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                    Toolbar: The toolbar contains many shortcut buttons, which help us to perform the various
                    tasks related to projects like New Project, Open Project, Save Project, Save Project As and closing
                    the current project.


                    Toolbox: It contains various tools which help us to draw, paint, fill, color, and import and export
                    images.


                    Workspace: It is the main working area where we create, design and create animations. It is also
                    called Paint area.

                     Paint Area Actions Toolbar: This toolbar has commands perform various actions while drawing
                    on the workspace such as, Undo, Redo, Copy, Paste, Delete, etc.

                    Modules Tab: The modules  tab contains  the  tabs required  to create animations, view  the
                    animation and get updates related to the software. The Modules tab contains the three tabs:

                       Animation Module: This module contains the area where you can draw each frame of your
                       animation project. It contains various tools and onion skin support to embed in the project.

                       Player Module: This module helps us to preview the animation that we have created while
                       designing.

                       News Module: This module displays all the latest news about the project. It also informs you
                       when a new version of Tupi2D has been released.
                    Left Side  Bar: This component  has three expandable  panels  that are related to Animation

                    module.

                        Color Palette       : This panel contains the options to manage colours. Using this palette,
                       you can set the colour of the brush, fill colour in the objects and set colours of the pen, pencil
                       or for all the drawing tools including the background of the workspace.

                        Pen Properties       : This panel contains all the settings related to the pen tool. It helps to
                       change the size and texture of the stroke. You can also  define the path of the pen.

                        Library      : This panel contains the library of all the visual/audio objects of your animation
                       projects. It also helps us to import external items like images (JPG, PNG, GIF and SVG files)
                       directly to the workspace.

                    Right  Side Bar: This component contains two expandable panels related to the animation
                    process which focusses on frames and scenes. The name of these panels are Scenes Manager
                    and Exposure Sheet.

                     Exposure Sheet: It is used to manage layers and frames. It helps in adding, editing and removing
                    the frames and layers from all your scenes in the animation project.

                    Expanded Panel: Whenever we create a new project, then by default exposure sheet panel
                    is expanded. This option contains buttons to add, remove layers, frames, and scenes in the
                    project.





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