Viewport Canvas supports painting in and editing individual layers, with full control over how layers interact with each other. You can apply transform layers, apply filters to them, and save a layered image in the Adobe Photoshop-native PSD format.
When you activate any painting tool in Viewport Canvas, the Layers dialog opens by default; you can toggle the dialog with the Layers Dialog button on the Viewport Canvas dialog. For details about the how to use layers in Viewport Canvas, see this procedure and the remainder of this section.
The five menus provide access to various layer-management functions. See Layers Dialog Menu Bar.
This drop-down list includes a number of Photoshop-type blend modes that determine how the layer image affects underlying layers. Available only for layers other than the background.
Only one blending mode can be applied to a layer, to use multiple blending modes, duplicate the layer and apply a different mode to each copy.
The amount by which the current layer obscures lower layers. At 100% opacity, lower layers are hidden; at lower opacity values the current layer is increasingly transparent.
Lists the layers in the current texture, including each layer’s name and thumbnail image. Layer contents appear in the image in the order listed, starting with the layer at the bottom of the list (the background layer) and going upwards. In other words, each layer is superimposed over the layers below it in the list.
The list provides the following features:
Makes an identical copy of the active layer, places it in the slot immediately above the active layer, and makes the duplicate layer active.
Creates a new, empty layer in the slot immediately above the active layer and makes the new layer active.
Deletes the active layer. This action is undoable.
When you use Viewport Canvas to add one or more layers to a single-layer bitmap texture such as a JPEG or PNG file and then exit the Paint or other tool, Viewport Canvas opens the Save Texture Layers dialog with a choice of options for handling the image. The choices are as follows: