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Lock, isolate, and preview a layer

Lock, isolate, and preview a layer - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Lock, isolate, and preview a layer

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- In this movie we'll take a look at ways you can lock, isolate and preview independent layers. And by preview, I mean that you can see some layers in the Outline Mode and others in the Preview Mode. Here's how it works, we'll start with lock because it's the simplest to understand. Let's say I want to lock this back layer so that I can marquee with a little more flexibility in the document window, then I would just go ahead and click in the second column, next to the eye and I'll get a little lock, as you can see, and now, if I marquee this area I end up selecting the text without moving the purple background. You can also lock all other layers, by the way, and that works by first unlocking this guy by clicking on the lock and then I would Alt + Click, or Option + Click on the Mac, inside of the second column and that locks everybody but the back layer, as you can see if I just go ahead and drag around to move the big purple rectangle. I'll go ahead and undo that move, of course…

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