Drawing Guides

Ellipse

The ellipse drawing guide helps you create perfect circles and ellipses around a common center point in your artwork.

Enable the Ellipse Drawing Guides#

In order to enable the ellipse drawing guides:

1. Tap on Actions and then on Enable Guides.
2. If a different type of drawing guide was previously selected, tap on Actions followed by Edit Guides to open the drawing guides settings in the inspector.
3. In the inspector under Drawing Guides -> Type, select Ellipse.
4. Adjust the ellipse properties as desired.
5. Press Done to finish editing the ellipse drawing guide properties.

Properties#

Opacity#

The opacity of the drawing guide lines on the canvas.

Color#

The color of the drawing guide lines on the canvas.

Drawing Assist#

If enabled, all of your brush strokes will automatically snap to follow the closest ellipse shape defined by the drawing guide. This allows you to easily draw perfect circles and ellipses around the center point of the drawing guide.
If you simply want to use the ellipse drawing guide as a visual aid without affecting your brush strokes, disable this option.

Position, Rotation and Size#

To move, rotate or resize the ellipse, use the control handles that appear on the canvas while editing the ellipse drawing guide properties.

Handle Snapping#

Whether the ellipse control handles on the canvas should snap to relevant positions on the canvas when being moved.

Reset#

Reset the properties of the ellipse drawing guide to their default values.

Cancel#

Press this button to discard the most recent changes made to the drawing guide properties and to remove the control handles from the canvas.

Done#

Press this button to finish editing the drawing guide properties, remove the control handles from the canvas and to show the selected layer properties in the inspector again.