For whatever reason, choosing “paste” will place the element in a random location that is different than its original location relative to the document’s X and Y axis.Īnd that’s all you have to do! Simply repeat this process with the rest of the design elements on your canvas to place them in their own designated layers and you’re done! Keyboard Shortcuts

It’s important that you choose “paste in place” over the standard “paste” option as pasting in place will ensure that the design element is not moved on the canvas. Next, select the layer you’d like to place it in by clicking on it in the Layers menu, then paste it in place by navigating to: The design element should disappear momentarily.

Select one group of objects and cut it by going to: Step 3: Cut and paste each group of objects into its corresponding layerĪll we have to do now to separate an image into layers in Inkscape is cut and paste them into their respective layers. If you’d like to learn more about how layers work in Inkscape check out my tutorial here. Name the layer and determine if you’d like to place it above or below the layer currently selected.Įach of my three groups of objects will be placed in one of three layers, so I have created three layers as depicted below: With the Layers menu opened, click the plus icon ( +) in the bottom-left corner of the menu to add a new layer. Once we’ve separated all of our design elements we can begin creating new layers.Īlternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut which is Control + Shift + L Step 2: Open the Layers menu and add as many new layers as needed Each of these three groups will be cut and pasted into new layers that we will create in the next step.

You can choose to separate your elements individually, or you can make them into groups as I did for this demonstration:Įach of the design elements in this example design have been segmented into one of three groups.

Inkscape logo tutorial using an image