MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 2, Use Manual

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Getting Your Bearings 27
Layers panel and Frames panel
Use the Layers and Frames panels to organize and
animate your illustration. Layers divide an
illustration into discrete planes, as though the
components of the illustration were drawn on
separate tracing paper overlays.
Use the Layers panel to manage multilayered
documents. The Options pop-up includes commands
for creating, deleting, and renaming layers and
commands for viewing and locking all layers. Choose
Share Layer to share the selected layer across all frames
in the document. Choose Single-Layer Editing to
prevent accidental changes to layers other than the
selected layer.
The Web Layer, reserved for web objects such as
hotspots and slices, and cannot be renamed or deleted.
To show or hide individual layers, click the Show/Hide
icon at the left of the layer name. When the icon is
visible, the layer is also visible. Similarly, clicking the
Lock/Unlock icon locks and unlocks individual layers.
When a layer is locked, items on that layer may not be
moved or deleted.
To move a selected object to another layer, drag the
“Selected Objects” icon.
Use the Frame pop-up to quickly choose a different
frame in your document without switching to the
Frames panel.
Navigate quickly to
a specific frame.
Lock and unlock individual layers.
Change global view and lock
settings; create, delete, and rename
layers using the Options pop-up.
Show or hide individual layers.
Drag to rearrange
layers. Double-click
to rename a layer.
Drag to assign selected
objects to another layer.
See “Icon buttons”
on page 28.
Create, delete, and duplicate frames.
Distribute items across frames. Copy
selected items to specific frames.
Drag to rearrange
frames.
Activate and
control onion
skinning.
See “Icon buttons”
on page 28.
Share objects across frames.