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Real World Adobe® Illustrator® CS2
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Real World Adobe® Illustrator® CS2

by Mordy Golding
November 2005
Beginner to intermediate
568 pages
14h 4m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 3. Objects, Groups, and Layers

Some people have clean, organized desks, whereas others have desks that are quite messy. Likewise, some designers organize their Illustrator files using groups and layers, while many do not. And just as there are benefits to keeping an orderly desk, there are advantages to using groups and layers for adding structure to your files. In Adobe Illustrator CS2, groups and layers not only offer a convenient way to manage objects in a file (as they did in earlier versions of Illustrator), but now they can also control the appearance of your file. For example, applying a drop shadow to several objects that are grouped looks different than a drop shadow that is applied to those very same objects if they aren’t grouped. ...

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