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Shortcuts for Aligning & Distributing in Illustrator CC Using Actions

Lesson 31 from: Adobe Illustrator Mastery

Daniel Walter Scott

Shortcuts for Aligning & Distributing in Illustrator CC Using Actions

Lesson 31 from: Adobe Illustrator Mastery

Daniel Walter Scott

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31. Shortcuts for Aligning & Distributing in Illustrator CC Using Actions

Lessons

Class Trailer

Overview

1

Class Introduction to Advanced Adobe Illustrator CC

02:35
2

Getting Started with Your Adobe Illustrator Advanced Tutorial

01:19

Drawing

3

Trick for Redrawing Hand Drawn Images in Adobe Illustrator CC

03:17
4

Curvature Tool vs Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

10:27
5

Advanced Pen Tool Tricks Using Adobe Illustrator CC

08:47
6

How to Draw Flowing Curves in Adobe Illustrator with the Width Tool

13:14
7

Mastering Corners with Adobe Illustrator CC Corner Widget Effects

05:27
8

The Best Creation Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC the Shape Builder Tool

23:01
9

More Shape Builder Goodness

11:02
10

Using Live Shape Effects in Adobe Illustrator CC

06:03
11

Class Project - Drawing Exercise Using Width, Curvature & Corner Widgets

01:38
12

Drawing - Quiz

Keyboard Shortcuts

13

Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CC

11:05
14

Keyboard Shortcuts - Quiz

Color & Patterns

15

Advanced Color Tips & Tricks for Adobe Illustrator CC

15:44
16

Using Color Themes in Adobe Illustrator CC

03:02
17

How to Color a Real Hand Drawing Using Adobe Illustrator CC

07:07
18

How to Use the Color Guide in Adobe Illustrator

02:47
19

How to Change All the Colors at Once in Adobe Illustrator Recolour Artwork

04:19
20

How to Make Gradients Bend in Adobe Illustrator CC Using Gradient Mesh

13:36
21

How to Make Long Shadows in Adobe Illustrator CC

07:15
22

How to Blend Images with the Background Colors in Adobe Illustrator Blend Modes

03:26
23

How to Make Images Black & White in Illustrator & Mix with Color

07:44
24

How Do You Make Anaglyphic Text Using Adobe Illustrator CC

06:12
25

How to Make Gradient Stroke Overlap & Mix Colors in Adobe Illustrator

06:39
26

How to Create a Duotone Image Effect in Adobe Illustrator CC

07:23
27

Advanced Repeating Pattern Swatches in Adobe Illustrator CC

14:16
28

Color & Patterns - Quiz

Workflow Speed

29

How to Change The Default Font & Swatches in Adobe Illustrator CC

07:36
30

Advanced Workflow Tricks for Adobe Illustrator CC

10:52
31

Shortcuts for Aligning & Distributing in Illustrator CC Using Actions

04:28
32

How to Proof Colors in Adobe Illustrator CC

01:25
33

Adobe Illustrator is Running Slow, How Do I Speed Up Illustrator

09:40
34

How Best to Use Illustrator With Other Adobe CC Software

08:13
35

Workflow Speed - Quiz

Typography

36

Advanced Fonts Tricks & Tips in Adobe Illustrator CC

07:52
37

How to Put Text Type into the Shape of a Letter in Adobe Illustrator CC

08:40
38

How to Use the Touch Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

02:27
39

Typography - Quiz

Strokes & Lines

40

How to Multiply Strokes to a Path in Adobe Illustrator CC

06:24
41

How to Add a Stroke Line Around the Outside of Text or Shapes in Illustrator

03:45
42

How to Make Multiple Lines Using Offset Path in Adobe Illustrator CC

09:33

Depth, Perspective & 3D

43

Introduction to 3D in Adobe Illustrator CC

11:10
44

How to Make Semi Flat 3D Icons & UI Design Using Adobe Illustrator CC

15:22
45

How to Make the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Illustrator CC

09:35

Charts & Graphs

46

How to Make a Pie Chart Line Graph & Bar Graph in Adobe Illustrator CC

17:38

Artboards & Pages

47

Advanced Artboard & Pages Tricks in Adobe Illustrator CC

05:42

Creative Cloud

48

Advanced CC Libraries Adobe Stock and Adobe Market

09:12

Images

49

Advanced Image Tricks & Tips in Adobe Illustrator CC

07:22

Transform, Distort & Blend

50

How to Distort Bend Shapes & Type in Adobe Illustrator CC

03:39
51

How to Make a 3D Ribbon in Adobe Illustrator CC

08:58
52

How to Create Lots of Lines that Blend Together in Adobe Illustrator CC

09:24
53

How to Make 3D Gradient Lettering Blends in Adobe Illustrator CC

11:25
54

49. How to Make a Linocut Effect in Adobe Illustrator CC

08:26
55

How to Use the Puppet Warp Tool in Adobe Illustrator CC

09:33
56

Transform, Distort & Blend Quiz

Web UI design

57

How to Use Adobe Illustrator for Web & UI Design

15:17

Animating

58

How to Make an Animated GIF Using Adobe Illustrator CC

14:52

Conclusion

59

What Next After Your Illustrator Advanced Course

01:07

Final Quiz

60

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Shortcuts for Aligning & Distributing in Illustrator CC Using Actions

Alright, this video, we're going to learn the shortcuts for aligning and distributing. And the short answer is there's no default shortcuts and it's a little bit hard to make they're not under edit keyboard shortcuts, you can't make them that way either. Okay, we're gonna use something called the actions panel. So let's go. The cool thing about it is we're gonna learn how to make this kind of custom shortcut using actions um in illustrator for aligning and distributing, but you can use this for anything. Okay, So yeah, let's get started. So first up, if you just want to be super quick and you don't wanna actually learn this, you want to download my ones, you can do that. But let's get a window actions and I've got some default shortcuts made. Its for Mac only. Sorry, pc people, if you make a pc one, awesome, send it to me and I'll add it to the exercise files as well. So that would be super cool. So to load, the ones that I've made, go to this little burger menu here, go to load action...

s and there's one called align and distribute. Okay? And I've got some basics in there, we're gonna make vertical in a second but that will be there when you download it. And the shortcuts that I've got to remember. This is Mac only. I'm holding the command key down and the function key. So check out your keyboard, there's an F. N. Key. You need to hold down both of those and then we use the F keys along the top. Okay, so F One F two. F 34. So the basics if I select these two guys command function F one is left align command function. F two is right align F three. I'm just gonna ignore the command function. Okay? So if three is um center horizontally, if four is vertically and then we've got distribution. Okay. Now the reason distribution is a little bit different if I grab all these guys and its command function, I'm using F and F 11 for the up and down left and right. Okay, you can change yours, you can rename them horizontal and vertical up and down. Makes more sense to me than vertical, horizontal. You can go and change it by double clicking them. Okay? You know what you're going to run into when you're creating your own and like what I did is I wanted to use F5 for this one but if five opens up the voiceover thing which is really command function in five. My mech, ah that thing we've all turned on at some stage and not know how to turn it off. So yeah, you'll run into some when you're making your own, you'll run into some problems with pre existing function keys. Pcs are easier. They don't control so many of those F keys were missing center vertical. So to make it, what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to have have that selected. Let's get a new Okay, new action, decide where to put it. I've made my own folder, you can just stick it in the default actions, but I'm gonna stick mine here, decide what shortcut you're going to use. And in our case we're gonna use F four, I've tested it command function F four. Even though it doesn't say function on a Mac, you have to hold function even though they don't say it okay? But test them out to see if they'll yeah, you might have to come back and then change them because it might open voice over. Okay, this one here is gonna be called center, vertical, vertical. Often all cold up and down and left and right as well. I'm not sure why that baffles me so much anyway, so it's recording. Okay? It's going to record your action whatever you do next is going to be part of the shortcut and we're going to go align vertical, yep, that's it. Okay, vertical. And you can see it recorded, head stop. Okay? And hopefully now I should be able to select these guys and go command function F Four and it lines them up so that's how you create your own kind of custom shortcut. Start it make a new one, give it a name, give it a shortcut, which you'll have to probably test a few times. I know that if five doesn't work and there's a few other ones on a Mac that doesn't work. But yeah. And then just do stuff now, you can take this further and do things like rotate, it'll keep recording. So if I go to here and I hit record it'll move it will rotate and you can see it's recording everything. Okay? So now if I stop it and I go you, my friend, my shortcut command function, therefore, okay, it moved it up and rotated it. So you gotta, if you're doing something quite repetitive, you can record it, records everything. Okay? So I'm going to delete these guys here, UK and that's gonna be us. I'll save these in the exercise files and you can just use mine to do a P. C. One. I'd love you to do it. Um Yeah drop it to me, send me a message and I'll add it to the exercise files. Alright? I will see you in the next video.

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