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Lazy guide
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Overview

A hand stabilizer.

Lazy guide is a stabilizer that allows you to draw smoother freehand lines. It adds a "link" that drags the actual tip of your brush behind your stylus or finger

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The guide line

shows the direction of movement. You can adjust the direction without moving the brush tip.

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The circle

indicates the radius (the distance between your stylus and the brush tip)


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Guide radius slider

Set your preferred value experimentally. Note that value zero means zero effect.

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Elastic mode

When active, the radius of the guide increases dynamically with the velocity (speed) of the stroke. For this option to work you may need to set a large radius value.


Tip

Note that significantly better smoothing effect you may achieve by increasing the Smooth parameter in the brush settings. See Brush Editor — Stroke tab.