From the course: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Essential Training
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Flipping an image horizontally or vertically - Storyboard Pro Tutorial
From the course: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Essential Training
Flipping an image horizontally or vertically
- You never know what a director is going to ask for. They may ask you to change the direction of the character's looking, or to flip any element in your frame. Luckily, Storyboard Pro makes it really easy to flip any layer or any selection, both horizontally and vertically. Let's take a look at the second panel, which is seen 27 panel two. What I'd like to do here is click on the ink layer, that's got our boy on it. Let's play around with that a little bit. Now, flipping works equally well on both bitmap layers and vector layers, and on text. So, let's take a look at this. We've got a vector layer here of the boy. Now if I haven't selected anything, the entire layer is going to be adjusted by what I do. Now, when I have my selector tool chosen, my Tool Properties shows some icons for flipping horizontal and flipping vertical. If I click on flip horizontal, there he goes. Wait a minute, he is behind that wall. So, let's get rid of the coloring for our foreground element, there we can…
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