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- [Voiceover] In this movie,

I'll show you how to expand



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the contents of a layer, which

is where things get really



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interesting where the layers

panel is concerned, and that's



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because all of the sudden you

have other means of object



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level control, you can lock

and unlock specific objects,



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you can hide and show them,

you can locate an object inside



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the layers panel, and you can

gain access to the contents



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of things like the compound

shapes that we saw in the



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previous chapter, so here I

am looking at this project



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from Deke's Techniques 207

about creating your own custom



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grumpy bird, and, let's say

I'm trying to select something



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inside this document and

I click right about here.



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Now, this is a pretty complex

illustration because it



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contains dynamic effects about

which we will learn more in a



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future chapter of this

very course but let's say I



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wanna lock this object down

so I don't accidentally select



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it in the future because,

notice, if I drag it, this



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rectangle somehow, these

rolling hills in the background,



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that is not something that I

have any desire to mess up.



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So, a long time option has been

to go up to the object menu,



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choose lock, and then choose

selection, or you have that



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keyboard shortcut control two,

or command two on the Mac.



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That's not a command I suggest

you use, or a shortcut you



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should assign to memory, because

there's a much better way



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to work these days, what you

wanna do now is, first, what



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layer you're working in is

the back layer here inside the



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layers panel, and by the way,

I'm gonna need some more room



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to work, so I'm gonna go ahead

and drag these panels right



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here, which contain the pathfinder

panel, and put them back



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in the icon column, and then,

I'll twirl open this layer and



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I'll go searching for this item,

and it's right there, I can



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tell that it's selected

because it has a little purple



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square right next to it, and

so if I wanna lock it, I'll



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just go ahead and click right

there, in a lock icon, and



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that will lock it down, of

course, I can unlock the object



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by clicking on that icon again.



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However, in my case, I definitely

wanna lock it down, and



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then I accidentally select

this, and I can see that it's



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this item right here, so I'll

go ahead and lock it down and



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so forth, another option is

to hide and show an object.



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So, let's say I click on this

thick boundary right here,



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it's part of the bird layer,

and so, just so I can see



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things a little better, I'm

gonna twirl this back layer



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closed by clicking on its

triangle, and then I'll twirl this



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bird layer open, or even

better, rather than searching up



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and down this stack, I'll

just go to the layers panel



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fly-out menu and I will choose

locate object, at which point



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Illustrator will automatically

twirl open that layer and



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show me the selected object

right there, and let's say what



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I want to do with it is hide

it, then I would just click on



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its eyeball in order to hide

it, or click again to show the



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object, now, let's say I go

ahead and turn off a bunch of



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eyeballs here, I want you to

know that there's a command to



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bring everything back, so, if

you go up to the object menu,



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you have the option of

choosing unlock all, which will



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unlock every single item

inside your illustration, or,



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in my case, what I want is

show all, which is gonna show



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every single object in

illustration, and it's gonna select



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them, too, so I know exactly

what objects I just got done



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revealing, alright, now I'm

gonna press control shift A, or



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command shift A on the Mac,

to de-select the object, and



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I'm gonna click right here

inside the bird, and I want you



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to notice up here on the far

left side of the control panel



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this is a compound shape

that contains a bunch of live



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sub-paths, just as we saw in

the previous chapter, well,



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one way to gain access to those

sub-paths so that I can edit



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the contents of this compound

shape, is to, of course,



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double click inside the

object in order to enter the



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isolation mode, and then I

can, for example, select this



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shape right here and drag it

around to modify the highlight



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on the edge of the bird, problem

is, I can't really see what



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I'm doing in this mode, I'm

not really getting a sense of



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what's happening here, and

that's because of the dimming



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that's occurring in the

background, so I'm gonna escape out



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of the isolation mode, press

control shift A, or command



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shift A on a Mac, in order

to de-select the object, and



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what I'll do is click, once

again, on this big compound



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shape, and I'll go to the layers

panel, click on the fly-out



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menu icon, and once again,

choose locate object, and that is



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going to not only find the

object right here inside this



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bird layer, but it's going

to expand it, as well.



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And so here we are, with

an expanded version of that



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compound shape, so I could go

ahead and twirl it closed, but



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if I want access to the

individual sub-paths I need to



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twirl it open like so, and then

notice these little circles



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in this right hand column, they

are formally known as target



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icons, internally inside Adobe,

they're known as meatballs.



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So, take your pick, what I'm

gonna do is click in this guy



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right there, the top one, to

target this sub-path right



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there, at which point I can

now modify its placement using



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the black arrow tool because

I took a moment to target it



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first here inside the layers

panel, then if I want to



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target this guy and see what

in the heck's going on with him



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I could click on this so-called

meatball and then I could



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drag this shape around, which

ends up affecting all three



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of his feathers, as you can

see inside the document window.



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And then, if ever you decide

you want to clean up your



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layers panel a little bit,

you can just click the down



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pointing triangle in front

of the layer name in order to



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twirl that layer closed, and

you can press control shift A



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or command shift A on a

Mac, in order to de-select



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everything, and that's how

you expand the contents of a



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layer to reveal every

single object on that layer,



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regardless of how buried or

small, here inside Illustrator.