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User Guide
All Selects all strokes on a layer.
None Deselects all strokes on a layer. (Available only if some strokes are selected.)
Visible Selects all strokes visible at the current frame.
Current Time Selects all strokes that were drawn at the current time position. (Playback
Speed does not affect the original start time of strokes.)
Last Painted Selects the last-painted brush stroke (or erase stroke). If you painted several
strokes with the Shift key held down, this command selects that group of strokes.
Similar With one or more strokes selected, this selects additional strokes with similar
Brush Settings properties. If strokes with dissimilar properties are initially selected, this
command selects a broader range of strokes.
Inverse Toggles to a selection of all unselected strokes, leaving the previously selected
strokes unselected.
After you select one or more strokes, you can use keyboard shortcuts to transform them,
such as by rotating, scaling (vertically, horizontally, or both), or nudging (repositioning
one pixel at a time). For a list of these shortcuts, see online Help.
Editing brush strokes by changing settings
After strokes are drawn, you can edit their Brush Settings by selecting them and choosing
new settings. When you select a single stroke or strokes with the same Brush Settings, you
can edit the enabled Brush Settings in the Effect Controls window. Your changes to the
strokes immediately appear in the Composition window as you complete them.
When you select multiple strokes that have different Brush Settings, a question mark [-?-]
appears next to that Brush Setting in the Effect Controls window. If you edit that value, all
of the selected strokes are reset to the new value. For example, if you select strokes with
different Radius values, a question mark appears in place of the Radius setting. If you then
type a new Radius value of 5.0 (for example), all the selected strokes will have a Radius
value of 5.0.
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