9. 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.

Move objects between layers.

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

Merge layers into a single layer.

Locate objects in the Layers panel.

Isolate content in a layer.

Make a layer clipping mask.

Apply an appearance attribute to objects and layers.

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This lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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