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Practice using layers - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
Practice using layers
Now I would like you to practice a little bit with me the things that we talked about already and we will be using this file where the task is to organize this illustration a little bit more to make it easier to move things around. So the way I'd like to organize a scene like this is to have a foreground, mid-ground and background. So again we will have three layers so in this case what would make sense first is to separate the background. I'm going to select the sky and I'm going to select the clouds so I'm holding down the shift key with the selection tool and I selected these two then maybe these silhouettes here can also be added to the background and this is actually the bottom three objects. So now that we have these selected we could just press command the control G to quickly group them together. I'm going to rename this group by double clicking on it and I will call it background and maybe just write sky. But right now this is still sitting inside the original layer and…
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