- [Voiceover] In this movie,
I'll show you how to name specific objects,
as well as arrange them,
that is to say,
change their stacking order directly inside
the Layers panel.
So, let's say I noticed that things are a little messed up
where this bird's face is concerned.
For example, this lower beak needs to be behind
the upper beak,
and so I'll go ahead and select it,
and then go over to the Layers panel fly out menu,
and choose Locate Object,
and that's going to twirl open this face layer right here,
and take me to this lower beak.
Now, I happen to know it is the lower beak,
and I want it to be named as such inside the panel,
and I can do that just by expanding the width of the panel,
like so, so that I can see the current name of this path,
which is just path,
that's a name that Illustrator assigned automatically,
and so to rename it,
just double-click on its name,
and then I'll call this guy lower beak,
and press the enter key,
or return key on the MAC,
and so presumably this is the upper beak.
Another way to name it is to double-click on an
empty portion of the layer,
in order to bring up this Options dialogue box here,
which has Show and Lock check boxes,
as well as a Name field,
into which, I will enter upper beak,
and click okay,
and now, if I don't like the layer order,
as opposed to memorizing those keyboard shortcuts,
that I showed you a couple of movies ago,
you can just grab one of these guys,
and drag it and drop it below the other one, like so.
So, again, working inside this panel can be
really super useful.
Now, let's say I don't know what this path is.
I could turn it off,
and I'll see it disappear,
I'll see the left eyebrow disappear,
and so when I turn it back on,
I can go ahead and name this guy left brow,
and presumably then,
this guy is the right brow,
and so you can go as nuts as you want,
and this is the kinda stuff you might do if
you're just really fussy,
and you just want to really take care
with your illustration,
or if there's specific key objects inside of it,
and you're handing off the document to a coworker,
then this could be very useful to them.
All right, now these guys,
I'm not sure what they are,
but I know the eyebrow should not be in front of the eyes,
so you know what I'm gonna do,
I'm just gonna take these two guys right there,
and click on one,
shift-click on the other,
and then just make sure I can see up to the top
of the layer,
and just drag these guys and drop them into place, like so,
and I now have the bird looking the way it should
with all of the face elements in place,
at which point,
I'll just go ahead and twirl close the face layer,
and then press control + shift + A,
or command + shift + A on the MAC,
in order to deselect my artwork,
and that, briefly stated,
is how you name and arrange,
that is to say,
change the stacking order of specific objects
directly inside the Layers panel.