Amadine has a feature called “Sheets”, which is the same function as Adobe Illustrator’s artboards.

In this article, I would like to show how to use the sheet.

Overview of the Sheets Tool

You can regard a sheet as a range of output.

Objects that are out of the sheet are not in the output image.

The star figure sticks out the square sheet.
Let's output this in PNG format.
You can see that the protruding part is not output.

A single document in Amadine can have multiple sheets.

This means that a single document can have multiple output ranges.

Create color variations

The sheet tool is useful for creating different color variations of the same object in a single document.

Let's copy a sheet with rose artwork and change the color variations.
Tap the Sheets Tool icon.
Of the sheet properties displayed at the bottom of the screen, tap the "Move artwork with sheet" option on the far right to turn it on.
While touching your two fingers anywhere on the screen, drag the sheet.
As you can see in the animation, the sheet is copied with the artwork.
By changing the color of the roses on the copied sheet, you can complete the artwork with different color variations.
Let's output this artwork for each sheet.
Tap the Menu icon.
Tap Share.
Tap Export.
Select Sheets for the Scope option and tap the Sheets option.
Tap Sheet 2 and then tap Back.
Tap Share.
The image for each sheet is output.

Featured images will be cropped into squares when shared on Facebook and Twitter.

When the aspect ratio is 16x9, a 9x9 square in the center of the image would be displayed on the SNS.

For this reason, when using it for a rectangular Featured image, you should be careful that the cropped image is fine when shared on social media.

The sheet function is useful for checking the location of this crop.

The Featured image for this posting is 1280 in Width and 720 in Height.
Create Sheet 2 with a Width of 680 and a Height of 680 and place it in the center of Sheet 1, the output range.

When you output Sheet 1 in PNG format, the border of Sheet 2 disappears on the output image.

The sheet function is useful as a guide to see what is displayed when shared on Facebook and Twitter.

When I started using the vector graphics application, I did not know when to use this sheet function. But once I have learned how to use it, it is useful.