Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Recording a practical action, part of Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery.
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.…So I'm just going to do that, I am going to press Ctrl+Shift+A, Command+Shift+A…
Author
Deke McClelland
Released
1/28/2011- Working with dynamic effects
- Placing artwork as a Photoshop Smart Object
- Creating and editing a Gradient Mesh
- Distorting artwork with an Envelope Mesh
- Using the Calligraphic, Art, and Scatter Brushes
- Creating an intricate Pattern Brush
- Importing and graphing data
- Creating a complex pictograph
- Drawing and editing a perspective shape
- Working with the new Perspective Grid tool
- Using the 3D Revolve effect
- Creating 3D type with Extrude & Bevel
- Recording and playing automated actions
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
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Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?
A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.
Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.
~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US
Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."
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Introduction
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Welcome45s
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Remapping Mac OS shortcuts6m 56s
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23. Dynamic Effects
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Vector vs. raster effects5m 46s
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Introducing Graphic Styles6m 50s
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Combining and saving styles4m 32s
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24. Gradient Mesh
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Working with the Mesh tool6m 12s
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25. Liquify and Envelope
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Introducing the Warp tool6m 29s
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Introducing Envelope Distort5m 21s
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Warping an envelope mesh5m 20s
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26. Brushes
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Outlines along a path1m 13s
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Creating a pattern brush8m 20s
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Start, end, and corner tiles8m 58s
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27. Graphs and Pictographs
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Charts can be beautiful1m 17s
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Importing and graphing data5m 22s
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Correcting and editing data6m 51s
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Making a basic pictograph6m 47s
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28. Perspective Drawing
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29. 3D Effects
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Just another dynamic effect1m 10s
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The 3D Revolve settings7m 24s
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Fixing 3D rendering problems6m 32s
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Adjusting shading and light6m 25s
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30. Actions
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Initiating a new action5m 33s
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Recording a practical action4m 56s
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Four ways to play an action4m 27s
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Conclusion
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See Ya1m 36s
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