# Use sidebars

The Comic Life window has sidebars on the right, left and bottom that contain controls for modifying your document, its settings, and more.

- Image browsers: Shows your photo library from which you'll drag and drop photos to make your comic. Shapes provides a palette of simple shapes to enhance your content. Stamps provides a palette of comic style bitmap clip art. It appears on the right side of the Comic Life window.
- Format controls: Shows formatting options for whatever is selected in the document at a given time, like text, a shape, or a chart. It appears on the right side of the Comic Life window. If you are editing a script, you see the Script controls. If nothing is selected in a comic layout document, you see the Page controls.
- Document controls: Shows controls and options for setting page orientation, page size, and margins; and setting the resolution for image processing. It appears on the right side of the Comic Life window.
- Page thumbnails: Shows thumbnails of all the pages in your document. In this view, you can rearrange pages and navigate to a particular page by clicking its thumbnail. It appears on the left side of the Comic Life window.
- Element Well: Provides a palette of comic element types from which you can drag and drop to add balloons, captions, lettering and more. It appears at the bottom of the Comic Life window.

Open and close sidebars

- Right sidebar: Click Images, Format or Document in the toolbar to open the sidebar and show the controls. To close the sidebar, click the button of the active sidebar to close it. For example, if the formatting controls are visible, click Format to close the sidebar completely. You can also choose View > Hide Inspector (from the View menu at the top of your screen) or from the View button in the toolbar.
- Left sidebar: Click the View button in the toolbar, then choose Page Thumbnails.
- Bottom sidebar: Click the View button in the toolbar, then choose Element Well.

## See also

Quick navigation

Set paper size and orientation