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Adjusting the stacking order

Adjusting the stacking order - Illustrator Tutorial

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Adjusting the stacking order

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- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll talk about stacking order. Which is, quite simply, the order in which individual objects and entire layers are stacked from the back of your illustration all the way to the front. So, let's say my text layer is selected, which is currently at the top of the stack. And I decide to switch to the Blob Brush. Which, if you went ahead and customized your shortcuts along with me back in chapter 11 of the Fundamentals Course, has a short cut of B for brush. All right, so I've made my cursor pretty big by pressing the right bracket key a few times. And now let's say I just decide to paint a random brushstroke, and it appears in black. All right, now I'm gonna switch to a different color. Let's say this shade of green right here, doesn't really matter. Press the Enter key, and then I'll paint a new brushstroke. And notice the new one appears in front of the old one. So every time you draw something in Illustrator it's appearing at the top of the stack. But…

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