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The main features.

A storyboard app that does a few things very well.

Drawing

Paint behind your lines

Every layer holds a line sheet and a paint sheet. One key flips between them, so you can lay in tone under your lines without touching them.

  1. Draw the lines. The Brush on the line sheet, with pressure on every stroke.
  2. Press Q to flip to the paint sheet. The lines stay on top.
  3. Paint tone with the Paint Brush. Paint over the lines as much as you like; it goes behind them and never touches a line.
  4. Or let the bucket do it. The paint is cleared to show the faster way.
  5. One tap of the paint bucket fills the whole figure, tucked under the lines. It closes small gaps in the line work, so the fill doesn't leak.
  6. Touch up the last specks with the Paint Brush.
Tools

Brushes made for boarding

  • Brush, Paint Brush and Felt Pen, tuned for pen displays
  • Paint Brush edge from soft to hard
  • Lasso to move, scale, rotate and flip line and paint together
Screen capture: brushes and the lasso
Layers

Onion skin

See the panels either side of the one you're drawing, in fixed colours: red before, green after.

  1. A four-panel board, onion skin off.
  2. Turn onion skin on with the button or O. The panels before show in red, the panels after in green, fading with distance.
  3. Step through the panels and the ghosts follow, so you can check the action and the spacing.
  4. Choose how many to show. Here After is set to 0, so only the panels before appear.

Also: layers with names, opacity and visibility, and reference images dropped in from Finder.

The board

Hundreds of panels, no waiting

  • New and duplicate panel in one key
  • Thumbnails plus a whole-board bar laid out by time
  • Dialogue typed or hand-written on the sheet; studio numbering (12A)
Screen capture: the panel navigator
Timing

Timing, sound and playback

  • Panel durations at 24, 25 or 30 fps
  • One audio track, saved inside the board
  • Playback locked to the sound
Screen capture: playback with audio
Out to editorial

Export what the edit needs

  • Movie with audio
  • PNG, JPG or TIFF per panel
  • Layered PSD, and PSD import
Screen capture: export
Your setup

Your keys, your files, no lost work

  • Photoshop keys by default, all remappable
  • One .dbp file per board: plain PNGs in a zip
  • Autosave and crash recovery
Screen capture: the Keys screen

What it leaves out, on purpose

No AINothing draws for you.
No accountsNo sign-in, no cloud, no tracking.
No feature pileA board, done well.
No subscriptionFree, and it stays free.

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