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Naming and arranging objects

Naming and arranging objects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Naming and arranging objects

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to name specific objects, as well as arrange them, that is to say, change their stacking order directly inside the Layers panel. So, let's say I noticed that things are a little messed up where this bird's face is concerned. For example, this lower beak needs to be behind the upper beak, and so I'll go ahead and select it, and then go over to the Layers panel fly out menu, and choose Locate Object, and that's going to twirl open this face layer right here, and take me to this lower beak. Now, I happen to know it is the lower beak, and I want it to be named as such inside the panel, and I can do that just by expanding the width of the panel, like so, so that I can see the current name of this path, which is just path, that's a name that Illustrator assigned automatically, and so to rename it, just double-click on its name, and then I'll call this guy lower beak, and press the enter key, or return key on the MAC, and so presumably this is…

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