
Nice work Jonny! If you have Vectorworks then why are you on Chief? Do you use Chief as well. Love the way Concepts looks with your Design and wish I could have that same with Chief. Not going to get started on another program though.
I do use Chief as well right now, but I am transitioning away from it. My team will be on Chief for the next year or so until we're finally moved over - but we'll still keep a couple copies for accessing older files etc.
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This cartoon (with the political commentary left out) was drawn and painted entirely with the Bamboo Splash in Photoshop and it worked very well. While I did keep reaching for the Express Keys and Touch Ring of the Intuos5 out of habit, once I got used to their absence and reverted to using keyboard shortcuts or drop down menus in Photoshop, I was able to work smoothly and still got my cartoon out to my newspapers on time.
So I just purchased this program for digital painting, coming from photoshop and clip studio pro, however one thing stands out straight away which weird there is no rotate tool or an intuitive way to rotate? you have to hold alt and middle mouse button? which is really inconvenient for digital illustration since im not using a mouse i use a pen and tablet.
in every other software you would hold R or press R to rotate, is there a way i can change the keybinds to hold R to rotate?
If you actually took the time to read my post, i explained why alt + scroll wheel doesnt work.
I took the time to asses the program, for digital illustration affinity it just not there, the brush engine is lacking, you cant rotate untuitively, there was alot of lag when i opened the program, brush lag was a huge issue.
Honestly compared to clip studio paint and photoshop I switch between, I was looking for a program i can own rather than having to pay a subscription, clip studio is switching to a subscription model next year so i was looking at affinity.
Honestly after just using it for an hour I could tell that this software was no where near the standards it should be for digital illustration, maybe its more aimed at graphic designers but in terms of illustrating and doing art it just felt so bad and clunky and unoptimized.
out of all the art software that ive tried: corel painter, krita, clip studio paint, corel painter, PS... this was hands down the worst and most unoptimized software for art and illustration which is very sad, because i was really excited to try it all the videos on affinity all had great reviews, however after looking into it more it seems affinity has been sponsoring creators to make them say positive things only about this software, which is disheartening I really thought i stumbled upon a program that cares about artists and designers.
I have already submitted my refund request, so theres no need to answer my initial question anymore.