Interface and Gestures

Use Selections to isolate parts of your art for repainting, editing, transforming, and more.

Gestures

With an active selection, you can protect the important parts of your artwork.

Selections enable you to make a range of edits to an isolated area of your artwork. Paint, smudge, erase, fill, and transform selected areas without affecting anything outside it.

Create

Tap the Selection button in the top menu. It will bring up the Selection toolbar, offering you a range of ways to define the area you'd like to edit. Explore these modes in greater detail below.

A moving dotted line displays the boundaries of any selection you make.

Undo and Redo

While drawing a selection, two-finger tap to Undo your last action, or three-finger tap to Redo .

Commit

Tap any other tool to commit your selection. Now, instead of a dotted line, the area outside your selection is shaded. This will appear as semi-transparent moving diagonal lines.

Edit

Once an area is selected, you can paint , smudge , erase , fill , and transform that area. You can do this while preserving everything around it untouched. Tap the tool you want to get started. Both the Selection button and the button you just tapped will now be highlighted.

Cancel

To cancel the selection you’ve made and exit back to your artwork, tap the Selection button again.

Interface

Select content with a fluid hand-drawn line. Tap to make a polygonal selection. Use a rectangle or ellipse to quickly grab the area you need. Or simply touch, and let the Automatic selection tool do the work for you.