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Illustrator artwork can get quite complicated as far as your workflow and in my particular case, I like to work with a lot of different layers. I'll go ahead and tear that off and show you that to create this mask, I have all kinds of layers and I have different things on different layers so I can lock them, hide them, show them and just focus on what I need to. But sometimes I want to quickly make a change, like resizing something, changing the color of something and so on. That's where Isolation Mode comes in handy. So what I'm going to do is show you how I would do it before Isolation Mode. So let's say I wanted to change the color of this visor here. Well, what I would do is, of course, lock the layers so I don't mess with anything that I don't want to manipulate, find the visor, unlock that layer and then I would select it and rotate or whatever it is that I wanted to do. If I wanted to change the color of it I would do so and then lock that layer again, choose a different thing to work on, such as the optical eye and then change the parameters of that. Well, the cool thing is there is something called Isolation Mode that allows me to work with everything whenever I want to. The only thing is, of course, you have to have the layers unlocked. So let me go ahead and lock everything and show you what happens if I try to double click on this to enter Isolation Mode; I can't. So I'm going to unlock the layers and then I'm going to go ahead and just hide this for now and I'll double click on the visor this time. The rest of the document ghosts out and, let me move this out of the way, I'm in Isolation Mode. To get back to my document, I have to click on this arrow. So I click on it once, again and I'm out of Isolation Mode. Well, now let me show you exactly why it's useful and I'll bring back my layers to show you. Once again, I'm going to double click on this visor and even in the Layers Panel, everything else ghosts out and goes away; except for what I'm working with. So now that I have the visor selected, I can change the color of it if I want to. So I'll give it this gradient or I can give it something cool like that, which is kind of weird, a fish pattern for a superhero. I think I'll go with that. Why not? And I can change things like the scale of it, so I can resize it or rotate it or if I want to I can go ahead and grab the actual points of it by using the Direct Selection Tool and I can go ahead and modify it in all kinds of ways. So I'm making this really crazy like this. He has a big, fishy bump on his head. I'll exit Isolation Mode and now I'm back in my document. I'll double click this time on his chin and once again I can change the color and I can go back to my document in a different way, as you saw there. Instead of double clicking on this arrow, all I did this time was double click somewhere in my document. So that's a faster way to get back to your main document. So I'll change the color of this guy as well, double click over there and now I'm making this really, really poorly-dressed superhero costume. So Isolation Mode is a really nice way to work. It allows you to literally, as it says, isolate the region in your document that you want to work with without being able to select anything else. As you see here, I'm trying my best to draw a marquee to grab the rest of this file, but I can't. I can only change what I'm working with and when I'm done I can double click here and wow. I don't think any criminal in the world would be scared of this guy now. Or then again they might be because if he's going to dress like this, he might be kind of scarier than they thought.