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Use the Properties panel

Understand how the right panel changes with your selection and where to edit layout, appearance, typography, images, and effects.

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Written by David Peng

The Properties panel on the right shows controls for the current Workspace, Visual, guide, or layer selection.

Choose what to inspect

  • With nothing selected, the panel shows Workspace guides.

  • Select a Visual to edit its name, dimensions, background, and Visual actions.

  • Select one layer to edit that layer’s transform and type-specific properties.

  • Select multiple layers to align, distribute, group, or change compatible shared properties.

  • Select a guide to edit its position, lock it, or delete it.

Transform and arrange

Use Transform for position, size, rotation, anchors, rotate 90°, and flip. Numeric controls support typing; many labels can also be dragged for quick scrubbing.

Edit a group’s layout

Groups can use Freeform or Auto Layout. Auto Layout controls include row or column direction, alignment, gap, padding, width and height sizing, and clipping. A child inside Auto Layout can use Hug, Fill, or Fixed sizing when the option is valid.

Edit text

  • Typography controls font family, weight, size, color, fills, spacing, alignment, and decoration.

  • Text box controls horizontal and vertical alignment, content offset, auto height or fixed size, clipping, and word wrap.

  • While editing characters on the canvas, compatible typography changes apply to the current text selection.

Edit images and shapes

  • Image controls fit/fill, crop behavior, content scale, anchor, offset, and image adjustments.

  • Shape controls the shape kind, corner radius, fill stack, and stroke stack.

  • Appearance and Effects control opacity, blend, paints, shadows, and adjustment effects.

Understand locks

A full lock disables editing. A position lock disables movement and geometry while leaving appropriate content and styling controls available. Some template fields can also lock text or image controls.

Apply matching styles

When a selected template-linked layer has matching layers, supported sections show Apply to all. This copies that property section while preserving content such as text and image identity. See the matching-layers guide before using this across many Visuals.

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