To return to freestyle stroke mode, tap to exit Predictive Stroke. When zoomed tightly into your image, less detail is lost. More detail is removed from your stroke, making it smoother when you’re zoomed out. Your view in the canvas can also influence the amount your stroke is changed. Note: turning off snapping will not affect rectangular shapes, their angles will still snap to 45 degrees. To avoid this problem, you can turn off snapping in the Predictive Stroke sub-toolbar. However sometimes this can get in your way - an example is if you are trying to draw a straight line with a slight angle, Predictive Stroke will flatten that line. Predictive stroke tries to understand your objective when drawing shapes such as lines, triangles, rectangles, and ellipses. The higher the number the better the shape recognition. If you want to draw a straight line, sharp corners, a circle or ellipse freehand, set Level to 4 or 5. A higher level also makes it easier for Sketchbook to recognize a circle, ellipse, or straight line when drawing freehand. The higher the number, the smoother the stroke. Use the smoothness Level slider to set just how much you want your stroke to be smoothed. Want to draw a perfect ellipse, circle, triangle, rectangle, or line? With Predictive Stroke activated and Level set to for or 5, draw any one of these on the screen and see the tool fix them. There are times when you might not want or need smooth lines. Keep in mind, just because you’re drawing with your finger, doesn’t mean you have to use. The second was made with Predictive Stroke. Notice in this first image, how jagged the lines are. If you’re a beginner, you might draw slowly, creating tentative strokes, so this can come in handy. If you don’t have a stylus, this provides a bit more control. Predictive Stroke helps to improve your stroke quality when drawing with your finger or drawing slowly. To return to freestyle stroke mode, exit Steady Stroke or the Draw Style tools. When drawing short curves, if you have difficulties, lessen the smoothness setting. Increasing the offset affects your stylus response time. To draw small curves with tight turn radii, decrease the offset.To draw large smooth curves, increase the offset.The larger the offset, the longer the offset between your cursor and the stroke. Steady Stroke has an option for settings the offset between your cursor and the stroke. Use Steady Stroke to draw uniform smoother strokes.

Not every version of Sketchbook has these options. Sketchbook has two stroke tools to help create smooth and uniform strokes: Steady Stroke and Predictive Stroke.

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