User Guide

Corel Painter 239
you cannot paint across layers in a
group or change the composite
method for a group.
To work with individual layers in a
group, you must open the group.
Close the group to regain control of
the group as a unit.
Collapsing a group reduces its
contents to a single layer.
To create a group:
1 On the Layers palette, select the
layers you want to group.
Refer to “Selecting Layers” on
page 235 for more information
about selecting multiple layers.
2 Do one of the following:
• Click the Layer Commands
button , and choose Group.
• Click the palette menu arrow,
and choose Group.
The layers are collected under a
group item on the Layers palette.
Note
•
If you select non-sequential layers
(layers not next to each other in the list),
Corel Painter creates the group at the
position of the top-most layer.
To open and close a group:
• On the Layers palette, click the
triangle icon to the left of the
group.
When the arrow points down
and you can see the group items,
the group is open. When the arrow
points to the right and the
names of the group members are
hidden, the group is closed.
To add a layer to a group:
1 On the Layers palette, open the
destination group.
2 Drag a layer to the group.
Tip
•
You can create a nested group by
dragging a closed group to the open
destination group.
To remove a layer from a group:
1 Open the group.
2 Drag the layer out of the group.
To ungroup layers:
1 On the Layers palette, select the
group.
If the group is open, click the
triangle icon to close it.
2 Do one of the following:
• Click the Layer Commands
button , and choose
Ungroup.
• Click the palette menu arrow,
and choose Ungroup.
To collapse a group:
1 On the Layers palette, select the
group.
2 Do one of the following:
• Click the Layer Commands
button , and choose Col-
lapse.
• Click the palette menu arrow,
and choose Collapse.
If the group contains shapes,
Liquid Ink layers, or dynamic
layers, the Commit dialog box is
displayed. Click Commit All to
convert the items to pixel-based