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Why do we need layers - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
Why do we need layers
Working with layers is crucial in all Adobe applications and Illustrator is no exception. To find the layers panel you can just go here on the right side. You can also find this also from the window menu of course. So here's a list of all the panels, there's layers right there. Now Illustrator handles layers slightly differently to Photoshop. If you're accustomed to working with layers there you might find some differences here. It's a bit more similar to using layers in InDesign so these two applications Illustrator and InDesign share a couple of common behaviors so if you learn to work with layers in one of these applications you will be familiar with it already in the other one. I have a couple of files open here I have a website design and also we have a logo and we have an illustration. Now while I was flicking through these documents if you kept a close look at the layers panel you probably noticed that some of these documents already have multiple layers like these first two…
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