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Coloring grouped layers

Coloring grouped layers - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

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Coloring grouped layers

- [Instructor] In earlier versions of Storyboard Pro, you had to draw and color on one layer in order to move or transform a layer. That made it difficult to make changes to the coloring of layer and it made organizing layers harder. Now, with grouped layers we can draw and color on separate layers and then group them, so that as we move or transform a group, all the layers in group are affected at the same time. Now, I used to have to use the draw behind tool when I was coloring on one layer. And the way I would do that is select my brush tool and then, if I select this little button underneath my pen options, the draw behind. I'm going to then select the color blue. I've got the foreground layer of this man selected. And if I go to color on here notice the lines, I'm drawing over the lines, but when I let go the coloring drops back behind the line. So, that's draw behind. The problem came if I wanted to edit the color or the line I really couldn't, because if I go to erase the blue…

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