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Coloring grouped layers - Storyboard Pro Tutorial
From the course: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Essential Training
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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The basics of bitmap vs. vector layers5m 33s
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Using layers to speed up your work3m 37s
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Adding, duplicating, copying, pasting, and deleting a layer3m 51s
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Importing an image as a layer or scene5m 4s
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Understanding naming, ordering, and default layers2m 43s
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Group layers2m 18s
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Coloring grouped layers4m 11s
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Understanding layer adjustments3m 58s
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Radial and directional blurs7m 59s
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Blurring a layer4m 44s
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