Illustrator CC: Visual QuickStart Guide (2014 release)

13. Layers

In This Chapter

Getting to know the Layers panel

Creating layers

Deleting layers and objects

Selecting listings on the Layers panel

Selecting objects via the Layers panel

Restacking layers and objects

Duplicating layers and objects

Locking layers and objects

Hiding layers and objects

Collecting objects into a new layer

Releasing objects to layers

Merging layers and groups

Flattening layers

Until this point (unless you snuck ahead to this chapter!), you’ve been creating objects on a single, default layer that was created automatically when you created your document, and each new path was stacked above the last one automatically. In ...