1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:02.00 - [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you four, 2 00:00:02.00 --> 00:00:05.06 count them, four different ways to play back actions 3 00:00:05.06 --> 00:00:08.06 here inside Illustrator and that will allow us 4 00:00:08.06 --> 00:00:11.08 to use a different technique to play the action back 5 00:00:11.08 --> 00:00:15.06 on each one of these four surfaces, right here. 6 00:00:15.06 --> 00:00:17.07 So, I'll start off by selecting this guy 7 00:00:17.07 --> 00:00:21.07 and I missed; I ended up selecting the big image 8 00:00:21.07 --> 00:00:23.02 and that's because it's in front. 9 00:00:23.02 --> 00:00:24.08 So, if you're working along with me 10 00:00:24.08 --> 00:00:27.06 you just want to go ahead and lock down that image layer 11 00:00:27.06 --> 00:00:29.09 and then I'll click again and this time 12 00:00:29.09 --> 00:00:33.00 I go ahead and select the shape I'm looking for. 13 00:00:33.00 --> 00:00:35.01 After which point I'll bring back the Actions panel 14 00:00:35.01 --> 00:00:37.08 by clicking on this triangular, play icon 15 00:00:37.08 --> 00:00:40.04 and notice that my action is twirled open 16 00:00:40.04 --> 00:00:42.06 so that I'm seeing each and every step 17 00:00:42.06 --> 00:00:44.05 and you can take a look at what each step does 18 00:00:44.05 --> 00:00:47.03 by twirling it open but I'm more interested 19 00:00:47.03 --> 00:00:49.05 in playing it back and so you might figure 20 00:00:49.05 --> 00:00:52.06 you double-click on the action but that's going to bring back 21 00:00:52.06 --> 00:00:54.06 up the Action Options dialogue box 22 00:00:54.06 --> 00:00:56.06 which will allow you to rename the action, 23 00:00:56.06 --> 00:00:58.00 if you want to, as well as change 24 00:00:58.00 --> 00:01:00.01 the Function key and color. 25 00:01:00.01 --> 00:01:01.04 I don't want to change any of that 26 00:01:01.04 --> 00:01:03.02 so I'll just go ahead and click Cancel. 27 00:01:03.02 --> 00:01:06.01 Instead, what you do is drop down to the play icon 28 00:01:06.01 --> 00:01:08.06 at the bottom of the panel and so you can either 29 00:01:08.06 --> 00:01:11.09 play a selected action or you can click on a step 30 00:01:11.09 --> 00:01:15.03 in the action and play it and if you select 31 00:01:15.03 --> 00:01:17.02 one of the later steps, you'll just play 32 00:01:17.02 --> 00:01:19.01 from that point onward. 33 00:01:19.01 --> 00:01:20.05 I want to play the entire action, 34 00:01:20.05 --> 00:01:22.00 because otherwise it's not going to work. 35 00:01:22.00 --> 00:01:24.05 So, I'll just go ahead and select the action itself 36 00:01:24.05 --> 00:01:27.04 and click on the play button in order to play the thing 37 00:01:27.04 --> 00:01:29.07 back and you can see that goes ahead 38 00:01:29.07 --> 00:01:32.04 and adds a second fill in the form of a gradient 39 00:01:32.04 --> 00:01:33.07 to that shape. 40 00:01:33.07 --> 00:01:35.01 All right, here's another way to work. 41 00:01:35.01 --> 00:01:37.03 I'll go ahead and select this shape, right here 42 00:01:37.03 --> 00:01:40.01 and another option which can be very useful 43 00:01:40.01 --> 00:01:42.02 if you're trying to troubleshoot an action 44 00:01:42.02 --> 00:01:44.09 is to Control + Double-click. 45 00:01:44.09 --> 00:01:46.06 That'd be a Command + Double-click. 46 00:01:46.06 --> 00:01:49.09 Either on the action name or on a specific step. 47 00:01:49.09 --> 00:01:51.08 For example, if I just want to see what this one's 48 00:01:51.08 --> 00:01:55.01 doing, then I could Control + Double-Click on it 49 00:01:55.01 --> 00:01:58.04 and that's going to play that step and move on to the next one. 50 00:01:58.04 --> 00:01:59.08 Now, we're not seeing any kind of difference 51 00:01:59.08 --> 00:02:01.08 in the Document window but we have actually 52 00:02:01.08 --> 00:02:04.01 made a difference and you can see that if you switch over 53 00:02:04.01 --> 00:02:06.00 to the Appearance panel, notice that I went ahead 54 00:02:06.00 --> 00:02:09.05 and added a new fill and then if I Control + Double-Click 55 00:02:09.05 --> 00:02:12.02 on this next step, I'll change the fill to a gradient; 56 00:02:12.02 --> 00:02:14.04 Control + Double-Click on this guy. 57 00:02:14.04 --> 00:02:16.07 Notice that we're always Control + Double-Clicking 58 00:02:16.07 --> 00:02:18.03 or Command + Double-Clicking on the Mac 59 00:02:18.03 --> 00:02:22.01 on the step that's active because after it plays back 60 00:02:22.01 --> 00:02:25.04 then Illustrator automatically moves to the next step 61 00:02:25.04 --> 00:02:27.03 and so by Control + Double-Clicking 62 00:02:27.03 --> 00:02:29.06 or Command + Double-Clicking on each step 63 00:02:29.06 --> 00:02:33.04 I can see exactly what it does which can be very useful 64 00:02:33.04 --> 00:02:35.04 when you're playing back other people's actions 65 00:02:35.04 --> 00:02:37.08 and you're trying to figure out how they put that action 66 00:02:37.08 --> 00:02:38.09 together. 67 00:02:38.09 --> 00:02:40.07 All right, here's a third way to work. 68 00:02:40.07 --> 00:02:43.03 I'll go ahead and select the bottom if this block 69 00:02:43.03 --> 00:02:45.01 and then I'll click on the fly-out menu icon 70 00:02:45.01 --> 00:02:47.09 in the top, right corner of the Actions panel 71 00:02:47.09 --> 00:02:50.08 and I'll choose this guy right here: Button Mode, 72 00:02:50.08 --> 00:02:53.04 which is going to show you each and every one 73 00:02:53.04 --> 00:02:56.03 of the actions represented as a button 74 00:02:56.03 --> 00:02:58.05 and you can see, down here at the bottom, 75 00:02:58.05 --> 00:03:00.06 that we've got an orange button because after all 76 00:03:00.06 --> 00:03:03.00 I set the color for the action to orange 77 00:03:03.00 --> 00:03:06.02 and that's the one that we recorded in the previous movie. 78 00:03:06.02 --> 00:03:07.09 And so the Button Mode can be perfect 79 00:03:07.09 --> 00:03:11.00 if you're trying to create actions for worker bees 80 00:03:11.00 --> 00:03:14.01 whose job it is to play the actions back and that's it. 81 00:03:14.01 --> 00:03:16.00 So, all I have to do to play the action 82 00:03:16.00 --> 00:03:18.08 is just click on a button and it plays, like so. 83 00:03:18.08 --> 00:03:20.09 So, it's absolute magic and unless that person 84 00:03:20.09 --> 00:03:23.00 knows to click on the fly-out menu icon 85 00:03:23.00 --> 00:03:26.01 and turn off Button Mode then you can rest assured 86 00:03:26.01 --> 00:03:30.00 that they won't be modifying any of the steps. 87 00:03:30.00 --> 00:03:32.02 Thing is: if you want to modify the steps 88 00:03:32.02 --> 00:03:33.07 where you want to add new actions, 89 00:03:33.07 --> 00:03:35.07 you need to turn Button Mode off. 90 00:03:35.07 --> 00:03:38.02 So, Button Mode is strictly for playing actions 91 00:03:38.02 --> 00:03:39.05 and nothing more. 92 00:03:39.05 --> 00:03:41.09 All right, so, I'll go ahead and turn the command off 93 00:03:41.09 --> 00:03:44.00 to switch back to the standard Actions panel 94 00:03:44.00 --> 00:03:46.08 and I'll click on this final side, right here 95 00:03:46.08 --> 00:03:50.03 and your last option is to press that Function key shortcut. 96 00:03:50.03 --> 00:03:52.08 So, in my case, if I double-click on this action 97 00:03:52.08 --> 00:03:54.07 to bring up the Action Options dialogue box 98 00:03:54.07 --> 00:03:58.02 you can see that I applied Control + Shift + F2, 99 00:03:58.02 --> 00:04:01.00 that might be Command + Shift + F2 on a Mac. 100 00:04:01.00 --> 00:04:03.06 So, I'll just cancel that and press that shortcut: 101 00:04:03.06 --> 00:04:04.08 Control + Shift + F2. 102 00:04:04.08 --> 00:04:07.00 Again, that would translate to Command + Shift + F2 103 00:04:07.00 --> 00:04:09.04 on a Mac and sure enough that goes ahead 104 00:04:09.04 --> 00:04:13.08 and plays that action on that final side. 105 00:04:13.08 --> 00:04:15.08 And so, there you have it: four different ways 106 00:04:15.08 --> 00:04:18.09 to play back actions just so that, as always, 107 00:04:18.09 --> 00:04:22.09 you know every, single options available to you.