From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
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Moving objects between layers - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
Moving objects between layers
But let me jump back to this project where we have a website designed or at least the first fold of a website designed in Illustrator so we can see that here the text objects are on a separate layer, the additional illustrative details are on the objects layer and then we also have a background layer which we can also toggle on and off to see quickly what's placed in there. Now whenever we open these layers we can see that everything else inside them is also nicely organized and what I wanted to show you here is how you can move items from one layer to another or even combine layers together so if I select maybe this let's dance with us text let's say I decided that I want to put this on a separate layer on top of everything else so the way I could do this is to first create a new layer with this icon here at the bottom we can do that and I'm just going to call it main title and then if I wanted to move this in that new layer all I have to do is to drag and drop it in there. if I open…
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