Recording a custom multistep action

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you…how to record your own multi-step action…and so the idea is we're going to create an action…that shades the bottom of each one of these blocks…of metal type in order to create this effect, right here.…Let me explain the context, here.…I'll go ahead and turn off this image layer for a moment…so that you can see that the bottoms of each one…of these blocks is set to a different shade of gray.…I want to retain that shading but I want to add a gradient…on top of each one.…Now, if I wanted them to be exactly the same…then I could just add a gradient to one of the blocks…and then eye-dropper the other ones but as I say…I want each one of the gray values to be slightly different.…

All right, so what I recommend you do in a case like this…is figure out what you want to do in advance…and then record the action after that…and so I'm going to start with the base at the end…and then I'll up to the Window menu…and choose the Appearance command to bring up…the Appearance panel and then I'll go ahead…