Tools & shortcuts

Tools live in the top toolbar. Click one, or press its shortcut key, then draw on the canvas. The select tool is your home base — press V (or Escape) to return to it any time.

Tools

Each tool and what it does. Shortcut keys are shown on the right.

• Select V

  Select, move, resize, and rotate objects. Double-click a group to edit inside it.

• Move H

  Pan the canvas. Hold Space with any tool active to pan temporarily.

• Anchor A

  Reposition an object's anchor point — the pivot for rotation and scaling.

• 3D Gizmo G

  Move, scale, and rotate with an on-canvas widget — Position and Scale along the X/Y axes, Rotation in 3D: the outer ring spins Z, the X/Y rings and the inner trackball tilt the object in space (turn Perspective on to see the depth).

• Frame

  Draw a fixed-size container with a background and rounded corners that clips the layers placed inside it.

• Rectangle R

  Draw rectangles with adjustable, per-corner radius.

• Ellipse C

  Draw circles and ellipses, with an optional inner radius for donut shapes.

• Shape

  Insert ready-made shapes — stars, polygons, arrows, and symbols — from the Shape panel.

• Line L

  Draw straight lines with full stroke control and optional arrowheads.

• Pen B

  Click to drop anchor points and drag for bezier handles, building a path one point at a time. Shift keeps a corner sharp or snaps a handle to 15°; double-click or Enter finishes.

• Path P

  Draw a freeform path in one continuous stroke. Once it exists, double-click it to drop into the same anchor-by-anchor editing as the Pen.

• Text T

  Add and edit text with full typography control — font, size, weight, alignment, spacing.

• Image I

  Place an image from your assets onto the canvas.

• Video

  Place a video clip with playback, trim, volume, and timeline-sync controls.

• Audio

  Add an audio track with trim, volume, loop, and timeline-sync controls.

Design and Animation

The switcher in the top-left header puts the editor in one of two modes. Every drawing tool above stays exactly the same in both — what changes is what an edit means and what the left panel shows.

Design

The default. Draw, arrange, and style: the canvas shows your design exactly as designed, and the left panel lists the scene's objects.

Animation

The Objects panel becomes a timeline, a key badge appears beside every animatable property in the inspector, and the canvas shows the scene at the playhead — so an edit lands as a keyframe at that moment.

Tip Tab switches modes whenever you're not typing. The drawing tools behave identically in both, so you can nudge a shape into place mid-animation without leaving Animation.

Keyboard shortcuts

The most common editing actions. Use Ctrl on Windows/Linux and ⌘ on macOS.

Tip Shortcuts keep working even when your keyboard is in Korean input mode — SSHOW maps Hangul keys back automatically. And hold Space to pan with any tool active.

Sub-tools & number keys

When you select an object, a contextual sub-tool strip appears with the actions that apply to it — alignment, flips, and more. Every visible button is mapped to a number key: press 1–9 for the 1st through 9th button, and 0 for the 10th, counted left to right. For a single selected object the map is:

Tip Want an object dead-center on the canvas? Press 2 then 5 — horizontal center, then vertical middle. The number keys make repetitive alignment almost muscle-memory.

Alignment reference depends on how many objects are selected: a single object aligns to the canvas, while two or more align to the selection's combined bounds. Selecting multiple objects also adds Distribute buttons (so the digits shift accordingly), and text objects expose extra formatting buttons — the strip is always contextual.

What appears when

The strip is built from small groups, and each one shows up only when it applies:

Align & flip — any selection

Six alignment buttons plus horizontal and vertical flip. Present whenever something is selected.

Distribute — two or more objects

Evens out the horizontal or vertical spacing across the selection. It appears only for a multiple selection, which also shifts the number keys along.

Text — a text object

Paragraph alignment (left, center, right, justify), vertical alignment, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and auto-size.

Distort & split

Distort turns on the free four-corner perspective warp (any visual object); Split text breaks a text object into per-character or per-line pieces you can style and animate separately.

Gizmo — Position · Scale · Rotation

Shown while the 3D Gizmo tool is active: pick which part of the transform the widget edits. Position and Scale work along the X/Y axes; Rotation adds the X/Y rings and the trackball for 3D tilts.

Edit — an image or a path

Enters that object's own editing mode, exactly like double-clicking it, and the button becomes Exit while you're inside.

Path editing — inside a path

Add or delete anchors, join and split, and switch a point between corner and smooth. The design guide walks through the whole gesture set.

Image editing — inside an image

Lasso, magic wand, rectangle and ellipse selection, invert selection, crop, then brush, eraser, fill, stamp, invert colours, and adjustments.

Note Path and image editing each get a full walkthrough in the design guide — this page is the map of where those buttons live.

Search and replace

The magnifier in the top-right rail (or Ctrl / ⌘ + F) searches the whole project at once — not just the scene you're looking at. Results list with a snippet of context; clicking one jumps to that scene and selects the object.

Scope

Search the current scene or every scene in the project.

Where to look

Four toggles decide what counts as a match — text content, layer names, scene names, and speaker notes. Turn off the ones you don't want.

Matching

Aa matches case, ab matches whole words, and .* treats the query as a regular expression.

Replace

Type a replacement and use Replace for the current match or All for every one. A replace-all lands as a single undo step, so one Ctrl / ⌘ + Z puts everything back.

Tip Search is the fastest way to find a stray placeholder before you present — search for a bracket or a lorem word across all scenes.

Notes

Keep reminders with your project. The Notes button in the top-right opens a panel with project-wide notes plus a separate note for each scene — handy for briefs, to-dos, and handoff details that should travel with the file.