10. Organizing Your Artwork with Layers

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Work with the Layers panel.

  • Create, rearrange, and lock layers and sublayers.

  • Name content.

  • Locate objects in the Layers panel.

  • Move objects between layers.

  • Copy and paste objects and their layers from one file to another.

  • Make a layer clipping mask.

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This lesson will take about 45 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book at adobepress.com/IllustratorCIB2023. For more information, see “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the Getting Started section ...

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