Using Gallery folders


NOTE: the Gallery is only available on Sketchbook for mobile devices.

Gallery folders are called Albums.

All your Albums can be seen in small thumbnail view. Switch to small thumbnail view by:

  • tapping the  icon
  • or tapping the Album name in the upper left corner
  • or by pinch-zooming out

Along the top of the screen you will see your Albums listed. When you select an Album, the sketches in that Album appear below, in the main part of the screen.


Album menu

Tap  to open the Album menu.


This is where you can:

Renaming an Album

To rename an Album, tap the name under the album thumbnail, and enter the new name.


Organize sketches into Albums

Tap Select to enter selection mode. The bar across the bottom of the Gallery view will turn blue.

 

Tap all the thumbnails you want to select, and then tap Move To in the blue bar. The thumbnails will collapse into a single thumbnail - you can drag this to any other album in the top section.

You can also long-press any single sketch until it enters the selected state, then drag it to another album.

To exit the Select state, tap Select again. The blue bar will disappear, indicating you have exited the mode.

Deleting an Album

In older versions of Sketchbook, deleting an Album was permanent and cannot be undone. Starting in Sketchbook v6, deleting an Album puts it in the Trash. You may see a message that your Trash folder settings will be automatically updated to enable the Album to go into the Trash, for example if the number of sketches in the Album exceeds the current Trash folder setting.

  1. To delete an Album, Tap  to open the Album menu.
  2. Tap  Delete Album to delete the selected folder. A warning appears to ensure you aren't deleting something accidentally.
    • On AndroidOS, you can also start the deletion process by long-pressing the folder
  3. Tap Yes to delete the folder.

Deleting sketches within an Album

  1. To delete one or more sketches, tap Select, then the sketch or sketches from the Gallery or from within an Album.
  2. Tap  and select  Delete. The sketch appears in the Trash folder.

The Trash folder

When you delete a sketch or Album, this is where is goes. However, if you ever mistakenly delete something, you can get it back by restoring it from the Trash.

When you open the Trash folder, thumbnails of its contents appear. At this point, you can do any of the following:

  • To restore a sketch to the Gallery, tap it to select it, then tap  and Restore selected sketch
  • To delete a sketch permanently, tap it to select it, then tap  and Delete selected sketch to permanently delete it the app.
  • To permanently delete the entire contents of the Trash folder, tap  and then  Empty Trash
  • Tap  in the lower right corner to set how many files are kept in Trash at any one time. When the number of sketches sent to the Trash exceeds this setting, the sketches that have been in the Trash the longest will be permanently deleted.