From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

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Understanding attribute stacking order

Understanding attribute stacking order - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

Understanding attribute stacking order

So we know that we control the presentation of our artwork by changing our artwork's appearance, and the way that we are going to be doing that is by using the Appearance panel. Now, you can see that right now I have a document opened. It's called appearance.ai. And if you look in the upper right-hand corner, you can see that I am currently set to the Essentials workspace. Now in this workspace, the Appearance panel--yes, the all-important Appearance panel--is kind of buried over here at the bottom. I am actually going to drag this by its tab and bring it out right on to the screen here, because in the next couple of videos--in fact, probably for the remainder of this course--we are going to be focusing a lot on this Appearance panel. Towards the end of this course, I am actually going to take you through creating your own customized workspace, where we can add more prominence to the Appearance panel. But for now, let's take a quick look at the Appearance panel itself. You can see…

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