From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Expanding the contents of a layer

Expanding the contents of a layer - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Expanding the contents of a layer

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to expand the contents of a layer, which is where things get really interesting where the layers panel is concerned, and that's because all of the sudden you have other means of object level control, you can lock and unlock specific objects, you can hide and show them, you can locate an object inside the layers panel, and you can gain access to the contents of things like the compound shapes that we saw in the previous chapter, so here I am looking at this project from Deke's Techniques 207 about creating your own custom grumpy bird, and, let's say I'm trying to select something inside this document and I click right about here. Now, this is a pretty complex illustration because it contains dynamic effects about which we will learn more in a future chapter of this very course but let's say I wanna lock this object down so I don't accidentally select it in the future because, notice, if I drag it, this rectangle somehow, these rolling…

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