How it works.

Install PenLayer, find it, and draw your first stroke.

• Install PenLayer on your Mac
• Find PenLayer after you open it
• Draw your first stroke
• How clicks work while you draw

Every tool, colour, weight and line style.

• The drawing tools and their keys
• Use the pen and highlighter
• Draw straight and freehand arrows
• Draw rectangles, ellipses and lines
• Number steps on screen
• Stamp icons on screen
• Change colour, stroke weight and line style
• Undo, erase and clear

Where the toolbar sits, how it behaves, and every setting.

• Set up the toolbar
• Choose what happens when drawing stops
• Stop drawing automatically
• Keyboard shortcuts and how to change them

Pressure, pen buttons, and mapping keystrokes.

• Pressure on a graphics tablet
• What the pen buttons do
• Map a pen button to a PenLayer action

The free trial, activating, moving to a new Mac, and managing your plan.

• How the free trial works
• Buy and activate a licence
• Move your licence to a new Mac
• Manage, cancel or get a refund
• Use PenLayer offline

How PenLayer stays up to date, and how to turn that off.

• Automatic updates

When something doesn't look right.

• Drawings don't show in a recording or screen share
• Drawing on a second monitor
• A shortcut does nothing
• Fix licence activation problems
• Get out of draw mode