DutchDude Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 I have a vector file that someone else vectorized from a photo that needs to be cleaned up. It's got hundreds of items that sometimes are very small and hidden or at least in the wrong order. It would help if I could put items in front of or behind each other and not entirely to the front. Is that available somewhere? I tried searching help and forum. CorelDraw of 20 years ago had this. Is that hard to put in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 See image below Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchDude Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 Yes. Like that. Knew that. Now an option relative to another object? I don't want them totally in front, just in front of the other object I have there. But behind something else. There are hundreds of items in the file. I've been forwarding hundreds of times and it's still not in front of the one I want. Maybe grouping things moves them together? So I don't have to forward as many times. Not sure if that helps yet. Stuff has an order for a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Have you considered dragging the layer in the Layers panel? DutchDude 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchDude Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 You can do that? Great! Identifying those two wouldn't be that difficult. That said, IIRC in the 90s CorelDraw had 6 Arrange buttons. The 4 Designer has, plus the in front of... and behind... I know it's very Apple to not show many buttons, but sometimes they're just handy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 41 minutes ago, DutchDude said: I've been forwarding hundreds of times and it's still not in front of the one I want If you Cut the item (Edit > Cut) then select the layer in the layers panel of the layer you want it in front of, then do a paste, by default it will be pasted just in front of that layer adirusf and DutchDude 2 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchDude Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share Posted May 6, 2019 On 5/1/2019 at 3:35 PM, carl123 said: If you Cut the item (Edit > Cut) then select the layer in the layers panel of the layer you want it in front of, then do a paste, by default it will be pasted just in front of that layer Thank you! That'll work too! Still is a bit of a workaround, but it'll do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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