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Introducing the Layers panel

Introducing the Layers panel - Illustrator Tutorial

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Introducing the Layers panel

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you a few ways to organize your artwork from the Layers panel. And the idea is that with just a little bit of work a document can become very complex indeed and the Layers panel can help out. And while this might sound like a dry topic there is an amazing amount of stuff you can do in the Layers panel. In fact it may be the most powerful Layers panel there is. All right, so to switch to that panel just go ahead and click on the Layers tab up here in the top right region of the screen at which point you'll see that I really haven't done anything, I just have this one layer called Layer 1 which is the default layer that occurs inside any new illustrator document. Now notice that it has a thumbnail but it's a really super tiny thumbnail. If you want to make yours larger so you can really see what's going on then click on the flyout menu icon in the top right corner of the panel and…

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