Create and name canvas planes
Create a new canvas plane
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Click the view you want to create a canvas plane on and choose Canvas > New Canvas
.The option box opens. If you select a brush and click in a view that does not contain a canvas plane, Alias automatically opens the New Canvas option box, prompting you to create a default canvas plane.
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Set the Orientation (view window), Background layer color, Paper size and resolution for your canvas, then click OK.
A blank canvas plane containing one canvas layer and a background layer is created in the view you specified. The new canvas appears in a special Paint window, on top of the regular view window, ready for sketching.
Start a new painting session
If you chose the Paint workflow setting when you launched Alias, choosing File > New opens an option window allowing you to select the parameters (color, orientation, width, height, etc) for a new canvas. All other canvases are removed.
The new canvas appears in a special Paint window, on top of the regular view windows, ready for sketching, just as when using Canvas > New Canvas .
Name a canvas plane
- Double-click on the canvas plane name.
- Type in the new name and press
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Related Tasks
- Set up Alias for sketching
- Set the background color
- Change your view of a canvas plane
- Import an image as a new canvas