Panels

A picture box splits into panels, the manga way: up to four panels that share one slanted cut, each with its own fig or shot, and words printed over the cuts.

Split a box

Pick a picture box on the design. Details › Picture › Split into panels has three rows:

• Split into panels: 1, 2, 3 or 4. The line under it reads Cuts the box into comic-style panels. Fewer panels hide the spare ones, and their pictures stay.
• Angle: Straight, Slight, Steep or Other way. Every cut in the box shares the one slant. A first split starts on Slight, and Other way on Straight slants it the other way.
• Panel: Picks a panel. A tap on the design picks it too.

Each panel takes its own picture. With a panel picked, the pictures strip, Turn the fig, Zoom the fig and Fill work on that panel alone. The cuts run across the box’s short side, and the panels fit any box shape, Circle, Star and Heart too. A caption or a title over a cut prints over it.

Layout moves, sizes, turns, hides, copies and removes the box whole, and a copy gets its own panels. Remove on Details empties a panel with a picture, and takes the box once the panel is empty. Every kit’s Boxes and frames group ends with a Panels card: a box already split in three, on Line.

The gap between panels

The gap takes the box’s Frame. Line draws a line round each panel. Polaroid and the photo frames fill the gap with a paper band, Film strip with its strip, Scalloped and Lace with their edge, and Neon with a glow. None lets the design show through the gap. A first split with no frame starts on Line, so the cut shows on a plain sky; None is one tap away.

In the Camera

On the scene Camera’s Story page, in Photo, Loop and Video, a Picture piece has the same three rows and a Shots row: Camera view, or a saved clip shot of the scene. A Camera view panel draws the scene’s miniature, a little darker than the scene. See Pieces on a shot .

A clip shot has no Split into panels row.

Older versions of Ünflat

An older Ünflat opens the design and draws the panels as plain overlapping boxes.