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Introduction

• Features
• About
• License
• Download
• Building Synfig:
  • Build instructions
  • Gentoo Ebuilds
  • Mingw_installation
  • Windows build instructions
  • Subversion
• Gallery
• Contact

Synfig Studio Interface

• Quick Overview
• Short Introduction

• The Main Canvas
  • Canvas Properties
  • Canvas Menu Caret
• The Toolbox
  • Normal Tool
  • Smooth Move Tool
  • Scale Tool
  • Rotate Tool
  • Mirror Tool
  • Spline Tool (see also Creating Shapes)
  • Circle Tool
  • Rectangle Tool
  • Gradient Tool
  • Polygon Tool
  • Draw Tool
  • Sketch Tool
  • Fill Tool
  • Eyedrop Tool
  • Zoom Tool
  • Star Tool
  • Text Tool
  • Width tool
• Dockable Dialogs - These are the main ancillary windows you'll use in Synfig to manage your project data outside of the canvas window.
  • Tool Options Panel
  • History Panel
  • Canvas Browser Panel
  • Keyframes Panel
  • Layers Panel
  • Parameters Panel
  • Meta Data Panel
  • Library Panel
  • Info Panel
  • Navigator Panel
  • Time Track Panel
  • Graphs Panel
  • Sets Panel
  • Palette Editor Panel
• Dialogs
  • Color Editor Dialog
  • Gradient Editor Dialog
  • Palette Browser
  • Render Dialog
  • Preview window (Flipbook)

Important Concepts

• Introduction to layers and layer types.
• Handles
• The blend method attribute and layer composition.
• Types of value nodes and their conversions.
• Grouping of layers.
• ListImporter
• Sub-Canvases
• Depth sorting of layers

Working with Synfig

• Preparation

• Creating artwork
  • Creating Shapes
  • Adding Layers
  • Importing image sequences.

• Animation
  • Animation Basics
  • Rescale Animations

• Render
  • Previewing
  • Rendering

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