Filtering layers?

[ianrobertdouglas]

Is there any way to filter through layers, or could this be possible in the future?

 

The layers panel is good, but perhaps could be even better.

 

For example: Sometimes using live trace in Illustrator produces hundreds of layers and doesn't group them. Say you have a black and white patterned image. The black and white layers will be mixed up together. But say I only want to change the color of white layers, or to hide them, I have to go through the mixed up layers one by one.

 

I would love to be able to filter layers somehow. By color would seem one possibility.

 

The media assets tool Pixave has something like this (it allows you to look for assets in your library by color). Could something similar be brought into AD?

[ianrobertdouglas]

Further to this, ability to group select visible layers would be great.

 

Real world example: Say you have an image with 100 layers and you want to hide 40 and change the color on 60 of them, you presently have to manually hide the 40 and manually select the 60. It would be great if there was an option, having hidden the 40, to select all remaining visible layers.