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Selections

Selections

We already covered selecting objects in previous topics but now we will be spending more time on discussing all the various ways that you can work with selections and first of all I wanted to mention something that we haven't covered before the little circle next to the object in the layers panel is the targeting feature and there is a useful technique that you might want to utilize sometimes if you have an object like this one here which uses a unique appearance so it has a blend mode in this case called overlay applied on it if I want that to be used somewhere else maybe on this astronaut I can select that little circle and drag it over this other object and when I let go notice how it's moved from the currently selected shape onto the other one so it's a way to remove that special appearance from one object and move it on another one so that is just a technique that not many people know and it's not often that you need this but it's worth mentioning so you can drag the appearance…

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