Upshot documentation

Pressure drives the brush width; tilt and azimuth shape the nib when Follow pencil angle is on in the Brush panel. Hovering a Pencil Pro (or a 2nd-generation Pencil on M2 iPads) shows a cursor with the exact footprint the ink will get.

Squeeze opens the quick menu by default; double-tap switches to the eraser. Both are assignable in the Pencil panel (quick menu, undo, eraser, previous tool, color panel, brush panel, and more).

The quick menu is customizable: six slots you fill from Undo, Draw tool, Layer, Camera key, New panel, New scene, Redo, Onion skin, Light table, Play / Pause, Next / Previous panel and Fit to frame, and a side (left or right) it opens on. Each slot has a ring of options — Draw tool lists every tool, Layer offers New / Duplicate / Visible, Camera key offers Hold / Push 140% / Preview / Stop, New scene offers New / Rename…

Together with the keyboard shortcuts (when a keyboard is connected) this is how you work with everything collapsed: fold the sidebar and the timeline, and the entire screen is canvas.

Below about 1000 points of width (Split View, Stage Manager, iPad mini) the Studio folds: the tool rail's clipboard becomes one menu, the timeline's left-hand actions gather under a ⋯ menu, the top bar wraps onto two or three rows and the export button becomes a share icon. The Library folds its top-bar actions into a ⋯ menu below about 820 points. Nothing disappears — it moves into a menu.

• Frame and resolution. The frame is what exports; it follows the project resolution set in Project Settings. Changing the resolution re-frames around the center and never rescales your drawing. The canvas itself is unbounded.
• Scenes, panels, layers. A storyboard is scenes of panels; every panel has its own layers. Camera moves belong to the scene and are keyframed on the timeline.
• Versions. Each storyboard keeps versions (Versions… in the card menu). Make one current, duplicate it, or extract it as a standalone board.
• Audio. Several tracks; clips on different tracks play together. Muted tracks are left out of exports.
• Image layers. Photos or files become a layer of their own, transformable like strokes.
• Storyboard Package (.sboardx). An open, documented zip (SVG art + JSON). It round-trips through Upshot bit-perfectly, opens in the web reader, and the Toon Boom bridge scripts read and write it.
• Exports. Movie (.mov) at the project resolution with audio; Avid AAF for Media Composer (always 16:9 1920×1080 — other aspect ratios show adjacent canvas content in the pillar/letterbox area); Contact Sheet PDF; per-panel images.

1. In the Library, tap New storyboard, name it and pick a resolution.
2. Draw the first panel with the Brush; add layers from the Layers panel.
3. Add panels with + in the timeline, or duplicate the current one; drag a clip's right edge to set its duration.
4. Add a scene when the location changes; give scenes camera moves with the Camera tool.
5. Import audio, press Play, and export a Movie or a Storyboard Package to share.