Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 8. Working 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, nested layers, and groups.

• Move objects between layers.

• Paste layers of objects from one file into another.

• Merge layers into a single layer.

• Apply a drop shadow to a layer.

• Make a layer clipping mask.

• Apply an appearance attribute to objects and layers.

• Isolate content in a layer.

This lesson will take approximately 45 minutes to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson08 folder onto it.

Layers let you organize your work into distinct levels ...