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COMPONENTS OF THE ANIMATE CC WINDOW


                                                                                Properties
                               Menu Bar         Stage        Pasteboard
                                                                                  Panel




                                                                                                           Tools
                                                                                                           Panel























                            Playhead            Timeline

                                                       Components of Animate CC
                    Stage: The stage is the main work area in
                   Animate that is used while creating a project.
                                                                        Selection Tool               Subselection Tool
                   Videos, graphics, buttons, and all other
                   elements can be organised on the Stage. It      Free Transform Tool               3D Rotation Tool
                   is a rectangular area where we can create               Lasso Tool
                                                                                                    Text Tool
                   drawings or import contents. Default Width               Pen Tool
                   and Height of the Stage is 550   400 pixels.             Line Tool                Rectangle Tool
                    Timeline: The Timeline is a panel at the bottom        Oval Tool                  PolyStar Tool
                   of the stage. It is divided into frames. We can         Pencil Tool              Paint Brush Tool
                   control  the  timing  for the appearance  and
                                                                           Brush Tool
                   motion of various graphics and other elements                                    Paint Bucket Tool
                                                                           Bone Tool
                   of a project. We can use the play head (which                                    Eyedropper Tool
                   is  similar  to  a cursor) to  navigate  through        Eraser Tool

                   the project  to  any desired  frame across the        Camera Tool
                                                                                                    Hand Tool
                   timeline.
                                                                         Stroke color               Zoom Tool
                    Tools Panel: The Tools panel contains a set of
                   tools  to choose from,  such  as drawing tools,         Fill color
                   text tools, selection tools, etc., which are used
                   to create or modify objects as required in the
                   project.


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