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Use the Properties panel

The Properties panel on the right shows controls for the current Workspace, Visual, guide, or layer selection.

  • With nothing selected, the panel shows Workspace guides.

  • Select a Visual to edit its name, dimensions, background, and Visual actions.

  • Select one layer to edit that layer’s transform and type-specific properties.

  • Select multiple layers to align, distribute, group, or change compatible shared properties.

  • Select a guide to edit its position, lock it, or delete it.

Use Transform for position, size, rotation, anchors, rotate 90°, and flip. Numeric controls support typing; many labels can also be dragged for quick scrubbing.

Groups can use Freeform or Auto Layout. Auto Layout controls include row or column direction, alignment, gap, padding, width and height sizing, and clipping. A child inside Auto Layout can use Hug, Fill, or Fixed sizing when the option is valid.

  • Typography controls font family, weight, size, color, fills, spacing, alignment, and decoration.

  • Text box controls horizontal and vertical alignment, content offset, auto height or fixed size, clipping, and word wrap.

  • While editing characters on the canvas, compatible typography changes apply to the current text selection.

  • Image controls fit/fill, crop behavior, content scale, anchor, offset, and image adjustments.

  • Shape controls the shape kind, corner radius, fill stack, and stroke stack.

  • Appearance and Effects control opacity, blend, paints, shadows, and adjustment effects.

Edit compatible selections together, when available

Section titled “Edit compatible selections together, when available”

Select Text layers together, Shape layers together, or Image layers together to reveal shared styling controls. Ordinary selections stay within one Visual; matching-layer selection can span Visuals. Mixed-type selections keep arrangement controls rather than all type-specific controls.

A Mixed value means the selected editable layers differ. Changing one control applies that property to the editable selection while retaining unrelated properties. Locked layers are excluded; check the exclusion notice. Incompatible paint stacks may hide per-paint controls—use an explicit Replace action only when you intend to replace the stack. One committed field change is one Undo step.

A full lock disables editing. A position lock disables movement and geometry while leaving appropriate content and styling controls available. Some template fields can also lock text or image controls.

When a selected template-linked layer has matching layers, supported sections show Apply to all. This copies that property section while preserving content such as text and image identity. See Select matching layers and apply matching styles before using this across many Visuals.