When you're working in Adobe Illustrator, keeping your artwork on different layers can be a huge time-saver and makes it much easier to edit with complex illustrations — much like Photoshop.

But sometimes you can't be bothered to name your layers properly and you rely on the little icons in the Layers Panel to tell you which layer you want to work on. The problem is that those tiny layer icons can be difficult to identify the more you put on each layer (See the image above). Thankfully, Illustrator gives you way to make the icons in the Layer Panel larger.

First, open the Layers Panel flyout menu and scroll all the way to the bottom and select Panel Options. Next, select the Other: radio button and enter a pixel amount in the size box (I chose 50 pixels). Obviously, this is the size you want your Layers Panel icons to appear. I recommend staying 75 pixels or under — anything larger and you'll be scrolling quite a bit to see the layers in the Panel. Now just click OK and you're all set.

As you can see by the image below, the icons in the Layers Panel are now much easier to decipher.

Though my sample illustration isn't difficult to begin with, you can easily see the advantage of making the icons larger when you compare it to the first image.