

If in the event that you need to move your layers up or down, in the second image below marked in red, this icon will move your layers above or below other layers. To select this layer simply click it once and it will have a blue edge and hue like in the below image. The original named background and a new one called Layer 1 as displayed below.

This will give you the maximum when it comes to pressure and everything else related to your tablet. Then go to stylus responsiveness and take it all the way to the end. Now that I've shown you where everything is, next to explore is Preferences, under Edit menu.The up and down arrows is how you can drag your layers above or below other layers and the padlock is to lock or unlock layer transparency. The eyeball icon is the show hide layer function. When you wish to make your choice, drag to the icon, if you change your mind and don't want to, then drag back to the centre to not select anything. These options include delete, duplicate, merge all or merge down and rename as well as hide layer. Click+Hold+Drag and more options will appear. Now this is the part that gets a little bit fiddly and it's easy to make a mistake. This contains your photoshop like things such as multiply etc for those beautiful colouring effects but it's limited, there's not as much as PS. Below where it says normal is your layer blending modes. The next icon adds text, the next is import image and the last icon clears the canvas. This kind of annoys me but you get use to it and it's a much faster way to use layers, I must admit that. Next thing I want to explain is the layers window.Edit the settings and you'll have a pretty crazy paint brush. You can also make custom brushes this way by making a doodle and capturing a part of it. depending on the type of tool, different things will be available to adjust. Clicking edit will give you more choices of brushes to use and edit. Here you can change pretty much everything about your brush and how it functions.

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If you hover long enough windows tips will tell you what it is. If it's not the icon you need, go to the centre and release and you will not pick a tool. Click and hold then drag but don't release, drag onto an icon that pops up in this area and if it's the tool you need, release your click over the icon. The next thing marked in red, I didn't know what to call it other than options and settings but I found out it's called the Lagoon.All of these tools can also be found under the Window tab at the top. It depends on how much room you'd like on your canvas) Colour wheel show/hide and last is the Copic library. If you click this you can display the tools or hide them. Pens (this opens all your drawing tools, mine is open and you can see the choices. Mine is already open in the image below). The last set of tools are the Layers panel pop up (this opens the layers panel window. Good for artists with shakey hands) then the line tool, rectangle drawing tool, polyline tool and ellipsis tool. The next tool is the Freehand drawing then the steady stroke (smooth drawing, control how smooth you want your inking to be. You can't move them around, the always stay in the center. The strange almost hour glass icons are the Horizontal symmetry, verticle symmetry tools. Next is the straight ruler, ellipsis ruler, french curves ruler. The next tool is the Move and Rotate and Scale tool image. You can pan around the canvas using the zoom tool. Zoom which also functions as the hand/move tool. 2nd, rectangle select and Marquee tool/selection tool. I'll tell you what each icon is and it's function.
