

Import audio - Choose a WAV or MP3 file to import to your project.Recent projects - Open a project from a list of the latest projects you've opened.Revert to Saved - Discard all changes made to the project since you last saved.Save the current project to a different filename. New - Create a new untitled project with the resolution and framerate you specify.In the File menu you can export an MP4 video, a PNG image sequence, or an animated GIF.

Press the Play button in the Tools panel (or the Enter key) to play back a preview of your animation. Toggle it on and off with the Onion skin button in the Tools panel (or the O key), and adjust the range of drawings visible in the Tool Options panel. The Onion Skin feature lets you see previous and following drawings overlayed on the current frame. If you're using a tablet with a touch screen, you can use two fingers to pan/zoom. Demo video hereįor drawing you have available a Brush tool (B), an Eraser tool (E), a Fill tool (F), and a Lasso selection tool (L), as well as a Zoom tool (Z) to zoom in by clicking on the canvas (or out when holding the Option key), and a Pan tool (H) to move the canvas around the window (the Pan tool can also be activated temporarily by holding down the Spacebar). You can press and hold on a drawing in the timeline to drag/drop it earlier or later, or to add a new drawing. You can also add drawings to the timeline manually by clicking "Add drawing" in the tool panel, or with the following keyboard shortcuts: By default, going forward from the end of the timeline will automatically add a new drawing and extend the timeline to fit it. Click on any one to go to that drawing or, drag along the top bar of the timeline to scrub through the drawings or, use the arrow keys to step back and forth or, drag up/down from the button in the Tools panel for quick flipping. To extend the duration a drawing is seen when played back, drag the "Drawing duration" slider or drag the edge between drawings on the timeline or press F5 or the + key to increase duration and Shift F5 or the - key to decrease.Įach drawing is represented by a gray rectangle on the timeline. To the left are sliders to control the opacity of each layer, and buttons to change the layer order or delete a layer.

You will see a Background layer (this cannot be deleted) and a default "Layer 1" with one drawing, and above that the playhead indicating the current frame. In a new project, the timeline will be only one frame long to begin with. Create a new project from the File menu or by pressing the "New project" button, and choose your desired resolution and framerate.
