Holding Control key and clicking on a New Layer icon should create a new layer below, as in Photoshop
Originally mentioned by Mohammed Amjed Khan Abro here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41107321
Layers Panel.
Holding or pressing the Control key and clicking on a new layer icon in Photoshop to creates a new layer below all the layers if no layer is selected, if a layer is selected then you do the same action will create a new layer below the selected layer which really makes sense.
The same thing would be very comfortable in Illustrator if that feature would be added in the Layers and Appearance Panel.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Yes, this is a lesser known way to create layers underneath.
...to be honest, it’s good you mentioned it, because I always treated it as a bug and dared not to speak about it, so it won’t get 'fixed'.
Because the Grid in Overprint Preview WAS fixed, and now I don’t have a way to have subtle grids! :) -
Margaret Trauth
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fwiw:
Keyboard shortcuts: menu>other panel>new layer with dialogue *always* creates a new layer below the layer currently targeted to draw in (shown by the little white triangle in the upper right of its entry in the layers panel).
I know this because this, or custom scripts that make sets of layers, is pretty much the only way I make new layers any more. :)
Sometimes I think it would be kinda nice if this created a new layer above/below the current one based on the current Draw Above/Below state. Then I ask myself what it should do if that's currently set to Draw Inside and I don't have a good answer for that.
(It might actually only *almost* always create the new layer below the current targeted layer, I feel like sometimes it shows up above and I have never been able to nail down any consistent pattern in this happening. Usually I'm not even looking at the layers panel when I'm making layers this way anyway.
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Mohammed Amjed Khan Abro
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That’s a great feature, and I’d like to have it in Illustrator and InDesign as well.
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A related request about Appearance:
Cmd / Ctrl or Alt + New Fill/Stroke button in Appearance should add one below current fill/stroke
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34858339