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Safe area

Safe Area Guides allow you to see which areas of your Canvas will appear on a television screen.

Safe area Guide

  • The innermost rectangle area denotes the title-safe area.
  • The in between rectangle area denotes the action-safe area.
  • The outermost rectangle area denotes the invisible area.

Selecting a Safe Area Guide will automatically create it. The Guidelines panel will then allow you to change its settings:

Safe area panel

tip

The Eye, Magnet and Opacity functions have been covered in the previous, Overview section.

  • You can change the Color of this Guide by clicking on the small grey square. Your cursor will turn into a picker allowing you to select another color from the Color Panel or the software’s interface.
  • The Border In and Border Out settings allow you to set the Safe Area’s position. You can change those settings using the dedicated mini-sliders or numeric fields.
  • You can also use the Edit button to edit the position of each border directly on your Canvas.