Hi there and welcome to Layer's in Adobe Illustrator.
We are going to go from a one layer file or project to several layers and we are going to group them
according to layers and organize our works and see why layers are useful.
By the way, guys, everything we do about players and groups is about organizing your work.
It's not mandatory.
It can be as much as you want as long as the project or the file of outlook is for you.
But when you start wanting to amend it after some time, you really don't want to come to one single
player that has a million object inside it.
And you don't know what's happening.
You want to be organized and it's really very important.
What are layers, layers are everything, any object, a group of objects has to be in a layer.
You can't have anything outside the layer when you create a new document if you take five.
A new movie, take anything, it doesn't matter.
If you create and you come to layer's, there is always layer one in this case is empty.
And of course it is unlocked.
You can lock it, you can unlock it.
If you like it, you can draw in it.
You need another layer.
If you unlock it, you can do something inside.
So now we have an object inside the layer.
You cannot have anything outside a layer.
Let's get rid of this.
In the previous tutorial we have seen about the groups, we grouped our work, let's see a bit about
layers.
First of all, you can double click on the layer icon, OK, to represent the artwork.
And you have layer options here.
And we know that you can change the color to whatever you like.
That's the gold, you can make it as a template.
We have seen this some times, but for now we are Lockette.
We can lock it so we don't touch it.
You can also design this is for free and this is for sure.
Stories like this and condemned the image.
Simple tricks.
Not much, but also, most importantly, you can give it the name, say my what as simple as this.
And that is pretty important.
You can also come over here and double click on the words and change the name.
You just write something else.
And just press enter and you have changed me now on the bottom here, you can see you can create a new
layer, you can create a sub layer.
So it depends on the level of organization that you want to do for our work.
You don't want to create a new layer.
So I created a layer two.
That's very fun.
I'm going to select the butterfly and notice how there is a small square here in the color of the layer,
and that means you selected something inside this layer down.
And it says you selected the butterfly.
I would like the flight to be on the top player here.
I was selected, not this this is the selection.
I can click and drag and drop it there.
That's one way to do it.
I'm going to do what I like most is to come over here.
Let's say this there is close.
You selected the butterfly.
You know, that's your selection.
Then you come over and click on the small square here and take it to the other layer.
No matter what's happened, it has moved everything to another level.
This is more trick I love, but nevertheless, you could have selected the group from here and click
and drag and just drop it in the layer, not drop it inside this group.
Drop it on the left.
I have two groups inside layer two, and there two is on top of this layer, my work, something I'm
going to rename the layer a click on it and say butterflies.
Collaborator.
So now I have butterflies and inside, that is the first group, as you can see, and the second group.
If I decide that I want every butterfly in L.A., I could do that, OK?
It's not necessary here.
Just show you.
You can create another layer.
I'm going to create another layer by layer three, declare free and drop it in the layer butterflies.
So you're not just now layer three, which is empty, is inside the layer butterflies.
I can take the group here, select the group here and just click on it and drag it and put it in layer
three.
Of course.
Now I have a layer and inside it there is a group, very good organization.
Actually, I recommend that you do that, but most of the time we skip that.
I don't want any more butterfly one inside the lair.
I just wanted as a group, I'm going to click and drag and drop it in the main layer, come over, select
there are three.
So this is selecting layer three and I want to delete his gun.
Not worse is come to my work something layer and create a sub layer.
But others have made the mistake.
I did not really select this layer.
My work something I selected the top layer I'm going to do and this is selection.
OK guys.
And then create a supplier.
Going to take Munster and put it in the sublevel, so now I have a ladder, I have another supplier
here and I'm going to call this their monster.
Now, I changed my mind.
I don't want Monster to be inside my work, something I can click on it and I can put it on top.
Now, if you put it here, it will be inside this layer here, inside this group.
It doesn't go inside the group.
It's going to become a subletter.
One way to do it is to go up, up.
Notice how it has appeared.
There is a thicker line here and now we have a layer called monster.
Of course, I can reorder them the way I would like put Monster on the butterfly or something like this.
Now, waves and clouds, that's not bad.
Backgrounds, backgrounds.
Most of the time we want to put them in a different layer and lock it.
So that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to create a new layer, select the background from here and drop it into layer four.
That's a new layer declared for drop it at the bottom.
It's very easy, Double-Click here and see background.
Now, if you have a air that has several objects, in our case, this layer has to two butterfly groups.
If I click on the butterfly, I will not select the whole layer.
I will select the group.
That's the way it works, so if you have groups, it will select the groups.
If I select the monster, which is in a layer on its own.
Now, this is selective.
This is not selected zigi guys, this will be selected double circle.
This is selected as simple as this just for your attention.
It might seem complicated, but actually it's very easy.
Now, of course, if you want to edit the eyes, you double click, you double click again.
You are in isolation mode for the group.
So actually, these are our players, and I really love it if you organize your work from time to time
or don't wait until the end, things might get very complicated.
It's better that you organize as you go.
Now, since we are going to work with players and groups and, you know, groups, certain things create
new layers.
I wanted to show you how to work with groups and leaders.
Next up, your assignment.