I've been using PD for almost two years now and have read many, many posts on this forum. But until today, I had never heard of Paint Designer! When trying to animate the drawing of a map route, I tried using Screen Recorder. It did the job, but was awkward. When I found Paint Designer, I realized it would have been a much easier-to-use solution (for me, anyway).

For those, like me, who didn't realize Paint Designer is built into PD, it's (imho) buried in the PIP Objects Room. You go there, click on Paint Animations, then click on the "pencil" at the top, which opens the Paint Designer window. I searched both PD University and PD Toots on YouTube, but found only this passing reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUsQvOpbso.

You may want to give this a glance, if you haven't been aware of its existence... Regards,
Dan
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