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Share drawing - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

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Share drawing

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- [Instructor] Let's say you want to reuse a background drawing over and over in your storyboard, but, then the director asks for just one small change. Now it might seem like a small change, unless you've already drawn or copied that image dozens of times in your storyboard. Now, if you had used share drawing, all you would have to do is make the fix on any one of those shared images and the rest of them will be updated instantly. So let's take a look at creating and using shared images. Now I've got a quick little shot here where I've got my character up hanging from this container, but the drawings earlier, I don't have the background in yet. Now, I have already taken my multiple layers and combined them into just one layer, and I called it container. So, to make this a shared image that I can use in the other ones, I'm going to right-click on that layer, and I'm going to click on share drawing. Now, if you look over here on these other tabs, you go to library, you've got multiple libraries, go to the shared library, and I'm going to look for one named container, the name of the layer. I've got a bunch of cloud ones there, should be right after that, oh, here it is, container. All right, so let's go back one panel. I need it there. I'm just going to drag it in. Wait a minute, I got rid of my guy, why? Because, all new layers always end up on top in Storyboard Pro. Simply, drag it down, below the other layers, there it is. Let's go to this one, same thing, I'll just drag in my shared drawing. I'm going to move it down, below my character, and there he is. Okay, now the director comes in, says, I just need a couple bullet holes put in this from an earlier fight. All right, well, looking at the layer, I see I've got that little star next to name. That means it's shared, it's shared, it's shared. So, I'll pick any one of these. Let's do the middle one, not the one we started with, and I'm now going to quickly draw a few bullet holes. They don't need to be anything fancy. All right, so now I've got a few bullet holes here. Let's go, oh, look at that. All three of my panels have those bullet holes in it, but what if in this third panel, as he's about to get out of the way, more bullet holes show up but I don't want them showing up in these others? Well, it's very easy to unshare. Go to my shared layer, right-click, and select unlink from shared drawing. So now, I'm going to put a few more bullet holes. They're getting close to him. Put that little highlight rim on them. Notice, there's no little star asterisk next to the name container. Let's go to an early drawing, oh, they're not there. So that worked exactly the way I wanted it to. So, a little forethought on setting up and using shared drawings, can save you hours of work from just one small change.

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