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Arrange, group, or merge layers

Arrange, group, or merge layers - Pixelmator Tutorial

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Arrange, group, or merge layers

- Once the document really starts to take shape, you might notice that things are a little disorganized. That's because there's a lot of layers and some of them belong together while others are gonna need to be moved around, or adjusted independently. This is where grouping comes in. I'll close some of the unused windows, and the cloned area and the background photo really belong together. So I'll click on one, and then shift click to choose the other. If I press command G, you'll see that they become grouped. And we can name that group, Photo Layers. And press return. Now, here's the vignette layer. And that's fine as it is. But, I think I should put it inside this group, so that it gets treated as part of it. So I'll just drag that into the group, and you see that it stacks inside. If you change your mind, you can pull it back out, and it removes. So this allows you to drop things within, and even change the stacking order inside the group. That looks good. And now that that's…

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