Three Places To Slide in Clip Studio Paint
Unless you have one of the higher end Wacom Cintiqs, you’re not drawing on your computer screen with your finger. You’re still point-and-clicking or tapping with your stylus, not tapping with your finger.
One of the touch screen things that occasionally comes in handy is the ability to slide across a screen for various effects.
Clip Studio Paint includes the ability to slide in a few places you might not otherwise think of. I want to highlight three of those places today.
Zoom
Maybe you use the slider at the bottom of the window. Maybe you use the CMD-+ combination to zoom in. Maybe you have CMD-0 and CMD-APPLE-0 memorized to zoom into window size and pixel size, respectively.
But you can also slide your way there through the Zoom tool. Click the forward slash button on the bottom right of your keyboard. (That’s the same one you type in a URL.) That puts you into Zoom mode. Then, tap or click and hold. Slide to the left to zoom out, and slide to the right to zoom in.
I also just noticed recently that a two finger swipe up and down on an Apple Magic Trackpad will zoom in and out as well. (Swipe down to zoom in, and vice versa.)
Then, of course, you can hold down the space bar and slide around the screen to re-center the image as you like it. (The keyboard shortcut there is “H” for the Hand tool.)
Fill
Say you have a string of connected areas you want to fill in. You can use the Fill tool (‘G’) and click on each segment to color it in. Or, you can can click on the first segment and then slide across all the connected segments before letting go at the last one. That’ll fill them all in for you.
Just be careful with this technique. If you stray outside the lines, you’ll fill other random areas in, too.
Layers
This is a trick I showed once before already, but for the sake of completeness, let’s recap: You can hide and show layers with the little eye to the left of each layer in the Layers window. It’s a simple toggle on and off. If you click or tap on one and then slide across any number of those eyeballs, you’ll turn all those layers either on or off.
All layers you slide across will be on or off when you’re done. This won’t flip their bit. This will only change all the layers to the new state the first layer winds up in.
Are There More?
Let me know if you have other such ways to slide around Clip Studio Paint in non-obvious ways. Drop a line in the comments below. I’d love to find more to report back with.
