Showing and Hiding Layers

When working with many layers, you can temporarily hide certain layers to avoid cluttering the stage.

You can also hide a group. When a group is hidden, all of the layers it contains appear hidden, but their individual visibility state is preserved. Therefore, if you hide only some layers inside a group, hide the group itself, then unhide the group, the layers that were individually hidden will remain hidden and the ones that were visible will be visible again.

  1. Do one of the following:
    • In the Layer panel or the Layers view, click the Show/Hide Layer icon just left of the layer.
    • In the Thumbnails view, click on the Show/Hide Layer icon just beneath the layer's name.
    • In the Layer panel, the Layers view or the Thumbnails view, right-click on the layer and select Show/Hide Layers
    • In the Layer panel, the Layers view or the Thumbnails view, select the layer, then select Layer > Show/Hide Layers from the top menu.
  1. Do one of the following:
  • In the Thumbnails view, ALT+Click the eyes icon beneath the layer's name to Show/Hide multiple layers.
  • In the Layer panel, the Layers view or the Thumbnails view, right-click on the layer and select Show/Hide Layer
  • ALT+Click the eyes icon to show or hide other layers.
  1. In one of the following locations:
  • Layer panel of the Camera or Stage view
  • Layer view
  • Thumbnail view

Alt + click the Show/Hide icon on the layer you wish to keep visible.

All other layers are hidden.

NOTE

For this feature to take effect, all layers except one must be hidden.

  1. In one of the following locations:
  • Layer panel of the Camera or Stage view
  • Layer view
  • Thumbnail view

Alt + click the Show/Hide icon on the only visible layer.

All layers become visible.