Drawing Guides

Grid

The grid drawing guide displays a 2D grid on the canvas to help you draw straight lines, subdivide your drawing space and maintain consistent proportions in your artwork.

Enable the Grid Drawing Guides#

In order to enable the grid 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 Grid.
4. Adjust the grid properties as desired.
5. Press Done to finish editing the grid drawing guide properties.

Properties#

Size#

The size of the grid cells in pixels.

Opacity#

The opacity of the grid lines on the canvas.

Color#

The color of the grid lines on the canvas.

Drawing Assist#

If enabled, all of your brush strokes will automatically snap to be either horizontal or vertical lines. This allows you to easily draw straight lines along the grid axes. Note that this does not lock your brush strokes to the visible grid lines themselves, so the size of the grid has no effect on the drawing behaviour.
If you simply want to use the grid as a visual aid without affecting your brush strokes, disable this option.

Position and Rotation#

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

Handle Snapping#

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

Reset#

Reset the properties of the grid 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.