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An active layer is anything that is being used at the time. Usually it has an "eye" peeking out from a box. If you want the layer to be inactive then you just click on the eye and it will turn the layer off. Active layers are there to show what layers are currently being used. It helps me when I'm drawing because if I make a mistake and there are multiple layers active then I can turn them off and see just what layer I made the mistake on.

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