HiPaint Manual

Here's a quick manual you may refer to with sample demo to help you get started, whereas, some are self-explanatory, I just picked commonly used settings or features when painting to the best of my knowledge which you may explore in depth if needed. 😁

1. PLUS (+) BUTTON

New Canvas (recommended to start with pixels with 300 PPI)
You may create a folder to organize your artworks
Open an image/picture as canvas (size)
Import an hsd file

2. RENAME FOLDER/PROJECT

Tap on untitled/text to rename

3. MOVE PROJECT TO FOLDER//DUPLICATE/DELETE/SHARE/RESTORE

Long press on project, select move and choose designated folder
Long press on project and click Duplicate
Long press on project and click clear all (Delete)
Long press on project and click Share (hsd file)
Long press on project and click Restore archive

4. SETTINGS

Theme style (dark/light mode or system)
Recycle bin
Advanced Features (subscription or purchased info)
Clean up (cache and playback)
Hardware acceleration
Remove brush ghosting
Languages
Share app with friends
About (version of app)
Immediate Feedback (questions and comments)

5. CHANGE BACKGROUND COLOR (Canvas)

Click "Layer" panel click background and pick a color to apply

6. BRUSH AND OPACITY SLIDER

Slide up and down to adjust brush size
Slide up and down to adjust brush opacity (opaque to transparent)
Change slider location from "Sketch settings" (Interface UI)

7. BRUSH SETTINGS

Click on brush to open settings
General (preview, flow, spacing, size, smoothness, intelligent detection, head and tail taper)
Shape (brush source/brush tip image, softness, roundness, angle, count, scatter, blending mode)
Texture (you may add your own texture images to add effect to your brush)
Dual brush (adding a second brush to blend with your main brush)
Pencil (adding some taper to your brush and adjusting flow)
Dynamics (for stroke jitter, color jitter and texture settings)
RESET brush changes with the small circle arrow from "brush preview"

8. CREATE NEW BRUSH/GROUP BRUSH

Click on brush panel
Click + to create group brush
Click burger menu (3 dots) rename group brush
Click burger menu (3 dots) click new brush
Click burger menu (3 dots) share brush/group brush (this will be in hbr format)
You may copy from default brushes and paste to your group brush, delete brush/brush group

9. ERASER TOOL

Click on eraser tool
Choose from any of the default brushes to be used as eraser
You may edit the brush settings like in #7

10. ADD NEW LAYERS

Click on Layer panel
Click + to add new layer
Click layer and rename (for your comfort when dealing with number of layers)
Slide to adjust layer opacity
Click Blending mode from list of selection (Multiply, Dissolve, Darken, Add, etc)

11. GROUP LAYERS & MOVE/ROTATE

Swipe Layer to the right to select (multiple layer selection)
Click folder + icon to group
Click group folder and rename (for your comfort when dealing with number of layers)
Click Wrench icon and select Transform tool to move/rotate
Click group folder to ungroup
Click a specific layer, click Transform tool to move/rotate

12. MAKE A LAYER AS REFERENCE

Highlight/select layer to be used as reference
Click layer and click Reference
Drag the white handlebar to move your reference (floating reference)
Click X to close reference

13. ALPHA LOCK vs CLIPPING MASK

Click + to add layer and click "Clipping Mask" (non-destructive layer)
Click layer and click Lock Transparent Pixels/Alpha lock (destructive)
Both methods have the same purpose except one is directly applied to the layer (destructive) as compared to a separate layer (non-destructive)

14. REFERENCE LAYER + FILL

Click Layer and tap as Reference Layer
Click Fill tool and set Extended Edge with one shaded square (tap square)
Go to your Color layer and apply fill (drag and drop or manual fill)
If you decide not to tap as Reference Layer then tap the "tolerance" in fill (right side) to change to multi-layer with the extended edge set to one shaded square

15. MERGE LAYERS (Non Destructive)

Click any Layer (either from top or bottom)
Click Merge icon
Multi select Layers, click the 1st Merge icon (it will hide original layers)
Multi select Layers, click the 2nd Merge icon (original layers will remain unhidden)
Merge Down & Merge All (Destructive merge)

16. LAYER COLOR CHANGE

Click your color Layer (make it a habit to separate line art and color layers when starting)
Select a new color from Color Panel
Go to color layer and click "Layer color change" to apply new color