Guide · 04 — Arrange

Align, layer, group — bring your annotations to order

Once they're drawn, let them grow into order. VAS helps you align, distribute, group and stack your annotations — snap as the cursor nears, arrange a whole selection at once, move a group together, and let layers decide what sits on top.

Smart Snap & Guides

As you move an object, VAS surfaces guides to help you align — no shaky hand-aiming.

  • Blue lines — appear when an object's edge or center aligns to another object or the canvas center line.
  • Red lines — equal-spacing guides; they light up when three or more objects are evenly spaced, for gauging layout rhythm.
  • \ — toggle snapping on and off.
  • Alt + drag — temporarily skip snapping and place freely.
= Equal Left edges

Blue = edge / center align · Red = equal-spacing guide

Multi-select Align & Distribute

Marquee-select or Shift-click several objects and an align toolbar appears at the top to arrange them all at once:

Align
  • Align left to the left edge of the leftmost object
  • Center H horizontally centered
  • Align right to the right edge of the rightmost object
  • Align top to the top edge of the topmost object
  • Center V vertically centered
  • Align bottom to the bottom edge of the bottommost object
Distribute
  • Distribute H even horizontal spacing
  • Distribute V even vertical spacing
More
  • Align to center line to the canvas center line
  • Flip horizontal left–right
  • Flip vertical top–bottom
Selected → Align top + Distribute H

Scattered multi-selection → aligned and evenly distributed in one click

Groups

Combine several objects into one — move, scale and rotate them together without scattering. Ungroup when you need them apart again.

  • Group — combine a selection into a group; a single click then selects the whole group.
  • Edit inside — double-click into a single object within the group to edit it on its own; it stays in the group when you leave.
  • Ungroup — break the group back into individual objects to edit separately.
One group · move / scale together

Several objects grouped — the frame and handles move together

Layer Order

When annotations overlap, layer order decides what covers what. Right-click an object:

  • Bring to front / send to back — jump straight to the top or bottom layer.
  • Move up / down one layer — fine-tune the stacking order one step at a time.
↑ Front Right-click · bring to front / send to back · move up / down

When they overlap, layer order decides what covers what