Copy, paste and the right-click menu

Copy layers and paste them as often as you like, a little apart or in the same place. Right-click a layer for a menu of what you can do with it: copy and paste, group, masks, align, arrange, flip and more.

Step by step

1. Copy the fish

   Click the fish on the canvas, then press Ctrl C. A message says 1 layer copied: the fish's group, with everything in it. Ctrl X cuts it instead.

2. Paste it

   Press Ctrl V. The copy lands a little right of and below the fish, just above the selected layer, and is selected. Ctrl Shift V pastes in place instead, exactly where the copied layer was.

3. Move the copy

   Drag the new fish to the right, so the two overlap only a little.

4. Open the right-click menu

   Right-click the new fish. The menu has the commands for the selected layers, among them Copy / Paste, Group, Delete, Select same, Animate, masks, Align, Arrange, Hide, Lock, Rotate 90° and Flip. Commands that don't apply are greyed out. Right-click a row in the Layers panel for the same menu.

5. Flip it

   Click Flip horizontal: the copy turns around its origin and swims the other way.

6. Send it backward

   Right-click it again, point at Arrange and click Send backward: the copy goes behind the first fish where they overlap, and below it in the Layers panel. Ctrl [ does the same.

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