WEBVTT 00:00.150 --> 00:04.910 Write the video we're going to learn the shortcuts for aligning and distributing. 00:05.190 --> 00:08.560 And the short answer is there's no shortcuts. 00:08.580 --> 00:13.010 And the syllabus had to make it Keeble which will cause he can make them that way. 00:13.020 --> 00:16.140 Either way we're going to use something called the Actions panel. 00:16.140 --> 00:22.830 So let's go about as we learned how to make this kind of custom shortcut using actions and in Illustrator 00:22.860 --> 00:24.500 for aligning and distributing. 00:24.510 --> 00:26.020 But you can use this for anything. 00:26.190 --> 00:27.960 OK so let's get started. 00:27.960 --> 00:32.880 So first up if you just want to be super quick you don't want to learn this you want to download my 00:32.880 --> 00:39.150 ones you can do that but it's got a window actions and I've got some default shortcuts made for Mac 00:39.150 --> 00:39.520 only. 00:39.530 --> 00:45.210 So I beseech people if you make a PC one awesome send it to me and I'll add it to the exercise files 00:45.210 --> 00:45.630 as well. 00:45.630 --> 00:47.470 So that would be super cool. 00:47.700 --> 00:51.690 So to load the ones that I've made go to that's a little big. 00:51.690 --> 00:54.010 I mean you have go to load actions. 00:54.150 --> 00:56.480 And there's one called a line in distribution. 00:56.640 --> 01:01.370 OK and I've got some basics in there we're going to make vertical in the second but that will be there 01:01.380 --> 01:04.760 when you download it and the shortcuts that I've got came in. 01:04.770 --> 01:05.810 This is MECO really. 01:05.940 --> 01:08.220 I'm holding the command key down in the function key. 01:08.220 --> 01:12.370 So you get your keyboard there's an if in key you need to hold down both of those. 01:12.450 --> 01:16.660 And then we use the F keys along the top case if one of two or three four. 01:16.770 --> 01:24.150 So the basics if I select these two guys command function if one is left the line command function if 01:24.150 --> 01:26.760 two is right a line if three. 01:26.760 --> 01:34.830 I'm just going to ignore the command function OK so if 3 is seen horizontally forwards vertically and 01:34.830 --> 01:36.940 then you've got distibution k now. 01:37.020 --> 01:39.050 The reason distribution is a little bit difference. 01:39.140 --> 01:42.480 Grabble these guys and its command function. 01:42.510 --> 01:46.450 I'm using 12 and a half a live in for the up and down left and right. 01:46.480 --> 01:50.820 OK you could change all is you can rename them horizontal or vertical up and down makes more sense to 01:50.820 --> 01:52.290 me the vertical horizontal. 01:52.290 --> 01:54.310 You can go and change it by double clicking them OK. 01:54.390 --> 01:58.960 Well what you're going to run into when you're creating your own unlike what I did is I wanted use a 01:58.980 --> 02:00.030 5 for this one. 02:00.080 --> 02:05.220 Five opens up the voiceover thing which is really a command function of five. 02:05.250 --> 02:06.080 My Mac was 02:08.940 --> 02:12.640 that thing we've all turned on onstage and not know how to turn it off. 02:12.840 --> 02:14.980 And so yeah you run into some when you're making your own. 02:15.000 --> 02:19.460 You'll run into some problems with preexisting function keys. 02:19.470 --> 02:25.290 PCs are easier than it controls how many of those keys were missing center vertical. 02:25.470 --> 02:32.070 So to make it what we're going to do is we're going to go to you have either selected a new can you 02:32.070 --> 02:33.690 action decide where to put it. 02:33.700 --> 02:39.630 I've made my own folder you can just stick it in the default actions and stick him decide what shortcut 02:39.630 --> 02:40.510 you're going to use. 02:40.560 --> 02:44.890 And in our case we're going to use it for I've tested it command function for. 02:45.030 --> 02:48.570 Even though it doesn't say function on a Mac you have the whole function even though they don't say 02:48.570 --> 02:49.070 it. 02:49.080 --> 02:54.510 OK but tis the Mount OK to see if they'll you might come back in and change them because it might open. 02:54.590 --> 02:55.590 Voiceover. 02:55.800 --> 03:00.270 This one here is going to be called s.a vertical vertical. 03:00.510 --> 03:04.910 Austin I'll call the up and down and if the right as well. 03:04.950 --> 03:07.060 Not sure why that baffles me so much anyway. 03:07.140 --> 03:09.330 So it's recording Kate's going to record your action. 03:09.330 --> 03:11.540 What do you do next is going to be part of the shortcut. 03:11.640 --> 03:15.800 And we're going to go up a line of coke. 03:15.850 --> 03:16.740 That's a. 03:16.850 --> 03:17.420 Vertical. 03:17.640 --> 03:23.250 And you can see it recorded it stop and hopefully now Ashburner sick these guys and go c'mon function 03:23.320 --> 03:25.080 f four. 03:25.440 --> 03:26.900 And it lines up. 03:26.940 --> 03:29.900 So that's how you create your own kind of custom shortcut. 03:29.940 --> 03:31.440 Start it make a new one. 03:31.440 --> 03:35.880 Give it a name give it a shortcut which you'll have to probably test a few times. 03:35.880 --> 03:39.930 I know that if five doesn't work and a few other ones on a Mac that doesn't work. 03:39.930 --> 03:41.100 But yeah and then just do stuff. 03:41.100 --> 03:46.440 Now you can take this further and do things like rotate it and keep recording. 03:46.440 --> 03:53.670 So if I go to here and I hit record it'll move it will rotate and you can see it's recording everything. 03:53.820 --> 03:58.920 OK so now if I stop it and I go you my friend my shortcut command function is for. 03:59.050 --> 03:59.430 OK. 03:59.460 --> 04:01.170 It moved it up and rotated it. 04:01.170 --> 04:04.770 So you got to if you're doing something quite repetitive you can record it. 04:04.780 --> 04:05.740 It requires everything. 04:05.790 --> 04:08.740 OK so I'm going to delete these guys here. 04:08.980 --> 04:09.570 You've got 04:12.720 --> 04:17.240 and that's going to be as I'll say these in the exercise files and you can just use mine. 04:17.390 --> 04:18.300 You do a PC one. 04:18.330 --> 04:21.690 I'd love you to do it and drop it to me. 04:21.690 --> 04:25.590 Send me a message and I'll add it to the exercise balls. 04:25.590 --> 04:26.340 All right peeps. 04:26.340 --> 04:27.940 I will see you in the next video.