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Layer Order

1:38 with Ashley Burke

Setting your layers to the correct order is vital for your project layout.

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    So now we are going to create the eraser.

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    And for the eraser, I wanna keep these rounded edges a little bit,

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    so maybe it's just gently used.

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    [LAUGH] So we'll go to the Rectangle Tool and choose Rounded Rectangle.

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    If you want to change the rounding of these edges you can hit the up and

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    down arrows and that will increase and decrease the angle.

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    I'm gonna change it to red.

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    And so, now the layer order does matter and

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    this red shape is on top of these other layers.

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    And looking over on my layers panel, I can see things got a little disorganized, so

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    I'm gonna select these parts of the pencil and

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    move them into the correct layer, okay.

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    And this red shape, it's the eraser, you want that to be at the very bottom.

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    And this metal shape here, I'm going to my selection tool

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    this should be at the top and I can drag this on top there are s shortcut keys.

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    So command open bracket will

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    move it down and command close bracket will brig it up,

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    you can see it moving over here on the layers panel.

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    And in real time.

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    Great. I'll make this a little smaller.

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    And this needs to be, there we go.

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    Let's see.

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    Yeah.

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    I think that's looking very nice.

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