Selecting

Before you can move or modify layers, you must first select them. Furthermore, you can select and edit a single layer (including layer masks, adjustment layers and fill layers) in isolation.

Layers can be renamed for easy identification or given a unique tag colour to differentiate content belonging to different layers.

Auto-select

By default, the Auto-select option is checked on the context toolbar. As expected, it automatically selects the layer content and its layer entry when you click to select it on the page. The option can be disabled if preferred.

Edit All Layers and Select All

The behaviour of the Select All command depends on the Edit All Layers setting on the Layers panel:

Selection box types

For some shapes (e.g. star shapes), a Base box type will be established on shape creation to accommodate the range of different potential shape sizes when creating variants of that shape. However, you can temporarily swap to a 'tighter' bounding box called Regular bounds if needed. The latter is useful for accurately resizing a shape by its corner/edge handles to another object or page element.

Base box and regular bounds
Selection box types: Base box (A) and Regular bounds (B)

For rotated multiple selections of objects or pixel layers, you can temporarily reorient the selection's selection box to vertical using the same Regular bounds type. Otherwise, the selection box will stay transformed with the transformed item.

Rotated multiple selection with reoriented selection box
Rotated multiple selection before (A) and after (B) reorienting the selection box to Regular bounds

It's possible to permanently set the object's selection box to orient to the page's horizontal and vertical edges. The object is unaffected. When reselecting the items again, the selection box will remain unrotated.

If you're using axonometric grids, the additional selection box type Planar bounds, which matches the current grid, can also be swapped to and be made permanent if needed.

Move Tool To select a layer:

Do one of the following:

Move Tool To select multiple layers:

Do one of the following:

To select all layers:
Expand/Collapse To select a specific child layer:
  1. On the Layers panel, expand the parent layer or layer group to show its contents by clicking the layer's arrow.
  2. Click to select the child layer.
Move Tool To deselect layers:
To select all layers sharing the same name:
To select all layers sharing a tag colour:
To select other layers in a selected layer's z-order:

Do one of the following:

To control automatic selection behaviour:
To cycle between selection box types:
To set the selection box permanently:
  1. Cycle to the selection box you want using Cycle Selection Box on the Select Menu.
  2. On the same menu, choose Set Selection Box.
To find a layer in the Layers panel manually:

Do one of the following:.

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