Tools Toolbar

The Tools toolbar contains the main tools you need to work in Storyboard Pro. In the default workspace, this toolbar located on the left edge of the application window.

By default, the Tools toolbar hides some of its tools inside pop-up menus. For example, to select the Cutter tool, you must double-click or long-click the Select tool button, and select Cutter in the pop-up menu.

However, it is possible to make the Tools toolbar display each tool as a separate button by enabling the Flat Tools Toolbar preference. This makes the selection of tools quicker.

How to make every tool in the Tools toolbar display in buttons rather than pop-up menus

Do one of the following to open the Preferences dialog:

Windows:

In the top menu, select Edit > Preferences.

Press Ctrl + U.

macOS:

In the top menu, select Storyboard Pro 22 > Preferences.

Press ⌘ + U.

Select the Global UI tab.
In the UI Style section, check the Flat Tool Toolbar option.

Click OK.
Close and relaunch Storyboard Pro.

NOTE In Flat Tools Toolbar mode, some tools are hidden from the Tools toolbar by default. To customize which tools are displayed in the Tools toolbar, and the order in which they are displayed, right-click on the Tools toolbar and select Customize.

Tool Name	Icon	Description
Select		Allows you to select and reposition, scale, rotate and skew brush strokes, pencil lines, shapes and other parts of your artwork.
Cutter		Allows you to cut a part of your artwork, then reposition, scale, rotate and skew it.
Select by Colour		Allows you to quickly select all zones painted with the colour you click on in a single drawing layer.
Contour Editor		Allows you to edit the vector contours of brush strokes, pencil lines and shapes in your artwork. You can add, remove, tweak and move vector points, move the Bezier handles of the vector points as well as deform vector outlines.
Centerline Editor		Allows you to tweak and deform a brush stroke by manipulating the points at the centre of its line rather than its contour.
Perspective		Allows you to deform artwork by applying a perspective effect on it.
Edit Gradient/Texture		Allows you to adjust the position, angle and size of gradients and textures in a colour zone.
Brush		A pressure-sensitive tool for creating a contour shape with a thick and thin line effect, as if created with a paint brush.
Stencil Brush		Allows you to paint over existing artwork within the boundaries of that artwork or the boundaries set by selecting the artwork of different layers.
Overlay Brush Mode		In Overlay Brush Mode, the existing artwork is used as a mask to generate new brush strokes which are added on top, leaving the existing artwork untouched.
Repaint Brush Mode		In Repaint Brush Mode, the existing artwork is replaced and repainted, ignoring empty zones.
Pencil		A pressure-sensitive tool for drawing outlines. Pencil lines are made of central vector lines, making them easier to tweak and edit than brush strokes.
Text		Allows you to add text and to format it.
Eraser		A pressure-sensitive tool for erasing parts of a drawing.
Paint		Allows you to fill colour zones with a colour or texture.
Paint Unpainted		Allows you to quickly fill empty zones in your artwork with a colour or texture, leaving filled zones unchanged.
Unpaint		Allows you to empty filled colour zones of their colour and texture.
Close Gap		Allows you to close open shapes so that they can be filled with the Paint tool. By drawing a stroke near a small gap in a shape, this tool will create a small invisible stroke connecting the two closest points around the gap.
Line		Draws a straight line segment going from one point to the other.
Rectangle		Draws a rectangle.
Ellipse		Draws an ellipse.
Polyline		Allows you to draw shapes, segmented lines or complex curved lines by clicking to create each point in the sequence of line segments.
Dropper		Allows you to select a colour by clicking on a colour in your artwork.
Hand		Allows you to pan the Stage and Camera views.
Zoom		Allows you zoom in and out of the Stage and Camera views.
Rotate View		Lets you rotate the Stage and Camera views just like with a real animation disc.
Shift and Trace		Allows you to temporarily move drawings so you can trace over them in other drawings using Onion Skin.
3D Navigation		Lets you navigate through a scene in 3D using the following: Left mouse button for rotation. Middle mouse button for panning. Right mouse button for zooming in and out.
3D Flying Navigation		Lets you navigate through a scene in 3D using the following: Use the mouse for rotation. Use the mouse wheel to move forwards or backwards. Use the arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn to move in all six directions.
Layer Transform		Allows you to select drawing layers and position, rotate, scale and skew them.
Camera		Allows you to position and rotate the camera, as well as to animate camera movements.
Reframe		Allows you to offset the position of the content of the panels for the entire scene so that it fits in the camera frame you define.
Maintain Size		Keeps the visual scale in the Camera view as you move elements in the Z-axis in the Top or Side views.
Create Layer on Surface		Creates a new layers on top of the surface over which you are hovering with the mouse cursor.