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# Designer overview & Workspace

Tour the Designer — the Captivate window where you edit and build graphics — before you start changing anything.

The Designer is a separate workspace from the playout main view. Read this chapter once so you can name every panel: the Workspace canvas, the Timeline where animation lives, and the Properties Panel where every layer setting is exposed. Once you can find each surface, the editing chapters that follow will make sense.

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## What’s in this chapter

* [Designer Workspace panel](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-1/designer-workspace-overview.md) — the canvas at the center of the Designer, where you click in and shape graphics directly with the mouse, in 2D and 3D.
* [Designer Library panel](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-1/designer-library-panel.md) — use this to find the templates, styles, effects, and other components you build a design from.
* [Designer Timeline panel](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-1/designer-timeline-overview.md) — use this when you need to understand how layers and animation are arranged in time.
* [Designer Properties panel](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-1/designer-properties-panel.md) — use this when you need to find a specific layer setting.

## Related

* [Design & customize graphics — section overview](/design-and-customize-graphics/branch-index.md)
* [Build a graphic from scratch](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-2.md) — the next chapter once you know the Workspace.


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