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Using Isolation Mode

Using Isolation Mode - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using Isolation Mode

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- [Instructor] Isolation mode is another tool that we have to use to work with groups. And I'm sure I'm not alone in the fact that I use this all the time. I'm pretty sure the majority of Illustrator users do. So I have this large group here, which contains some other groups. And I'm going to double-click on it. And you can tell when you're in Isolation mode immediately because everything else outside of the group becomes dimmed. You also get what's known as the breadcrumb trail bar at the top of the screen. So you can see here that I'm on the layer Boat when I'm actually in the group boat. Now, that group contains a couple of other things. Okay, so there's another group here for the mast and the sail. There's another group here of the roof and the cabin group. And then there's the gunwale here and the hull. Okay, we're going to double-click on the cabin group and now you can see in the breadcrumb trail, I'm in that…

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