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Splitting Layers

Your design idea may require applying different effects to different parts of text. The program allows you to use the same color, material, or texture with the whole layer. To apply different effects to individual letters, you have to put them into separate layers.

The program can help you create multiple layers out of a text layer. To make sure that you have a text layer, double-click on it. The Text tab of the Layer Content window should open displaying the text.

Note that you cannot merge the resulting layers back to create one text layer (except using the Edit > Undo command).

To put each character into an individual layer:

1. Select a text layer.
2. Select Layers > Split into Letters (Cmd-Ctrl-Opt-T). Or, right-click on the layer and select Split into Letters in the context menu.

The original document has one layer:

After splitting, the number of layers equals the numbers of letters in the original word:

To put a part of the text into an individual layer:

1. Select a text layer.
2. Choose Layers > Extract a Letter (Cmd-Ctrl-Opt-E). Or, right-click on the layer and choose Extract a Letter in the context menu.
3. Select one or several characters that you want to separate.

In the same original document as in the example above, the letter "é" was separated. We have three layers that contain everything before "é", "é", and the rest of the word.