Illustrator CC: Preferences: how to turn the selection to the current layer only

Hey there,

I come from a middle of Gimp for image manipulation and a useful feature, it was, that you can only select an object that was on your currently selected layer. This makes it easier to choose specific objects in your project or select-all on a single layer. I'm new to Illustrator and the default setting for the option to select any object, on any layer, feels a bit unnatural. In my view reduce the objects that you can select at the same time, gives an added advantage to work with layers.

Is it possible to change this default setting in the illustrator preferences, to allow the selection of objects only on the current selected layer?

Thank you for your time,

-SixT

usually we lock just the layers unwanted in the layers palette objects or the lock we do not want to go if they are on the same layer.

objects act as a sublayer in a doc with a single layer as shown below and can be locked in the same way, by clicking on the lock box in the palette or by going to the manu at the top of the screen for object > lock.

This screenshot shows a doc with multiple layers, some are hidden using the "eye" ball icon and some are locked using the lock icon.

'points' on the right can be clicked to select the entire document on a layer.

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