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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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