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Assigning an effect to an entire layer

Assigning an effect to an entire layer - Illustrator Tutorial

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Assigning an effect to an entire layer

Over the course in the next few exercises we're going to transform our snowflake so far, which I'm calling Kings with crowns.ai, into this beveled effect here, in which we're building up a bunch of different stroke effects and I've gone ahead and rotated the entire snowflake about 15 degrees. Now if I set in applying the strokes to the group as it is so far, then we're going to run into problems, because basically because we have all these dynamic effects piled on top of each other they respond to everything we do and the simple act of adding a stroke actually shoves the path outline outward a little bit and messes up our alignment. And we're going to see some other dynamic effects along the way as well. So I'll switch back to our illustration at hand. And I'm going to select that group by just kind of generally marqueeing in this area of the screen with my Black Arrow tool, and that goes ahead and selects all the paths inside the group. And we can see that the group is selected here…

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