Corel PHOTO-PAINT Help | Display and arrange objects

Display and arrange objects

You can hide an object from view and change the stacking order of objects.

Displaying and hiding objects

By default, all objects are displayed in the image window. However, you can hide an object to make it temporarily invisible.

Changing the order of objects

When you create multiple objects in an image, they are stacked on top of one another in the order in which they were created. The most recently created object is at the top of the stack, and the image background is at the bottom. You can move an object in the image window to cover an object that is lower in the stacking order; however, an object always displays behind objects that are higher in the stacking order. Changing the stacking order of objects brings hidden objects into view or places the topmost objects behind other objects.

Changing the stacking order places the bike behind the boxes.

To hide or display an object

• In the Objects docker, click the Hide/Show icon

next to an object thumbnail.

If the Objects docker is not open, click Window

Dockers

Objects.

When an object is hidden, the Hide/Show icon is not displayed.

When you hide the background, a checkered transparency grid displays. To customize the transparency grid, click Tools Options Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Click Display, and modify any attributes in the Transparency grid area.

To change the order of objects

1 Select an object.

2 Click Object

Order, and click one of the following:

• To front — places the selected object in front of all objects in the image

• To back — places the selected object behind all objects in the image

• Forward one — places the selected object in front of the object it is currently behind

• Back one — places the selected object behind the object it is currently in front of

• Reverse order — reverses the stacking order of the selected objects. This command is available only when multiple objects are selected.

The image background is always placed at the bottom of the stacking order and no object can be placed below it.

When objects are grouped, they are considered to be at the same level in the stacking order. Therefore, you cannot place an object between individual objects in a group.

You can change the stacking order of an object by dragging its thumbnail to a new position in the Objects docker. If the Objects docker is not open, click Window Dockers Objects.

You can also change the order of objects using shortcut keys. Move an object to the top of the stack by pressing Shift + Page up; move it to the bottom of the stack, but above the background, by pressing Shift + Page down; move it up one step in the stacking order by pressing Ctrl+ Page up; and move it down one step by pressing Ctrl+ Page down.