From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

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Setting up a workspace that makes sense

Setting up a workspace that makes sense - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

Setting up a workspace that makes sense

Throughout this entire video training title, you've seen how important both the Appearance panel and the Layers panel are. Yet, if you take a look at Adobe's Essentials workspace, which is basically the default setting when you open up Illustrator, you can see that both of those panels-- the Appearance panel here and the Layers panel--are kind of buried closely towards the bottom of the screen. In fact, when you expand this, they're barely visible at all. Appearance and Layers are both collapsed. Now, we've also seen how we could use both the Appearance and the Graphic Styles panel side by side. Yet, the way that they're currently set up now inside of the Essentials workspace, even if I have the Appearance panel visible, I can never see the Appearance panel and the Graphic Styles panel simultaneously. I would have the like click on a graphic style and then switch back to the Appearance panel to view its settings. Now, we've also seen that the Appearance panel itself is extremely…

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