Change your view of a canvas plane
How to track or dolly your view, set the zoom level percentage, view a canvas from behind, rotate your canvas, or reset your view to its original setting.
Tips
- Brushes are most responsive when you are viewing the canvas plane at its actual size (1:1 or 100%). Brush strokes may appear slow when you are zoomed out of a canvas plane; however, this is because the stroke is actually very large relative to the canvas plane.
- You can only track and dolly the view of a canvas plane that is in an orthographic view. You cannot track or dolly the view of a canvas plane that is in a perspective view.
- You can access the middle mouse button and right mouse button using the side button on your stylus.
Track the view of a canvas plane
Do one of the following:
- Hold down
+ 
and drag in the view with the 
. - Click the
button in the Paint window title bar and drag. - In the bottom of the Paint Panel click the
and then drag in the view.
Dolly the view of a canvas plane
Do one of the following:
- Hold down + and drag (left to zoom in, right to zoom out) in the view with the
. - Click the
button in the Paint window title bar and drag (right to dolly in, left to dolly out). - In the bottom of the Paint Panel click the
and then drag in the view. To dolly in, drag to the right. To dolly out, drag to the left.
Set the zoom level percentage
Click the 
button in the Paint window title bar, and select a zoom level from the menu.
In an orthographic window, selecting a zoom level dollies the camera for that view. In a perspective window, selecting a zoom level scales the size of the canvas plane.
Rotate the canvas
Click the 
button in the Paint window title bar and drag (to the right to rotate clockwise, to the left to rotate counter-clockwise).
View a canvas plane at its actual size (1:1 or 100%)
Click the button in the Paint window title bar, and select 100% from the menu.
View a canvas from behind
-
Click the
button in the Paint window title barThe canvas view is reversed, and you are looking at it from behind.
-
Click the
button again to revert to the front-facing view.
Reset the view of a canvas plane to its default view
Click the 
button in the Paint window title bar.