Adobe® Illustrator® CS6 Classroom in a Book®: The official training workbook from Adobe Systems

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 and sublayers.

• Move objects between layers.

• Locate objects in the Layers panel.

• Copy and paste objects and their layers from one file to 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 takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson08 folder onto ...