Layout and Details

Layout and Details are the second and third tabs of the design editor. See The editor . Layout moves pieces. Details changes them. A piece picked on one tab stays picked on the other.

Layout

With nothing picked, the foot of the window reads Layout alone, and the window reads Tap a piece on the design or in the list. Its position and size show here. The side bar’s place is the Layers list: one line per piece on the design. See Layers.

Tap a piece on the design, or its line in the list. The foot reads Layout · Drag it on the design, or tap another piece. The top of the window shows the piece’s name, Done, and Remove. Done picks nothing. Remove takes the piece off the design. The window has one set of even rows:

Position: Nine buttons for nine spots on the design, and Free transform. The line under the row reads Or drag the piece on the design. It can run past the edge; the page cuts off what hangs over. Free transform lights up while the piece is off the nine spots. Tap it to put the piece back in its place from before you tapped a spot.
Move: Four arrows move the piece one grid step. Fine makes each step a quarter of a grid step. Within half a step of a neighbor’s edge, middle, or equal gap, a step lands there, and a step stops short of a box in its row.
Size: − and +, with the size in percent. A Size step or a pinch stops at a neighbor’s width or height, so pieces side by side match.
Fit: Puts a box round its words, or a Zone round the pieces inside it, with even room all round. A new text piece lands at the size its words need and grows as you type, until you size it by hand. Tap Fit to make it follow its words again. Fit lights up while the box follows.
Rotation: ↺ and ↻ turn the piece 15° at a time.
Flip: Off or Mirror, on a fig.
Layer: On a box, a group, or a piece inside a box: Background, Back, or Front, and two arrows to move the piece under or over its neighbors. The Layers list sets the order too.
Group: Ungroup, on a group or a piece with parts. See Groups and parts.
Aim: Four arrows point a bubble’s tail, a Callout’s line, or a Point tag. A part button names the fig’s part the spot follows. See Part callouts .
Stick to: None, or the fig’s part under a stamp. A stamp on a part moves with the part in a loop or a video.
Piece: Hide, Lock, and Copy. A hidden piece shows nowhere: not on the design, in a still, a loop, a video, the card’s picture, or a design file’s picture. A locked piece takes no drag or pinch; a tap still picks it, and Move and Size still move it. Copy puts a copy beside the piece.
Comes with: The piece’s companions, one button each. See Companions.
Inside: One button per piece inside a box. See Boxes.

The box and the fig inside

A picked picture box with a fig in it has a You are editing switch at the top of its Layout window: The box or The fig inside. The box and the fig each show their own outline color on the design.

The box: The rows above move and size the box.
The fig inside: Show the fig with Turntable, Its moves, Front, Side, or Back, and Put back and Remove; Turn the fig with ↺ and ↻, 15° at a time; Tilt the fig with − and +; and Zoom the fig with − and +. The line under them reads Drag to turn. Pinch to zoom.

A second tap on a filled picture box on the design switches to The fig inside. Pick another piece, and the switch goes back to The box.

On the design

Tap a piece to pick it. Tap open space to pick nothing.
Tap the same spot again to pick the piece under the picked one. Each tap goes one piece further down, then back to the top. On a group, the first tap picks the group, and the second the part under your finger.
Drag a piece with one finger. A faint grid shows while it moves. It snaps to the grid, to the design’s edges and middle, and to the other pieces and boxes, with a tick in your hand at each new place. A piece dragged past the page edge stays there, and the page cuts off the part past the edge.
Near a stack of pieces, a piece you drag, tap down, or step with Move lands at the gap the stack already has, and the guide shows the equal gaps. A tap a little high or low on a stack lands in its next place, never on the piece above.
A new piece put down in a column joins it: it takes the column’s side and lines up with its edge.
Pinch a picked piece with two fingers to size it about its middle. On a Zone or a Text box, a spread mostly one way sizes that side alone. A locked piece stays as it is.
On The fig inside, drag across the fig’s picture to turn the fig: side to side in 15° steps, and up and down to raise or lower the view. Pinch with two fingers on the fig to zoom in or out. With a mouse, the wheel zooms.
A picked bubble has a ring at the end of its tail. Drag the ring to point the tail anywhere.
On a picked Tier list, tap a fig, then tap a row to move the fig there.

Layers

Layers lists every piece on the design in one list, top to bottom, with the figs in it like anything else. The design’s Background is last. Each line has a handle, a picture of the piece, its name on as many lines as it needs, an eye, and a lock.

Tap a line to pick its piece on the design. Pick a piece on the design, and its line lights up.
Drag a line’s handle up or down to put the piece anywhere in the order, between two figs too. A drag at the list’s edge scrolls the list. The design’s Background and Border lines stay in place.
Tap the eye to hide a piece, and again to show it. Tap the lock to lock it.
A piece’s line opens into its companions. An off companion shows dim, and its eye is its switch.
A box’s line opens into the pieces inside it. Drag a line to reorder inside the box, to move a piece into another box, or out of every fold to make it loose.
An effect on the design has its own line, with an eye and no handle or lock. Tap the line to open Finish › Effects. See Effects .

The order saves with the design. An older Ünflat draws the design with its three bands, Front, Back, and Background, from the nearest one. A design saved before the list draws as it did, to the pixel.

The Layers list shows on Details too, with nothing picked.

Groups and parts

Over the list are Select, Group, and Ungroup. Turn on Select, then tap lines, or pieces on the design, to pick several. Group puts them in one group, named after the first piece you picked. A group folds: its line has an arrow that opens it, with its pieces indented under it.

Some pieces open into their parts: a Fig ID with Card, Photo, Name line, Numbers, Signature, and Holo dot; a Social post with Card, Name line, Photo, Likes, and Caption; a Stat list with Box, then a line for each stat; a fig’s box with Fig, Frame when it has one, and Shadow; and Fig facts, Receipt, Big number, Now playing, Ticket, and QR code.
Long-press a group’s line to rename it. The box reads Group name.
Ungroup takes a group apart. On a piece with parts, each part becomes a piece of its own, in the same place and at the same size, so the design looks the same.
A group’s eye and lock work on everything in it. Drag a group’s line to move the whole group in the order. Drag a line out of the fold, and the piece leaves the group. A drag on the design leaves a group with a locked piece in place.
Groups go two levels deep. A group left with one piece ends.

A picked group’s Layout window has Position, Move, Size, Layer, Fit on a Zone, and Group with Ungroup. Move and Size leave each piece in its place in the group. Remove takes off everything in the group. On Details, a group has Style under Look, for everything in it.

A picked part’s Layout window has Move and Size. A part stays inside its piece. On Details, a part has Color with Auto first under Look, its own words under Text, and the pictures strip under Picture on a photo part. Remove hides the part, and its eye in the list brings it back. A fig’s Shadow has only its eye.

Companions

Every piece comes with its companions, attached and off: a Box, a Border, a Band, a Frame, a Label, Tags, or a Title line, by the kind of piece. Nothing shows until you switch one on.

Comes with, at the foot of a picked piece’s Layout window, has one button per companion, lit while it is on. Each tap is one Undo step. An off companion draws nowhere.
A companion is local to its piece. Move, size, turn, copy, hide, or remove the piece, and its companions come along.
Titles, subtitles, captions, text boxes, paragraphs, headlines, bars, and the other word pieces come with a Box and a Border. A Stat list, Stat icons, Model stats, and Fig facts come with Tags and a Box. A Graph, a Chart, a Lineup by height, and a Tier list come with a Box and a Title line. Badges, stamps, tickets, QR codes, barcodes, and the other small pieces come with a Border. A ticker and a Footer bar come with a Band. A fig’s box and an empty picture box come with a Frame, a Box, and a Label, the Label with the fig’s name. A scene’s box comes with a Frame and a Label.
Tap a companion on the design, or its line in the list, to pick it. A line under the piece’s name reads, for example, Box · Part of · Caption, and the button picks the piece again. Layout shows Move and one row: Padding on a Box, Border, Band, or Frame, with Inset below zero, and Offset on a Label, Title line, or Tags. A box Label has a Place row instead. See Box labels .
Drag a companion’s edge to size it, or drag from inside to move it. Details shows its own tools: Fill, Border, and Style under Look on the box kinds, and the words under Text on a Label or a Title line.
Remove on a companion makes it a loose piece in its place. Remove on the piece takes its companions too.

Boxes

A Zone, a Card panel, a Frame piece, a Ruled box, a piece’s Box companion, and a Shape with a panel outline take pieces inside them.

Pick a box on Layout, then open Start: the line over the tiles reads Into Zone. Every piece you put down goes in the box, even one tapped outside it, and lands with its middle inside.
A piece dragged with its middle over a box joins it. Dragged out, it comes loose. One Undo step each.
The pieces go with the box: move, size, turn, copy, hide, lock, and remove. Sizing a box sizes its pieces. Fit wraps the box round its pieces with even room on every side and leaves them in place.
A first tap on a piece inside a box picks the box; a second tap picks the piece. The line under the piece’s name reads, for example, Caption · Part of · Zone, and Done picks the box again. The box’s Inside row has one button per piece.
Remove on a boxed piece leaves it loose in its place. Remove on the box takes its pieces too.

A design can have 200 pieces. Companions and boxed pieces count.

Details

The foot of the window reads Details · Tap a piece to change its words and look. With nothing picked, the window reads Tap a piece on the design or in the list. Its words and look show here., with the Layers list beside it and an Edit all the words button. The button opens every word on the design in one list. See Words on a design .

With a piece picked, the side bar has four pages: Text, Picture, Look, and Motion. A piece shows only the pages it uses, and only the rows that apply, so a page stays short. The side bar opens on the page you used last. The window’s head names the piece: Text on a word piece, Ticker, Fig, or Scene. Details has no position rows: those are on Layout. Rows that need a word get one short line under them.

Text

The piece’s own word boxes, the same boxes the words list has. A Stat list has Header here too. See The table maker .
Number: The count on a Big number: Faces, Parts, Colors, or Moves.
Count: The number of marks on a bar, with − and +.
Stats: Full or Short on Model stats.
Font: The kit’s two fonts, then More ▾ with every caption font, each in its own face.
Alignment: Left, Center, or Right.
Text color: Auto, the accents, the paper and ink colors, the fig’s colors, or +. On a Frame and on a Border in an edge, the row reads Line color.
Gradient: Runs the letters from their color at the top to a second color at the foot.
Curve: Sets words on an Arc or around a Circle, on a title, a subtitle, a badge, or a masthead.

Picture

The pictures strip: your figs, your scenes’ shots, or a fig’s parts, named after the strip that is open. Tap one to put it in the box. On a fig piece, tap your figs to show them on the piece.
Show the fig: Turntable, Its moves, Front, Side, or Back, with Put back and Remove. Its moves plays the fig’s own moves, from the angle you set. It is dim for a fig with no moves. An angle you set by hand stays through Its moves.
Turn the fig: ↺ and ↻, 15° at a time. Tilt the fig lowers or raises the view. Zoom the fig has − and +, with the line Drag to turn. Pinch to zoom.
Crop: Full, Rounded, or Circle, on a shot.
Pose: One of the fig’s saved poses. See The Studio kit .
Picture frame: None, Line, Polaroid, Taped, Ring, Window, Star, Burst, Plus, Cross, Heart, Triangle, Slant, Cut, the Terminal looks, and the twelve edges. The line under it reads Draws a frame around the picture. Window is on the Game kit only. Neon on a fig’s box traces the fig’s own outline. A Frame piece has the same looks from Line on, plus Panel, Rounded panel, and Pixel ▾. The Studio kit adds Gold and Wood.
Cut-out: Break out lets the fig break out of its frame.
Line: Off or On, a line from a part’s box to its part. See Part callouts .
Split into panels: 1 to 4, with Angle and Panel under it. The line reads Cuts the box into comic-style panels. See Panels .
Fade: Fades the picture’s edges into the background, with Vignette beside it: Off, Soft, Deep, or Dark.
Photo booth filter: Off or On. The line reads Bright, soft and glowing, like a sticker booth photo.
Sticker: Off or On, a die-cut edge around the fig.
Wire: Off or On, the wire lines on a fig or a Texture sheet. Tris on a Texture sheet adds the diagonals.
Double exposure: A second, soft picture behind the fig. See The Studio kit .
Sky: On or Off, the sky in a shot.
Clip: The clip on Now playing: None or one of your clips.
Turns: On a Lineup, Turns with Together or Wave, Speed, Direction, and Step. See Animation .

Look

Fill: None, Panel, the design’s three accents, its paper and ink colors, the fig’s colors, and + for any color, with Accent under it. Then Pattern, Paper, Grid, Dots, Halftone, Sky, Floor, Lined, and Kraft. Pattern opens your patterns and the starters. A Background and a picture box add Living sky and six booth backgrounds: Gingham, Pastel, Hearts, Glitter, Rays, and Soft lights. A Background adds Picture, a shot from your scenes. The Studio kit adds its backdrops. A pattern with pages and a living sky move in loops and videos.
Border: The piece’s border, with Pixel ▾ and Neon color under it. The design’s Border has None, Hairline, Double hairline, Plain, Terminal, Double, Dashes, Blocks, Box lines, Brackets, Edge, the twelve edges, and Pixel ▾. A box of words has None, Hairline, Plain, the Terminal looks, Panel, and Rounded panel. Shapes, stamps, and big words have None and Neon.
Bleed: Lets a piece run past the design’s edge. The line reads Runs the piece right to the page edge. Size then grows it up to three times the design.
Style: The piece’s own looks. A title has Plain, Outline, Shadow, Underline, Stacked, Condensed, Spaced, Boxed, Thick line, and Highlight, then Turned and Bleed. A subtitle has Rule, Bare, Column, Ticker, and Label. A badge has Lozenge, Sticker, Tag, Bare, [ ], and | |. A Chart has Bars, Radar, and Colors, with From and Fig under them.
Decoration: Plain, Decorated, or Ornate, as picture tiles. The line reads Adds lines and corners around the piece. Watch the design as you tap.
Effect: None, Shadow, Glow, Hollow, Sticker, or Bubble letters, on titles, subtitles, badges, and other big words.
Color: A part’s own color, Auto first.
Lines: A table’s lines. See The table maker .
Shape: A Shape piece’s shape, from Star to Squiggle, or a text box’s: Box, Rounded, Circle, Slant, or Cut. Edges sets the sides of an Edge text: Top and bottom, Sides, All, Top, or Bottom.
Type: A bar’s marks: Pips, Dots, Stars, Slim, Gauge, or Hearts.
Stamp: A sticker’s art, one of eleven, with its Color: Auto, the design’s colors, the fig’s colors, pastels, or +.
Pen: A drawing’s pen, its Color, and a trail’s Stamp. See Pens.

Motion

On a piece that can move. See Pieces that move .

Entrance: The line reads Plays once when the design starts.
Loop: The line reads Repeats while the design plays.
Move: Last, All, or In turn, on a blinking bar or stat icons.

Pens

The pens are on Start › Boxes and frames, under Draw your own: the Draw with a pen tile. It opens the pen page, with Pen and Color, in every kit. The head reads Draw with a pen, and Back to Boxes and frames returns to the tiles. The foot of the window reads Drag on the design to draw.

Glitter: A gold line with flecks and sparkles. The sparkles twinkle in a loop or a video. The pens open on Glitter the first time.
Neon: A cream line with a colored glow.
Double line: A color inside a cream edge.
Rainbow: Red to violet along the line.
Stamp trail: Stamps laid along the line, each tilted a little. The Stamp row has Hearts, Stars, and Sparkles.

The Color row has the fig’s colors, then pastels, then + for any color. Stamp trail adds Mix. Rainbow has no Color row. A color you pick stays on for the other pens.

Drag on the design to draw. The line follows your finger and becomes a piece as you lift it. A tap picks the piece under it, and a line takes a tap only on the line itself. To move a line, tap it, then drag it on Layout.

A picked line has Position, Move, Size, Rotation, and Layer on Layout, and Style, Bleed, and Pen under Look on Details. Pen switches the line to another pen. On Style, Plain drops the sparkles, the glow, and the stamps’ cream edge, and Ornate adds a soft shadow. The Layers list names each line by its pen.