Add "Layer" to the application menu like File, Edit, Object... like Photoshop has.
Add "Layer" to the application menu like File, Edit, Object, Type, Select, Effect, View, Help.
Like Photoshop has.
Explanation: Reading through the menu items is much more intuitive when learning about the application capabilities in regards to many features. Going from Photoshop to Illustrator, there are many similarities however the unique separations of the features such as accessing and interacting with the layers is one of the main inhibitors during my orientation to using illustrator to the degree to which I use photoshop.
Shawn Nix
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Even though both Ai and Ps have 'layers', they are treated rather differently.
What Photoshop has stored in Layers, Ai has in Object and Select (since Ai doesn’t have pixel-based selections).
So there is almost nothing to put into separate menu... Some few unique commands are accessible only from the Layers panel’s flyout menu, and some wish to be able to assign hotkeys to then (like the 'Locate' command, asked here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34798945) — but again, moving other commands, like Lock and Hide, would be a gigantic change. Thousands of tutorials would expire, many workflows affected, muscle memory trashed...Ai and Ps are deceptively similar. I personally am sure that pushing them into a each other would harm more than help.
However, this in an interesting idea... let’s see if others like it.
