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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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