Lec 38 _Graphic Designing complete course__ Mentor Rafay Anwar __ #digitalmarketing #mrskills

G-trainees, today's topic is Adobe Illustrator, Layers menu and Arrange option. With the help of Layers menu, we can arrange and rearrange our objects and shapes. Similarly, with the help of Arrange option, we can place our multiple object shapes on the front or back. Let's explore this further and see what can be done with this option. G-trainees, I have opened a file. First of all, we will figure out where we get the Layers menu options from. If I go to Window, I get the Layers menu options if I press F7. Other than this, if I click on the icon on the right side of the options panel, I get the Layers menu options. Again, if you click on the three lines, you get the advanced options. Other than this, another tip is that we can rearrange the Layers menus. We can rearrange these panels and place them anywhere. If I need more space, I can expand and hide it. For now, let's leave it as it is. I will open the Layers menu. If I want to drag it here, I can drag it here as well. It's up to us. I am expanding it a little bit so that we can see it if we have more layers. First of all, we have the information that is by default, that is Layer 1. We have it. I will treat this Layer 1 as a background. I will add something as a background to it. Let's color it light. Now, I want to label this as BG, as a background. Further, I want to add a new layer. What I will do is, I can click on this and add a new layer. Now, at the bottom, we have this plus sign. When I create a new layer, a new layer will be created on top of it. Now, I will draw something on this layer. Let's change its color. Let's keep it away. Let's rotate it. Similarly, if I press it again, I can create a new layer. I will copy this layer. I will select it. I will select Layer 3 and press CTRL-V. Let's change its color. Now, we have two layers. You can label them as you wish. Now, you can see that this is a group of layers. If I drop it, we can see the image of all the objects that we are creating. For example, I will add one more layer. You can see that it has been added. This is called a sub-layer menu. If I click on the main menu, you can see that you have the option to create a new sub-layer. You can do it from here as well. First, you can add this. Then, you can add something to it. I will copy it. I will select it. If I press CTRL-SHIFT-V, it will be pasted on the exact place. You can't see it because it is the same color. Let's change its color. Now, you can see this. Now, we have seen that we have created sub-layers and this is a group layer. Let's try to rearrange it further. Let's say I press this layer and I want to change its order. Now, you can see that the blue diamond-like shape is in the upper layer. If I drag it further down, it will come down. If I drag it further down, the order is basically changing. If we drag layer 4 from this sub-layer and try to place it in layer 2, you can see that I can make it a sub-layer as well. If I create a sub-layer further, we can make another sub-layer of this sub-layer as well. It depends on how complicated you want to make your process and how complicated your information and objects are. Other than this, we have seen how to change the order of layers. Other than this, you can see that we have this eye icon. If I turn it on and off, I can hide it. These are different columns. We always miss the second column. If I press it, I can lock my layer. Now, you can see that I am trying to select it but it is not getting selected. If I lock all the layers, you can see the cross icon. Now, I cannot select anything. This happens when you are working in different layers. Your behind layers move or upper layers move. It is a good practice to lock them. But, when you lock them, they cannot be selected. Now, I am selecting BG. I can select it. Now, I cannot select this because it is locked. We have another option. It is labeled. The colors of the layers are labeled. After this, we have a target icon. If I click it, it will select all the layers in this layer. Similarly, if I select all the layers in a different sub-layer, it will select them. Now, we lock BG and select the upper layers. Now, we have seen what we can do with layers. One thing I have missed is that we can delete it. You can always delete this. After selecting, you can delete it. We even try to delete it in sub-layers. Now, what I want to do is... We have seen how to order layers and what are the further options. Apart from this, if I want to arrange objects or shapes, how can I do that? We go to object and we have a second option. In this, you can see bring to front, bring forward, send backward, send to back and send to current layer. We get these options. But now, if I select send backward, you can see that it will go to back in that layer. Apart from this, if I select the last layer and press CTRL-SHIFT and right bracket, you can see that it is in the upper layer from down. If I press CTRL-SHIFT and left bracket, it will go down in this order. You can see that it is changing in sub-menu. It is not jumping layers. This object or shape is not jumping layers. It is in the same layer and changing its order. Similarly, if I don't press CTRL-SHIFT and right bracket, you can see that its order is changing. It is in the front. If I press left bracket, it will go down and go to the back. Let's try this too. If I press CTRL-SHIFT, you can see that it is not jumping layers. So, this is how we can arrange shapes and objects. I have missed one more thing. Let me tell you that too. If I double-click on my icon, we have more layer options. I can rename it if I want. You can see that we can color it also. It will be easy for us. If I press OK, you can see that the color has changed. When you are dealing with multiple layers, you can also color code them. If the background layer is blue, the upper layers are orange, and the mid-layers are green, you get a visual cue color-wise. Similarly, if I press ALT on the layer icon, we get this option. You can also do it from here. So, trainees, I hope you have learned how to create and rearrange layers, how to create sub-layers and rearrange them. We have the option of Arrange. We can take our shapes and objects to the front and back and set their order accordingly. I hope you have learned and will explore it further. See you in the next video.