If the checkbox is ticked ☑, the layer is visible and will be included in the composite image when it is assembled. Layers can have their visibility toggled on and off. There is a checkbox beside each layer in the Layers Window which controls the layer visibility. To change a layer's Blend Mode, highlight the layer in the Layers Window (see above - the Active Layer) and press F4.Ī new Blend Mode can be selected from the drop-down list. Click on a new Blend Mode to apply it to the layer. Like Opacity, Blend Modes are applied to every pixel in the layer. Layers can have their own blend mode. The blend mode dictates how the layer is merged with lower layers when the image is composed. To change the value, click and drag the slider control or type a new value into the numerical value box.Ī demonstration of layer opacity can be seen below (Layers and Opacity). Opacity or Alpha values range from 0 (completely transparent) to 255 (completely opaque). To adjust a layer's Opacity setting, highlight the layer in the Layers Window (see above - the Active Layer) and press the F4 key. Layers can have their own opacity setting. Opacity is applied to every pixel in the layer, so it acts like layer-wide transparency setting. If there is text within the shapes, both the shape and text moves as one unit, saving you from moving the shapes and text as separate elements.Assign any layer the active status by clicking on the layer in the Layers Window.

There are, also, diagramming programs, that have make drawing simple geometric shapes easier to do and easier to move around and esier to edit and change their appaerance. What type of diagrams are you drawing/painting? So, there's the quick tutorial about layers. You can, also, more easily move elements around on a layer more easily that having all the elements on a drawing or painting on one layer. If you don't alike what you did on a layer, you can erase an entire layer and start drawing or painting on that layer, again, or delete the layer entirely. If you want to alter elements on a layer only that layer gets affected. You can build up a drawing or painting by putting different elements on different layers.

Think of layers as multiple sheet of clear paper or thin sheets of clear plastic that you can draw or paint on. Why are you afraid of applications that use layers? Layers are one of the easier concepts of both drawing and painting apps to understand and use.

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