User Guide

Corel Painter 245
To move a layer:
1 On the Layers palette, select the
layer (or group) you want to move.
2 Choose the Layer Adjuster tool
from the toolbox.
3 In the document window, drag the
selected layer.
To nudge a layer:
1 On the Layers palette, select the
layer (or group) you want to move.
2 Press the arrow keys to move the
selected layer one pixel at a time.
To move a layer to a specific
location:
1 On the Layers palette, select a layer
or group.
2 Do one of the following:
• Click the palette menu arrow,
and choose Layer Attributes.
• For pixel-based layers and ref-
erence layers, double-click the
item on the Layers palette, or
select an item and press Return
(Mac OS) or Enter (Windows).
3 In the Layer Attributes dialog box,
type values in the following boxes:
• Top—distance in pixels from
the top edge of the canvas to
the top edge of the layer’s con-
tent. Increase to move the layer
down, or decrease to move the
layer up.
• Left—distance in pixels from
the left edge of the canvas to
the left edge of the layer’s con-
tent. Increase to move the layer
to the right, or decrease to move
the layer to the left.
Note
•
If you use negative values, or values
larger than the canvas dimensions, the
layer is placed partially or wholly outside
the canvas.
Aligning Layers
You can align layers horizontally or
vertically.
To align layers, the following steps are
performed:
• Corel Painter calculates the
“destination” point for the
alignment procedure.
For example, if you align layers to
the left, the destination is the left-
most point of all selected layers. If
you align horizontally to the
center, the destination is the
midpoint between the left-most
edge and the right-most edge of
the selected layers.
• Corel Painter aligns the
corresponding edge of each
selected layer’s bounding box to
the destination point.
For example, if you align layers to
the left, Corel Painter moves each
layer so that the left edge of its
bounding box lines up with the
destination point. If you align
horizontally to the center, Corel
Painter moves each layer so that
the horizontal midpoint of its
bounding box lines up with the
destination point.