The Ungroup frames or masks
function allows you to split up
a group frame or a mask group frame into its component parts.
Incidentally, groups can also be defined hierarchically, so that a
group consists of two sub-group frames, for instance, which in turn
may each contain three normal frames. When splitting up this group it
will not dissolve into six individual frames, but into two group
frames again.
You use this function if you wish to split up a group or mask group into its constituent sub-frames. First, select a group frame, then click on this icon. This will split up the group frames again into the same individual frames from which the group was formed, even in cases where the group is made up of group frames in turn. So to split up sub-groups, you will have to first dissolve the total group and only then can you turn your attention to the sub-groups.
If the group to be split up was a mask group, the individual elements of the mask group can now be altered directly once again. The masking has made no changes to the contents of objects.
If you have rotated or mirrored the mask group in the meantime, the individual components will now also be rotated or mirrored respectively. If you want to restore the objects to their original state, you have to reverse the transformation before splitting up the group.
