Editing Storyboard Pro Panel Editing Cookbook (section)

=== Stamp tool ===

The '''Stamp Tool''' is useful for (a) quickly creating collections of similar objects, e.g. crowds, forests, rain, and (b) reusing cycles.

==== Crowds and chaotic patterns ====

* Create the source artwork in either a single layer or multiple layers. Multiple layers will add more variation to the backdrop.
* Select the '''Clone Tool'''.
* '''Tool Properties''' panel > '''Presets''' > '''New Brush''' button (icon of a pencil with a plus sign next to it.)
* A new stamp is added to the '''Presets'''.
* Now with the '''Stamp Tool''' over the '''Stage/Camera View''', every click will add a drawing from the stamp cycle. Each layer from the source artwork is the next image in the stamp cycle. 
** Note that the size of the stamps can be changed in the '''Tool Properties''' panel by changing the size of the brush. So, for example, you can make a forest containing trees of varying sizes.

==== Cycles ====

* Within a single '''Panel''' create a Layer for each drawing representing a step in the cycle. 
* Select all the Layers in the cycle, and create a new '''Stamp Preset''' as described above.
* Create a new Panel for each step in the cycle using the <kbd>P</kbd> keyboard shortcut.
* Click in the '''Stage/Camera View''' window with the '''Stamp Tool''' to place each drawing in the cycle. 
** Turn on '''Onion Skin''' to register the drawings relative to each other in the Panels.