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Introduction
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The visibility controls are part of *view layers*, designed to help organizing
what you want to see or work on.

.. figure:: /images/scene-layout_view-layers_introduction_collections.png

   View layers and collections.

View layers reference to :doc:`collections </scene_layout/collections/introduction>`,
and allow to set their visibility, selectability and other options.
A *view layer* can have any collection enabled, and multiple *view layers*
can use the same or different collections.

.. seealso::

   Each view layer can be rendered separately as individual :doc:`Render Layers </render/layers/layers>`
   to help composite your scene.


Outliner
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You can edit the current *view layer* collections in the :doc:`Outliner </editors/outliner>`.

.. figure:: /images/scene-layout_view-layers_introduction_outliner.png

   View layer and collections in the Outliner.

There you can enable and disable collections, hide them temporarily, globally, among other options.

.. seealso::

   Read more about :ref:`Collections in the Outliner <editors-outliner-collections>`.