lost my layers - what did I do wrong?

[ms*mountaineer]

I have been working on a couple of different layouts. There is one of them - when I open it back up to work on it, it is not showing me all the different objects in the layout (3 pictures, background paper, text, etc...) - it's only showing one object in the stack, which is the complete layout. I can't move any of the items around.

What did I do to get it this way? And, more importantly, can I undo it? I expected something like this to happen if I "flattened" it - which I didn't do.

There are other pages I have been working on that are just the way I left them - separate objects that I can still move and play with. I just don't know what happened to this one page.

[Tina]

under your tool bar you should see something that says "stack" and "files", click that and your layers will come back.

[ms*mountaineer]

when I bring up the STACK and FILES - under stack, it has one object, the entire layout and it calls it the "top object". Beside it there is a tiny picture of a lock. I was able to find unlock and the lock goes away - but I still only have one object - the entire layout.

[Vallie]

Did it inadvertantly get saved as a jpeg instead of the programs format maybe? Just a thought.

[happybeingamom]

Did it inadvertantly get saved as a jpeg instead of the programs format maybe? Just a thought.

I agree this is most probably what happened

[ms*mountaineer]

I thought you might have hit on it - but no, the layout is still .png

[happybeingamom]

Check to see that is a png plus file not just a png. The png plus file is the one that saves the layers.

You can check it out by click on save as.

[Tina]

ooops, I misunderstood the question.

Yes, my next suggestions was the png vs. the png plus (both save as .png, but only the picture it png plus will save the layers).

[ms*mountaineer]

that's the problem! It didn't get saved as png plus - not sure how it happened, but I'll be sure to keep an eye on that from now on. Thanks!