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OK, great, Win10, got it 🙂
1) I think you might be talking about the area in the x-sheet that’s called “annotations”. In there you can scribble notes, draw charts or arcs or arrows or whatever. Also plan dialogue by writing out phonemes or letters. Mark key drawings and breakdowns, etc, etc… Just notes, like they did in the old analogue days too.
2) When you import an image or a sequence of images (video or animation), it automatically comes in as a reference layer. You can not draw on it or copy it to a normal layer. The only thing you can is copy/paste reference frames around, drag out clones, etc – everything regarding timing. What you import is bitmap (aka raster) images. You can draw “on top” a reference layer, by just adding a normal layer on top and draw there. When you draw inside AP you are able to rotate and not least scale your drawings or parts of drawings without loosing any information or getting any degradation or blurring.
3) Normally you would be back in draw mode when you get on to a normal layer – you might have been in some mode or had some tool selected since it didn’t happen for you. Or it could be a bug. Please keep and eye on this behaviour if it happens again. Thank you!
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Yeah, thought about it, but things change and get reprioritised internally all the time, so that would maybe be more confusing and frustrating for people. And I don’t mind at all if things come up several times from people like you – then I know it is probably important if multiple people feel the same.
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Came to think about it – and actually it wouldn’t have to be different. You could just see Esc a “cancel” – back to how it was. That would be the same for both cutter and lasso.
One reason as to why we have made it as it is now, might be because of the legacy of the old PAP. People loved how they could quickly cut a larger area out and just get rid of it. I.E. a way to erase something quickly without using the slower eraser tool. I know you could do that with your suggestion just hitting delete. But it was escape in PAP… Hmmm…
The way it works in AP now, is meant to be like Photoshop and so many other similar paint programs, but with one or two fewer steps in the process. When you draw a lasso in PS, you would then use Ctrl C or Ctrl X to copy or cut your lassoed area. Then you would paste to have access to move it around. If you then press Esc you would lose your selection, but if you used cut, it would still have that cut (blank) area. I don’t have PS in front of me right now, so I’m not entirely sure 😉 Am I mistaking?
Anyway, thanks for giving me stuff to think about! 😉
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Much appreciated Sam! Thank you.
You got a point. I will have to think about this some more. One concern I have is that to me it would be strange to have the esc functionality being different after picking up with lasso or cutter. I would think you would get used to how it works (one way or the other) but you would have to be conscious about how you picked the floating selection up before using esc.
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Yes, hitting Escape is how you exit your floating selection without stamping it down. If you need it back at some point you can hit Shift Escape.
How the lasso/cutter/floating-selection stuff are working is of course done with intend. It is supposed to work in the most effective way. You might not agree, so I am super interested in how you would you like it. How would it work, if it was completely up to you?
Thanks a lot Sam!
Best,
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