ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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Selecting and arranging layers
To select one or more layers
Do any of the following:
• To select a layer, click the layer’s name or duration bar in the Timeline panel or the layer’s name in the Flowchart
panel.
• To select a layer, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) over the layer in the Composition panel, and
choose Select > [layer name].
• ToselectalayerifthelayerisopeninitsownLayerpanel,choosethelayernamefromtheWindowmenu,orclick
the tab of its Layer panel.
• To select a layer by position number, press the layer number on the numeric keypad. If the layer number has more
than one digit, type the numbers quickly so that After Effects can recognize them as a unit.
• To select all layers, choose Edit > Select All while the Timeline or Composition panel is in the foreground. To
deselect all layers, choose Edit > Deselect All.
• To deselect any currently selected layers and select all other layers; with at least one layer selected, choose Invert
Selection from the context menu in the Composition or Timeline panel.
• Toselectalllayersthatusethesamecolorlabel,clickthelayer’scolorlabelintheTimelinepanel,andchooseSelect
Label Group, or select the layer and choose Edit > Label > Select Label Group.
• To select all child layers assigned to a parent layer, select the parent layer and choose Select Children from the
context menu in the Composition or Timeline panel. The child layers are added to the existing selection.
Note: Selected layers that also have properties selected are indicated with a hollow highlight; to deselect a layer's
properties, leaving only the layer itself selected, click on the layer. A selected layer that has no properties selected is
indicated with a solid highlight.
See also
“About parent and child layers” on page 208
To change the layer stacking order
TheTimelinepaneldisplaysthelayerstackingorder.Theuppermostlayerinthecompositionappearsatthetopof
the layer outline list, the second layer is immediately below it, and so on. Changing the order of footage layers
modifies the appearance of your composition by repositioning footage in front of or behind other footage.
Changing the position of an adjustment layer in the stacking order changes which layers it affects, because an
adjustment layer affects only the layers below it.
Because of their depth properties, the stacking order of 3D layers in the Timeline panel does not necessarily reflect
their position in the Composition panel.
Do one of the following:
• In the Composition or Timeline panel, select the layer. Choose Layer and then choose Bring Layer Forward, Send
Layer Backward, Bring Layer To Front, or Send Layer To Back.
• In the Timeline panel, select the layers you want to move by name, and drag the name up or down the stacking
order.
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