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Layering objects together - iBooks Author Tutorial
From the course: iBooks Author Essential Training
Layering objects together
- We can add a lot of visual interest to our layouts by stacking objects together on our page. Let me show you what I mean. In the layout that we're working on creating our callout, we've got the image of the condors. If we click and drag that image, we can see that it is currently behind our two shapes that we created. However, if we click our rounded rectangle and try and move that up into place, we can see that that is sitting behind our regular rectangle. In order to bring that up in the layer stack, all we need to do is make sure that we have our rounded rectangle selected, then we can go up to the Arrange menu. From the Arrange menu, we can choose to bring an object forward one level, we can bring it all the way to the front, we can send it backwards one level, or we can send it all the way to the back. In this case we want to bring our rounded rectangle forward, so, we'll simply select Bring Forward and the rounded rectangle now sits on top of the regular rectangle. Let's go…
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