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Timeline buttons: These buttons consist of various functions like play, stop, start, end, loop
                      on/off and onion skin. Onion skin is used for controlling frames, layers and movies.


                 TOOLS PANEL

                 Adobe  Animate  has many drawing tools  in the Tools Panel. These tools  are used  to  create
                 illustrations, buttons and user interfaces. The following are the different types of tools:

                   Selection Tool: It is used to select objects and
                   also move them.                                          Selection Tool
                                                                                                    Sub-Selection Tool
                   Sub-Selection Tool: It is used to select partial
                   objects.                                                    Lasso Tool

                   Lasso Tool: It is used to select irregular-shaped                               Fluid Brush Tool
                   pieces of an object.                                 Classic Brush Tool

                   Fluid Brush Tool: It works like  the  brush tool,                               Eraser Tool
                   except  that  it  doesn’t  smoothen  the  lines like     Rectangle Tool
                   the Classic Brush tool.
                                                                                                   Line Tool
                   Classic Brush  Tool: It draws and  paints

                   brush-like strokes.  It lets you  create  special             Pen Tool
                   effects.                                                                         Text Tool
                                                                         Paint Bucket Tool
                    Eraser Tool: It erases the area over which we
                   click and drag the Eraser tool.                                                 Eye Dropper Tool
                                                                          Asset Wrap Tool
                   Rectangle  Tool: It helps draw rectangles  and
                   squares.                                                                        Hand Tool

                    Line Tool: It is used to draw straight lines.              Zoom Tool

                   Pen Tool: It allows you to draw lines and shapes
                   in free form.

                   Text Tool: It allows us to add text to our drawings.

                   Paint Bucket Tool: It allows us to fill an enclosed area with colours.

                   Eye Dropper Tool: It works with the Paint Bucket tool. It allows us to click on anything to select
                   its colour. Once the colour is selected, the Paint Bucket tool appears and lets us fill a different
                   object with the picked colour.

                    Asset Wrap Tool: It lets us manipulate characters during the animation process.

                   Hand Tool: It allows us to drag the stage around and see the parts that are not visible.

                   Zoom Tool: It allows us to zoom in and out of our scenes.






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