MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 2-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 27

Layers panel and Frames panel
Navigate quickly to
a specific frame.
Change global view and lock
settings; create, delete, and rename
layers using the Options pop-up.
See "Icon buttons"
on page 28.
Lock and unlock individual layers.
Show or hide individual layers.
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.
Drag to rearrange
layers. Double-click
to rename a layer.
Drag to assign selected
objects to another layer.
Share objects across frames.
Create, delete, and duplicate frames.
Distribute items across frames. Copy
selected items to specific frames.
See "Icon buttons"
on page 28.
Activate and
control onion
skinning.
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.
Getting Your Bearings
Drag to rearrange
frames.
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