Organizing Layers & Layer Groups

Every element on a slide is a layer. The Layers panel is your map of the slide — use it to see what is there, control what is visible or locked, and reorder things in front of or behind each other.

Opening the Layers Panel

In Advanced mode, open the Layers tab in the right sidebar. You will see a list of every layer on the current slide, top-most first.

Each row shows a small layer-type icon (text, image, shape, or icon), the layer name, and a row of inline action buttons that appear on hover or when the layer is selected.

Per-Layer Actions

• Visibility — Click the eye icon to hide a layer without deleting it. Hidden layers are shown struck-through in the panel and disappear from the canvas.
• Lock — Click the padlock to prevent the layer from being moved, resized, or deleted. Useful for protecting a background or pinning a logo. When at least one layer is locked, an Unlock all layers button appears next to the stack header — click it to release everything.
• Quick edit — When a layer is selected, the row expands to show inline controls: text content + font size for text layers, a thumbnail and Replace for image layers, a colour swatch for shapes, and a preview for icons.
• Delete — Trash icon (with a confirmation dialog), or select the layer and press Delete.

Z-Order (Front / Back)

The order of layers in the panel matches their stacking on the canvas — the row at the top of the list sits in front of everything below it.

There are two ways to change z-order:

• Drag a row up or down in the layers panel to reorder it directly.
• Right-click a layer on the canvas and use the Layer Order sub-menu for four shortcut actions:
• Bring to Front — Move all the way to the top of the stack.
• Bring Forward — Move up one position.
• Send Backward — Move down one position.
• Send to Back — Move all the way to the bottom.

The same z-order buttons are available in the Arrange panel (visible when one or more layers are selected).

Background

A slide background is conceptually a layer but lives separately from the regular layer stack. When the slide has a background image, the layers panel shows a dedicated BG row at the very bottom. Click it to focus the background — the sidebar swaps to the slide settings, where you can replace the image, change the overlay, or remove the background entirely.

Layer Groups (Reusable Selections)

In template-editing mode you can save a selection of layers as a reusable group and paste it onto another slide later. They are great for footer signatures, watermarks, or any repeating block across a carousel.

Saving a group

1. Shift+click (or marquee) to select the layers you want to group.
2. Right-click the selection and choose Save as Group.
3. Give the group a name in the dialog and confirm.

Using a saved group

1. Click the Groups button in the left toolbar to open the Saved Groups sheet.
2. Click any group to paste all of its layers onto the current slide (the new copies become the selection).
3. Hover a user-saved group row to reveal a trash icon that deletes the group. Global groups can't be deleted from here.

Tip: A "name + handle + tag line" footer is the perfect candidate for a layer group — save it once, then drop it onto every slide of every carousel you build.

Selection Tips

• Click empty canvas to deselect everything.
• Click a layer row in the panel to select it on the canvas, even if it is hidden behind other layers.
• Use Shift+click in the panel to build a multi-selection without hunting around the canvas.