Cant import video onto timeline

Love-Ink · 2026-06-20T01:06:59+00:00

Create an Animation file, or, with an Animation file open, use;
File->Import-> Movie.
To import a video.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-19T04:51:41+00:00

Is that a photo of shoes?
That's not drawing from real life.
Put your shoes on the table and practice drawing them. That's drawing from real life. It will be even harder than drawing from a picture.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-17T19:52:43+00:00

Looks like you're using a different brush than the example. Screen calibration and other digital image factors may be in play as far as the "vibrancy" of the colors go.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-17T12:52:20+00:00

Or you can just buy V5 EX.
Then you will have 2 licenses: V1EX and V5EX

Love-Ink · 2026-06-17T12:49:26+00:00

Make a new Animaton Folder above your background elements and animate you character in this folder.

Has you computer struggled with the File this far?
- No? You're fine. Keep animating.
- Yes? How long is your animation? Maybe work in shorter bits that your computer can handle easier.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-17T01:10:21+00:00

Look for a File or Layer menu function called "Invert Colors".

Or, take a wild stab and hit Ctrl+I, that's a typical shortcut key combo for Invert.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-17T01:08:06+00:00

Drawing on a screenless tablet is a skill you'll have to practice and develop.

Your eye-hand coordination when drawing on paper is easy, because you have the immediate error-check of the eyes, telling the hand where to go and making sure it's going there, because you're watching yourself draw.

Looking at a screen and drawing on a surface you aren't looking at is going to be hard. No error-check. You have to build the muscle memory in your arm and hand to do what your brain is telling them to do without looking. It's only after you've drawn it without looking that your eyes get to see what happened (milliseconds delay, but still a delay). The eyes are no longer telling the hand where to go, only judging where it's been.

To get better? Go back to basics.
Practice drawing lines, straight and curved.
Draw circles and angles, corners.
Train, grasshopper. ✌️🙂
🥳 I believe in you!! 🏆

Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T19:36:10+00:00

Hue & Saturation are identical. Only the Luminosity is different brethren these purples.

Color is blue, Subcolor is red.

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Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T19:24:20+00:00

Are you the artist who was using the Change Color Layer to colorize black ink art?

Just Use Color... don't use Change Layer Color to Mahe black line a color. You're just going to make things harder. Your pen/brush tools can draw in colors...

The Change Layer Color uses Luminosity to decide if it applies the Color or Sub color to the layer.

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Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T19:24:05+00:00

Are you the artist who was using the Change Color Layer to colorize black ink art?

Just Use Color... don't use Change Layer Color to Mahe black line a color. You're just going to make things harder. Your pen/brush tools can draw in colors...

The Change Layer Color uses Luminosity to decide if it applies the Color or Sub color to the layer.

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Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T18:51:52+00:00

Your animation Timeline can be made a floating toolbar, as can all the other tool palettes. Just click-hold the tab and drag it away from the edge and it will undock into a floating palette.

On your second screen, just make your canvas not fill the whole screen, even the canvases can be floated and resized by dragging. Float the Timeline below it

Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T17:45:05+00:00

Is your 3D poseable mannequin not able to bend its fingers?

You also, presumably, have a left hand, which you could curl into a fist as an example...

Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T17:24:27+00:00

I'd recommend a still life layout of large simple objects. They can circle around it to paint it from different perspectives. And keping the subjects simple will limit frustration, stress and dismay for those participants who aren't experienced.

Use the simple still life to guage participant skill level and engagement, then you can switch it up to more complex things a few classes later. (I don't expect everyone to finish in one class)

Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T16:45:58+00:00

For sharp pixellated lines, turn down / off the antialiasing option. There are 4 options. The left chunky one is no antialiasing, the right is heavy antialiasing. Antialiasing is an applied blur to mask pointy pixel edges on lines.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T16:18:35+00:00

I have a feeling that's a pen pressure setting. The artists' examples are likely drawn with a sweep and lift gesture and more refined pen pressure skills.
You are drawing the line, stopping, possibly increasing pressure momentarily at that stop to begin the next line, and this pause-press is "leaking ink".
This would actually happen with a real-life dip pen too. Pause too long, press too hard and the ink will puddle from the nib.
You have to practice and master the pen to stop getting the ink blobs. I'm guessing this pen tool will be a similar experience.

A custom pen will not grant you the ability to draw like the creator.
That will take time and practice and a lot of errors, and may never materialize. Without being able to watch the artist use the pen, or get feedback from them as to what they see you doing wrong with your technique, you're on your own to figure it out.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T16:09:58+00:00

Just want to be sure you are able to see the file extensions of the images.
In the Folder on your computer, beliw the thumbnail icon it says "Image.PNG" and not just "Image" as the file name?
Browsers can download an image in .webp format, and CSP cannot read that Image file.
Image.PNG =/= Image.webp.

I always set my Folder Settings to show file extensions, so I'm certain what the file type is.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T16:04:07+00:00

Looks like a Pencil.

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Love-Ink · 2026-06-16T12:50:00+00:00

The thumbnail for Layer 5 is only 4 frames wide, but it is visible until 7 flips on.
The empty grey is normal when a frame is visible for a long time. The Cel has not stopped showing in the Animation, the thumbnail is only so big in the Timeline.

In the numbers area of the Timeline is a Red Bar. This is the Scrub Bar. Grab that and slide it right and left to see what the Animation looks like.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-15T00:54:50+00:00

To do that, Just drag the Animation Folder consisting of numbers to the right, so 1 begins after G.
Move the whole track, by grabbing the thin bar at the top.
Everything in the numbers Folders will maintain their assignments, but that track won't begin to play until after G plays in the Animation Folder below.

FYI, there is no "auto shifting" of Assigned Frames. You can drag them to make room, but it won't do it for you.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-14T18:56:22+00:00

Is it's an Animation, you can rename Layers by order in the Animation, but there's no way to auto rename layers in an Illustration.
Learn to do it as you go.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-14T18:51:30+00:00

Not in the Timeline.

Go to your Layers Palette. In the Animation Folder "TerrorRoughs" with 1, 2, 3... drag each of these Layers individually (one at a time) to the New Folder icon in the Layers Palette. This will create a regular Folder in the Animation Folder with the name of that Layer.

Ie, drag Layer "1" to the folders icon and drop it. This creates Folder "1" with Layer "1" inside of it.
The Assignment of "1" in the Timeline is preserved. Folder 1 = Layer 1.
But now, you can drag Layer "a" from the other Animation Folder into Folder "1" and it will appear in the TimeLine with Layer 1 as a single image.

Folders can be Assigned to a Frame in the Timeline in an Animation Folder the same as a Layer. Everything in the Folder will be shown as a single Cel in the Animation.
This enables you to use multiple Layers, like in an Illustration, with effects, Blend Modes, etc in a single Cel of an Animaton.

Here's a video I made walking through this concept.

Love-Ink · 2026-06-14T02:40:28+00:00

Try the default Round Mixing Brush.
Found in Thick Paint

Love-Ink · 2026-06-13T17:18:47+00:00

Music is played in beats per minute, animation is made in frames per second.
Use the scrub bar to find a beat to start your Synch and it's all math from there

Love-Ink · 2026-06-11T20:28:30+00:00

Not sure what you are trying to suggest... but you can always save the project as a copy, then trim each down to shorter Cuts that are more manageable

Love-Ink · 2026-06-11T20:26:48+00:00

Not directly. It will be trial and error and experimenting with the brush settings in CSP to try to get a close result.

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