From the course: Illustrator 2021 Quick Start
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Organize your work using Layers - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Quick Start
Organize your work using Layers
- [Instructor] Once your design will start to become a more and more complex, it's important to introduce an appropriate structure to manage the graphic content. To do so, choose the Window menu at the top, then select layers. The layers panel will appear. Layers are containers that will allow you to organize your graphics, and will make sure that you can create and edit your design using a systematic and efficient workflow. There is not a particular rule in the layers number or structure, but it's extremely important to remember that the order of a layer stack will reflect the order in which you visualize your graphic elements because anything contained on a layer located on top of the stack will display in front of the rest of the elements. Each document contains at least one layer by default. I will start by renaming the first layer, by double clicking on it, and name it Background, then click on OK. For this…
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