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Copy and paste layers

Copy and paste layers

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Copy and paste layers

- [Instructor] You can move layers between documents as images. So they won't be the original vector content, but if you do need a layer from one document into another document, there is a way to do it. What you need to do, first of all, is make sure that all of the layers that you don't require to come across are actually made invisible. Now, that can be something of a job of work, it'd be really nice to have a way to do that, without having to do what I'm doing now. Which is essentially just double-tapping all of the layers I don't need. I just need the one that's highlighted at the moment. So as I turn these off, now it's not super, super difficult. It's not like going down into the cold, dark, earth and fetching that coal, but it is very much, a sort of a first world problem in that you've got to do all of these layers, but there you are. Once you've got it isolated to the layer you want to copy, you go to the Share arrow, which is at the top of the screen between the layers…

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