Creation overview
What Creation mode is for, and what this section covers.
Creation mode is where you build a board's content. This section covers what you can do with shapes once they are on the board, and the tools that edit their image, video, and audio files. Each kind of shape has its own page under Shapes.
Commands in this section share one layout:
- Operation: how to run it.
- Needs: what it requires, shown only when it requires something.
- Result: what you get.
Working in Creation mode
Creation mode is the default mode:
- The Tools panel creates shapes.
- The Actions panel shows the commands for the selected shapes.
- The Attributes panel shows their attributes.
- The Side panel holds the editor's lists, such as boards, icons, cameras, and named selections.
- The Timeline panel stays available. Selecting a block shows its indicator on the board while the selected shape stays editable.
Animation mode is for animating shapes over time, and Player mode shows the board the way viewers will see it. Modes explains how to switch.
Working with shapes
These pages cover what works on every shape, or on one kind of shape such as vector shapes or cameras.
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Transforming | Moving, resizing, rotating, and flipping shapes, by hand or with exact values, and the pivot they turn around. |
| Grouping | Treating several shapes as one. |
| Arranging | Ordering, aligning, distributing, stacking, and stretching shapes. |
| Duplicating | Making copies of shapes, with or without their arrows. |
| Attributes | Every section of the Attributes panel, and which shapes show it. |
| Masks | Hiding part of a shape with another shape. |
| Shape filters | Changing how a shape is drawn with a chain of SVG filters. |
| Camera filters | Shader effects a camera applies to what it films, and how to add, set, animate, and write them. |
| Camera filter templates | Every ready-made camera filter, with a preview and its settings. |
| Conversions | Turning a shape into another kind of shape. |
| Boolean operations | Combining vector shapes into new paths by union, subtraction, intersection, exclusion, flattening, and splitting. |
Adding and editing media
These pages cover the tools that add icons to the board, and the editors and compressors for image, video, and audio files.
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Icon library | Searching open icon sets and placing icons on the board as SVG images. |
| Image editor | A layered pixel editor that opens over any image on the board. |
| Media optimization | Keeping image and video files light, on import and on demand, and upscaling images with AI. |
| Audio editor | An editor that opens over an audio shape to cut, clean up, record into, and reshape its sound. |