Creating with Flow

Tool Editor

Flow’s Tool Editor is the place where you customize size, type, and color. When you’re drawing, the Tool Editor displays as a compact size with controls to quickly adjust the size, opacity and hue of the current tool. When expanded – either by tapping the tool icon at the top, or the selected tool in the tool dock – it shows more controls.

By default, the Tool Editor is placed on the left side of the screen; however, you can switch it to the right side by pushing the Tool Dock toward the edge of the display.

Compact Tool Editor

Positioning

You can move the compact tool editor by dragging it.

Size

Swipe up or down on the dots to adjust the size the tool draws with. The size is the setting for the particular type of tool. Different types of tool will apply at different sizes on the page when you draw with them.

Hue

Swipe up or down on the current color to spin through the spectrum of color hues.

Expanded Tool Editor

Size

Type

Swipe up or down on the tip of the tool to change the type. Flow has a number of tool types to choose from: graphite pencil, pen, round marker, chiseled marker, airbrush, and fountain pen.

Hue

Swipe up or down on the vertical strip of color to spin through the spectrum of color hues.

Saturation

Slide the strip of color left and right to adjust saturation.

If you slide the saturation all the way down to the end of the tool, you can change the mode to shades of gray. Slide back left or tap back on the color area to return it to color.

Brightness

You can change the brightness by swiping up or down on the end cap of your selected tool. Change the brightness to zero to swap to shades of grey.

Opacity

Swipe up or down on the vertical opacity slider to adjust the opacity of the selected tool.

Eyedropper

Press and hold the Eyedropper button to activate it. The ring shows your current color on the right side, and the new color on the left side for comparison.

Drag the eyedropper over top of anywhere on your document or pens and let go to pick the new color.

While the Eyedropper is active, a row of shade and tint variants of your current color is shown so you can quickly select them without having to open the pen editor.