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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

                      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 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.

                       Scenes Manager          : This panel allows you to handle various scenes of your project. We
                      can perform the operations like create, remove and rename scenes under this option.

                       Exposure Sheet         : This panel contains the set of frames for each scene of your project.

                      From this panel you can handle the frames and layers that compose your scenes.

                    Exposure Sheet: This component contains the Timeline panel. It is a standard tool 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.

                     CREATING A NEW TUPI 2D PROJECT

                 To open a new Tupi 2D project, follow these steps:
                 Step 1  Click on the File menu.

                 Step 2  Click on the New Project option.
                 Step 3  The Create New Project dialog box opens in
                          which you need to fill the required information

                          like project  name,  size,  author,  background
                          colours, etc.
                 Step 4  Click on the OK button. A new project opens.

                 Step 5  Click on Pencil Tool from the Toolbox.
                 Step 6  Go to the workspace area and draw the object
                          that you want to draw by dragging the mouse.
                                                                                        Creating a New Project

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