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Color Coding Layers

Color coding layers is a pretty quick and effective way to separate one type of layer from another. Suppose that you have ten layers that contain

brushed shadows and eight layers that contain furniture pieces in a darkened room. Knowing which layer is a shadow and which layer contains a sofa could take a few minutes to figure out. But, if you color code all the shadow layers blue, they’re easy to pick out.

To color code a layer:

Select the layer that you want to color code in the Layers palette.





Right-click/Control+click and choose Layer Properties from the context-sensitive menu or choose Layer Properties from the palette menu.

The Layer Properties dialog box shown in Figure 15-3 appears.




Figure 15-3: Use the Color drop-down list in the Layer Properties dialog box to color code the selected layer.






Use the Color drop-down list to select the color that you want to use.





Click OK.

The layer in the Layers palette changes to that color.