Layers

The Layers tab controls how layers behave when drawing, editing, importing, duplicating, and exporting content in Sketch.

1. Pixel Fitting rounds layers to the nearest whole pixel and ensures they don’t sit on fractional pixels when you draw, move, or resize them.
2. When Distributing determines what happens when layers can’t be distributed to full pixels.
3. New Text Styles gives you the option to include text alignment and color as part of the style in new Text Styles.
4. New Layer Styles gives you the option to include corner radius values when you create a Layer Style. This option is on by default.
5. Importing gives you the option to scale down images to fit inside frames and import PDFs as vector paths.
6. Frame Export gives you the option to choose how frames are ordered when exporting them as a PDF.
7. Drawing Layers locks the proportions of new layers when you hold ⇧ while drawing.
8. Editing Shapes determines whether clicking on the first or last end point closes an open path.
9. Duplicating offsets duplicated layers by 10px, and automatically renames them to keep layer names unique.
10. Flatten Bitmaps sets the resolution for flattened bitmap images.