- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
-
What's new
- New features
-
Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
-
Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
-
Create with templates
- Create templates
- Edit templates
-
Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
-
Organize your designs
- Arrange layers and pages
- Import assets
-
Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
-
Share and publish
-
Share and collaborate
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Present a design
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Printing in Adobe Express FAQ
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
- Schedule and publish content
-
Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
-
Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply your brand colors and fonts to designs
- Best practices to apply your brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Set brand style controls overview
- Share a template with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Copy files, brands, and libraries
- Move files, brands, and libraries
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Import PDFs on mobile
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
- File conversion issues
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
-
Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
-
For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- For students
-
For educators
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
-
What's new
- New features
-
Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
-
Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
-
Create with templates
- Create templates
- Edit templates
-
Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
-
Organize your designs
- Arrange layers and pages
- Import assets
-
Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
-
Share and publish
-
Share and collaborate
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Present a design
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Printing in Adobe Express FAQ
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
- Schedule and publish content
-
Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
-
Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply your brand colors and fonts to designs
- Best practices to apply your brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Set brand style controls overview
- Share a template with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Copy files, brands, and libraries
- Move files, brands, and libraries
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Import PDFs on mobile
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
- File conversion issues
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
-
Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
-
For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- For students
-
For educators
Work with layers
Last updated on
Aug 19, 2024
Learn about layers in Adobe Express and what opening and rearranging layers mean.
Try it in the app
Use any of your designs and work with layers in a few simple steps.
Layers act as levels in your canvas where you can easily position images, videos, shapes, and other design elements. Layers allow you to establish a visual hierarchy and adjust the position of individual objects within your design.
Open the layer panel
Layers are arranged in a stack in the layer panel, located to the right of the canvas. Select the Layers icon from the toolbar to open the layers panel.
Rearrange layers
Bring a layer forward or send it backward by selecting the layer and moving it up or down. This adjusts the position of the corresponding object in your design.
Note:
You can also rearrange the order of the objects in the canvas. Select and right-click an object and choose one of these four options: Bring To Front, Bring Forward, Send Backwards, or Send To Back.
Lock layers
You can lock a layer to avoid the objects getting easily moved on the canvas. You can lock a layer by simply selecting the layer and the Lock icon on the left panel.
Use the Lock icon to lock or unlock the layer to avoid any intentional changes on other layers than the intended one.
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