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Changing the stacking order

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Changing the stacking order

- [Instructor] By default, when you draw new things or create new things in Illustrator, they normally jump to the front of their layer. And that's called the stacking order, and the stacking order is hierarchical, so objects stack within their own layer, and layers stack on their own. We'll cover layers in this chapter a bit later on. But here, just for example, I have this shadow for my plane just here, which I'm going to make slightly smaller. And of course, the shadow from this plane would fall onto the earth underneath the plane. So I need to change the stacking order. Now, I can do that quite quickly by right clicking and choosing a range, and you can see there that I can bring it forward or to the front or send it backward or to the back, and there are also keyboard shortcuts for those. So I'm going to go ahead and use one of those, that shift command, shift + control and left bracket. That's bracket, not the…

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