9 Organizing your Artwork with Layers

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Layers let you organize your work into distinct levels that can be edited and viewed individually or together. Every Adobe Illustrator CC document has at least one layer. Creating multiple layers in your artwork lets you easily control how artwork is printed, displayed, selected, and edited.

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.

  • Merge layers into a single layer.

  • Locate objects in the Layers panel.

  • Isolate content in a layer.

  • Copy and paste objects and their layers from ...

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