# Drawing

The Drawing tab appears in the Properties window when you select a drawing element.

The Drawing tab displays the properties of the drawing element you have selected. You can also change some of the properties of the element in the Drawing tab.

- Name: element name.
- Type: layering position of the element.

- Normal: follows the layout (composition) order of the Timeline or the front/back position in the Offset field.
- Foreground: forces the element to appear in front, despite changes to the layering order or dynamic changes to elements in the Sceneplanning Views.

If you have more than one element set as Foreground, the composition of these elements will be based on their layering order in the Timeline.

- Background: forces the element to appear in the back, despite changes to the layering order or dynamic changes to elements in Sceneplanning Views.

If you have more than one element set as Background, the composition of these elements will be based on their layering order in the Timeline.

- *Rotation: rotation of the element.
- Start: first frame that the element appears in.
- Duration: length of the element.
- *Offset: NS, EW and FB position of the element. If you attach a drawing element to a peg, the offset of the drawing element will be relative to the position of the peg.
- *Rotation Pivot: the NS and EW position of the point on which the element rotates.
- *Scale Pivot: the NS and EW position of the point on which the element is scaled.
- *Scale: the horizontal and vertical scale of the element.
- Keep Proportions: forces the horizontal scale value to be the same as the vertical value.

* You can manually type values in these fields to change the properties of an element.

See Also
Basic Sceneplanning Concepts
Scaling Elements
Rotating Elements