Working with appearance attributes


    The Appearance palette is the gateway to working with appearance attributes, including graphic styles and effects. Because you can apply appearance attributes to layers, groups, and objects--and often to fills and strokes too--the hierarchy of attributes in your artwork can become very complex. For example, if you apply one effect to an entire layer and another effect to an object in the layer, it may be difficult to determine which effect is causing the artwork to change. The Appearance palette shows you the fills, strokes, graphic styles, and effects that have been applied to an object, group, or layer.

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