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If you are looking to change your view and navigate around the canvas, check below for how to do this for the platform you're on.
INFORMATION: Other ways to change your view - If you want to move, scale, or rotate your canvas, see Transforming canvases. To frame your image or resize it, see Resizing images.
In the Lagoon, contains lots of tools for changing your view that you’ll probably use all the time, such as View Snap, Fit to View, and Actual Size.
If you are an Enterprise customer using a 4K high-DPI display, see View SketchBook Pro on a 4K high DPI display for how to change your view.
Learn how to zoom in and out, move around, and view an image’s actual size or fit it to view.
Tap and flick toward or press and hold down the spacebar to access the puck.
Cintiqs and some tablets have a touch strip for zooming. Position your cursor over the area you want to zoom in or out of. Move your finger along the touch strip in an upward motion to zoom in or a downward motion to zoom out.
For the actual pixel size of an image, tap and flick toward or press Option+Cmd+0 (zero) for Mac or Alt+Ctrl+0 (zero) for Windows.
To expand or shrink an image, tap and flick toward or press Cmd+0 (zero) for Mac or Ctrl+0 (zero) for Windows.
Enterprise version of SketchBook Pro customers will need to do the following to view SketchBook Pro properly on 4K high DPI displays:
Right-click the SketchBook Enterprise icon and select Properties from its menu.
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Tap the Compatibility tab.
Tap Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by to add a check and enable it.
From the Application drop-down menu, select System.
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Tap Apply.
Zoom in on or out of an area of your sketch, or move around the canvas and change your view, use split-screen view, or transform your iPad or iPhone into a drawing tablet with Astropad.
Zoom in to see details and have finer control when sketching and painting.
With two fingers, drag and expand on the canvas to zoom in.
To zoom in further, repeat this action as many times as necessary.
With two fingers, drag the canvas to change its placement.
Use zooming out for when you want to have a better view of the overall composition.
With two fingers, pinch the canvas.
To zoom out further, repeat this action as many times as necessary.
You can use your finger(s) to freely rotate the canvas.
Twist with two fingers to rotate the content on all layers.
You can use your finger(s) to freely move the canvas.
Drag with two fingers in any direction to move the canvas.
Set a corner tool to Frame Canvas (see Customizing the corner tools) and tap it to instantly change what you see and display the full canvas.
SketchBook Pro support split-screen multi-tasking, using Split View and/or Slide Over.
Slide Over is a peek-in-peek-out type function and is only available for the iPad mini 4 and iPad Pro.
Split View is the Apple version of split-screen multitasking. Without leaving your work in SketchBook Pro, if you want to check on something in a secondary app, swipe in from the right of your screen for an overlay of that app.
Depending on the model of your device, you will have Split View and/or Slide Over functionality. For additional information on these, click here.
If you don’t have a tablet device to use with SketchBook Pro, but own an iPhone, iPad, or iPad Pro – you can simply use your existing device(s) as an input tool with SketchBook. With a pen stylus, pair it with Astropad for pressure-sensitivity input, while drawing.
To download Astropad for your iPad, see the links below:
Share your art made with SketchBook Pro and Astropad on Astropad with #Astropad.
On Windows 10, you can use your middle mouse wheel to zoom in and out of the canvas. You can also use gestures to zoom, fit your image to the view, pan around the canvas, and rotate around a point.
You can use your finger(s) to freely move, scale, and rotate the layer or use the Transform tools to move in a constrained direction, flip, or rotate 90 degrees in either directions.
Drag with your finger to move the content of a layer
Pinch to scale down (shrink) and expand two fingers to scale up (enlarge) the content of a layer
Twist with two fingers to rotate the content of a layer
double-tap the screen to reset the content of a layer to its original position/orientation
When transforming a layer, keep in mind that any content that is resized and expands beyond the size of the canvas (not your view) will be cropped off. Undoing this action will restore the content; otherwise, it is lost.