Select, move & transform

The Select tool lets you pick up part of your drawing (or all of it) and move, resize, stretch, rotate, flip, copy, or delete it.

Selecting

1. Tap the Select tool and choose a mode:
   • Rectangle: drag a box around the area.
   • Lasso: draw a freehand loop around the area.
2. Drag on the canvas to make your selection. DoodLoop lifts that part of the art so you can work with it. The selection box hugs the ink you drew, not the empty paper around it.

To grab everything on the current layer at once, tap Select everything on this layer in the tool panel. It floats the whole drawing so you can move, resize, rotate, or flip it in one go.

Moving and transforming

Once something is selected:

• Drag inside the selection to move it.
• Square corner handles: drag to resize it, keeping its proportions.
• Round edge handles: drag to squash and stretch it along one axis, independently, perfect for the classic squash-and-stretch of animation.
• The knob above the selection: drag to rotate it.
• Distort: tap the perspective button on the selection bar, and the corner handles switch to corner-pinning: drag any corner on its own and the artwork stretches into perspective, great for signs, screens, and shadows. Tap the button again for normal resizing.
• Use the on-screen buttons to flip it horizontally or vertically, cut, copy, paste, or delete it.

Two-finger gestures keep zooming and panning the canvas while a selection is up, so you can navigate without dropping it.

When you are happy, tap Done to drop it back into the drawing. Changed your mind? Tap Cancel and everything goes back exactly as it was before you selected it.

Tips

• Selection works on the current layer.
• Copy something once and paste it across frames to reuse a pose or a prop.
• Transforms never degrade the art while you experiment: DoodLoop always resamples from the pixels you originally picked up, no matter how many times you resize or rotate before tapping Done.
• Undo also works while a selection floats: it cancels the whole selection and puts the art back where it started.