From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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Recording a practical action - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Recording a practical action
In this exercise I am going to show you how to record a practical action. I'll also show you what to do if something goes wrong. Here I am still working inside Musical review.ai found inside the 30_actions folder, and I've created this new action, Save for Web PNG 8/64 and I am still recording. Now if you decided to stop recording at some point in time, which is just fine, by clicking on that square stop button, then go ahead if you're working along with me and click on the Begin Recording button, to begin recording once again. So that's all you have to do to reactivate that action and get it going. Now let's say I look at my illustration and I see that my text is selected, and I don't really want to have my text selected, so, I could go up to the Select menu and choose a deselect command or it's perfectly acceptable to use keyboard shortcuts. Even the keyboard shortcuts I've given you. Illustrator will not record the shortcut, it will record the command that the shortcut is playing…
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Take action today, save effort tomorrow33s
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Introducing the Actions panel4m 16s
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Initiating a new action5m 32s
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Recording a practical action4m 56s
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Four ways to play an action4m 27s
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Streamlining by disabling dialog boxes5m 48s
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Editing an action set in a text editor7m 20s
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Inserting an unresponsive menu item6m 16s
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Match-processing a folder of files5m 42s
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Recording a transformation sequence6m 10s
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Editing and troubleshooting an action5m 6s
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Recording actions within actions7m 21s
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