Arrange/manage layers

Arrange and manage layer operations let you show/hide, reorder, duplicate, or lock layers.

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Reordering an object in the Layers panel

Show or hide layers to include/exclude layers (and layer objects) in your document and any output. You can also hide/show a selection of layers in one operation, as well as all other layers apart from any currently selected layers.

Any layer can also be reordered in the layer stack to change layer object ordering, or duplicated to improve efficiency. Locking prevents a layer or layer objects from being moved, resized, flipped or rotated (but still remains editable).

Toggle Visibility To hide or show a layer:
Toggle Visibility To hide or show selected layers in one operation:
  1. On the Layers panel, select multiple layers using -click or -click.
  2. Click on the Toggle Visibility icon on any of the selected layers.
To show all hidden layers:
To hide or show all other layers (except selected):
To reorder layers:

Do one of the following:

To duplicate a layer:
  1. In the Layers panel, select a layer.
  2. In the Edit menu, select Duplicate.

The duplicate layer is added above the selected layer.

Lock/Unlock To lock a layer (or layer object):
  1. On the Layers panel, select the layer(s) or object(s) to be locked.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Select Lock/Unlock.
    • From the Layer menu, select Lock.

Select Lock/Unlock again or use the Layer menu's Unlock item, to allow the layer contents or object to be transformed again.

To unlock all layers (or layer objects):

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