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Using layers for substitutions

Using layers for substitutions - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using layers for substitutions

- (Teacher) Here's an old but handy trick you can use in Illustrator when you're working with In Designer that saves you having several different versions of a file. And it's even relevant today in the world of CC libraries because you have to have different assets. This is one file with the assets I need in it. So what I've got here is three different versions of a graphic, and if I turn their layers off for a second and just restore the topmost one, this is a full color version of the graphic, maybe for a magazine or many other different intents. And then underneath that, I've got a Grayscale version of the graphic, which might be for newsprint or some other low color form, and I've got a black only version as well, just one ink, one solidity there, like so. So what I'm going to do is swap out to In Design, where I've got this glorious layout that I made and took me hours, or more likely 20 seconds (laughs). And what I'm going to do is place the graphic into it. So I'm going to use…

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