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Changing the stacking order - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Changing the stacking order
- [Instructor] Like many other programs, Illustrator has a concept of something called a z-axis, although you never need to concern yourself too much with that term. What the z-axis actually is is the space between you and the distance. So in this particular environment, it is completely theoretical. It's mainly the x and y-axis that we're concerned with, where something is across and where it is down. But the z-axis does apply here because of the stacking order of things. You can see at the moment this handle that I'm dragging around is actually on top of the cup itself, but below the actual strokes that add the illusion of contour. And I can bring things to the front, to the back, and incrementally step them backwards and forwards using the arrange commands. So if I right-click here, you'll see the Arrange menu, which normally lives inside the Object menu, gives me these choices. So bring something right to…
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