Using Shapes & Layers in iWork

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody! My name is Matt and I'm speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. You can also add different types of shapes to your document. If you click the shapes tab up here at the top, it's going to give you a list of different shapes that you can add. I'm going to go ahead and add a circle here. You can move these around and resize them just like we did our other objects. If you open up your inspector and go to the shapes tab, you've got some different options here. You can change the color on the inside or the stroke around the outside. You can even turn it off if you want. I'm going to add a little drop shadow here to it. You can also change the opacity down here at the bottom. When you start getting a lot of different objects, you might have them overlapping. I wanted to show you how if you wanted to bring one to the front. I'm going to click my picture here and right click it or control click it. Select bring to front and that's going to change which object is at the front. You can also send it to the back or you can send it forwards or backwards by one if you've got 3 different overlapping objects. That's how you manage your different objects and how you add shapes to your document."