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  • 1. Pixel grid
  • 2. Canvas grid
  • 3. Canvas border
  • 4. Clip reference layers
  • 5. Guide line
  • 6. Canvas rotation
  • 7. x00% zoom snapping
  • 8. Drawing preview size threshold
  • 9. Canvas resize
  • 10. Canvas flip
  • 11. Reset layout

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  1. Settings

Canvas

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1. Pixel grid

If this option is on, when zooming in above some certain threshold, the pixel bounds will be shown.

1.1 Threshold

Adjust the threshold to dictate when the pixel will show. The bigger the threshold, the more we have to zoom in before the grid will appear.

2. Canvas grid

Use this option to customize the checkerboard pattern on the canvas (colors, size), or turn it off completely.

This config is saved with the file, so it will reset each time we create a new file, but it gives us the ability to customize the canvas grid for files individually

3. Canvas border

Just a border around the canvas. The color border (black or white) will be determined based on the canvas background color.

We can turn this off if we find it distracting.

4. Clip reference layers

Reference layers by default can display outside of the working canvas. Turn this option on to clip any content of the reference layers outside of the canvas.

5. Guide line

The canvas grid is great, but it's rendered below the content. If we need a grid to help us with the compositing of the content, we can turn this option on. When turned on, we can tap on the edit button to change the settings for guide line.

Show in preview

Enable this option if we want to show the guide line in the little preview of our canvas

6. Canvas rotation

With this option on, we can rotate the canvas with 2 finger twisting gesture.

If we want the canvas rotation to snap to 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees, turn on the "90-degree snapping" sub-option.

7. x00% zoom snapping

Turn on this option to snap the zoom scale of the canvas to whole numbers (100%, 200%, 300%, and so on)

8. Drawing preview size threshold

On supported devices, when we hover the pencil over the screen, a live preview of pixels will be shown on the canvas to show us how it will look when applied.

Some users find it annoying when the preview is shown even for small sizes, this setting was added so that we can dictate when the preview is shown: only when the size is equal to or bigger than the threshold.

9. Canvas resize

This is where we find the current size of the canvas. If we need to resize it, we can do that here too.

10. Canvas flip

We do that layer by layer, frame by frame with the move tool, or we can use this option and everything will be flipped in a finger snap.

11. Reset layout

Pixquare allows us to customize its UI however we'd like, but sometimes we overdo it and just want everything to return to its original position and size. Use this button to do that.

Similar to the , this is saved with each file

With the , we can flip the selected content. But what if we want to flip everything on the canvas horizontally or vertically?

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