Projects

A project is one chapter or episode. It holds the input images, the profiles it uses, and where its output goes.

Creating a project

Projects are created from the Workspace panel, not the menu bar. Right-click an empty part of the project list and choose New.

The project name is purely a label. It does not affect output filenames, folder names or anything else downstream, so name chapters however helps you find them.

Renaming and deleting

Right-click an existing project in the Workspace panel. The menu offers Rename, Delete and New from this… for the project you clicked, plus New.

Rename opens a small dialog with the current name filled in. Type the new one and press OK.

Delete asks you to confirm, then drops the project from the workspace only — nothing on disk is removed. Your input images and any rendered output stay where they are.

New from this… — duplicating a project

New in 1.4.0. New from this… seeds a fresh project from the one you right-clicked, copying its input files and profile links (canvas profiles + the selected output profile) — but not its rendered output, output directory, or render state. The copy starts clean: its inputs are Pending and it renders into a directory you set for it.

It prompts for the new project's name, then creates the copy.

It exists for the multi-publisher case: two projects over the same pages that differ only in their output profile — one Webtoon Standard, one Tapas, say. See Comic production and Output profiles.

The Input tab

The Input tab is where a chapter's pages live. The Panels list in the centre shows one tile per input image — thumbnail, filename and status badge — displayed top to bottom in strip order, which is the order they will be joined and sliced. The Toolbox on the left adds, sorts and clears them.

→ File statuses

Adding input files

Button	Does
Add all files from directory	Adds every supported image in a chosen folder
Add Files	Adds only the files you pick

Supported formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, .tif, .tiff.

Adding is additive and de-duplicating. Re-adding a folder after exporting a few more pages keeps the pages you already have — with their statuses intact — and appends only the new ones. You do not need to clear the list first, and duplicates are ignored (path matching is case-insensitive on Windows).

Since 1.2.0, Add all files from directory re-opens at the folder you last scanned, so re-scanning or adding a sibling file no longer means navigating the tree from scratch.

Since 1.3.0 you can also drag files, or a whole folder, onto the project — and since 1.4.1 anywhere on the panel counts, not just the tile list. A dropped folder is scanned the same way as Add all files from directory (top level, image files only). Dropping is additive and de-duplicating like the buttons, and counts as one undoable step (Undo is Ctrl+Z, in the Workspace menu — see Menu reference).

Ordering

Order is the most consequential thing on this tab and the least visible. Each page carries an explicit position. Adding pages appends them; sorting rewrites the order in one shot; dragging or the tile arrows rewrite it by hand. The last thing you did wins — sorting does not lock anything.

Order feeds straight into the render: the strip is built in this sequence, so changing it changes where every later slice falls. A reorder therefore marks the affected output out of sync, and that survives a save and reopen — see File statuses.

Sorting

The Sort By control offers Name, Date created and Date modified; Apply rewrites the order to match. Name sorting is numeric-aware, so page2 comes before page10.

Sorting is a one-shot helper, not a rule. Once applied, dragging still overrides it.

Auto-sort rules

The Toolbox also has an Auto-sort rules box — a file-name convention, plus prepended and appended file lists. It is not implemented yet and, since 1.3.0, is greyed out with a "Coming soon" label so it no longer looks usable. Order your pages with Sort By and drag-and-drop for now.

Reordering by hand

Two ways, both live since 1.2.0:

• Drag a tile up or down in the Panels list.
• The ▲ / ▼ buttons on a tile move it one step.

Below, 002_3.png sat before 001_2.png; moving 001_2.png above it fixes the sequence:

Removing pages

Right-click a tile. If it is not already selected, right-clicking selects it first. The menu offers Remove N file(s) from list; after a confirmation, the selected pages are dropped from the project. Files on disk are untouched — only the list changes, and existing output becomes out of sync.

Clearing inputs

The Clear button empties the whole list after a confirmation. As with removing, nothing on disk is deleted and existing output goes out of sync.

Refresh files

The Refresh files button lives on the Output tab. It re-scans the project against disk and repaints the status badges — use it after editing images outside the app, or after changing output settings.

It does not mark the workspace as modified, and — unlike Refresh all projects (F6) — it does not render anything.

Today this button is on the Output tab and is aimed at output statuses; there is no separate refresh on the Input tab yet.

→ File statuses, Output profiles, Rendering

Moving between the tabs

Two buttons cross between the project's tabs:

• Go to rendering — at the bottom of the Input Toolbox, switches to the Output tab.
• Go to input settings — at the bottom of the Output Toolbox, switches back to Input.

See Output profiles and Rendering.

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See also: Concepts · Canvas profiles · Rendering · File statuses