Flash Professional CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide

6. Graphics on Multiple Layers

In This Chapter

Touring the Timeline’s Layer Features

Creating and Deleting Layers and Folders

Setting Layer Properties

Organizing Layers

Cutting and Pasting Between Layers

Distributing Graphic Elements to Layers

Working with Guide Layers

Working with Mask Layers

In Adobe Flash Professional CS6, you can create the illusion of three-dimensional depth by overlapping graphic elements. As you learned in Chapter 5, you can create this overlapping effect on one layer by stacking drawing-objects, primitive-shapes, groups, and symbols. The more elements the layer contains, however, the more difficult it becomes to manipulate and track their stacking order.

When you place items on separate layers, it’s easy to control ...