Adobe Illustrator - Actions - Class 20 - Tech Learning 4U :

Assalamualaikum,

welcome to Tech Learning 4U

i am your teacher Zohaib and today i come with class no 20

and what will happen in today's class ?

Actions you had seen this in Photoshop

if you didn't then no problem

but for those who know about it i want to tell them Illustrator also

have action

i will not say action action is most important

but if you know this

your work will be little bit faster

so let see what is the work of action here

first of all see where you will get this action panel

if you will go to window

and see this in the top you will get actions written here

click here then

you will get this action panel here

here you will see a folder type thing

which includes some default actions

so what are these default actions ?

i will understand you in sometimes

so first understand this panel little bit

here below you delete selection,

create new action and create new set

play, begin recording and stop playing and recording

right . so what their use ?

see here there are some default actions

like example opacity 60 %

optacity 40 % , screen selection

so what is the purpose of these ?

see i made a object here

let suppose i made one more object on it

whose colour is something else from it

so i want this blue object

which is selected object

see here in bracket is written so this will apply on selection only

and if will play from here then

it's opacity will become 60 %

so you are thinking

this was a small thing

and see when i played this it's opacity became 60 % and you are thinking

same work we can do with transparency panel also

but for that you have to do many things like you have to open transparency panel then you have to do many things there like drag , giving values and many things

so it will take some times

but here you just need to play

and one more interesting thing

here in action panel there is one fly out button and when you click here

in below you will get button mode

so if i will come to button mode

then here you will get buttons

so simply i am selecting this and

we don't need to do anything and there is no option

it is simply showing some buttons

so simply go there

see here is written opacity 40 % or 60 %

simply click here and action will play from here

yes it is quite helpful

but now the question is how to make our own actions

Right so first of all i removing this from buttoon mode

ok please check this default action mode

now i am not going in details about this

but yes after checking this you will know it clearly that

what types of options are available here

for example i want to make a action

so my action subject is that when i will make any icon

and when i will play on it

then it will automatically give me different

sizes of icon

so if we make this icon by myself then it will take some time

but think if i do one click and it will give me automatically three icons of different sizes

then it will be more easier

so let's see how to make our own action

so first of all see this default icon now don't disturb this

i do not want to disturb it

i am simply coming here and doing create new set

and i gave a name like

GFXMENTOR

ok

see here you will get a new set

no action recorded yet

i am making simply anything for this work

like in my mind i am thinking any size of object

and when we will play

then our actions

will play itself on everything

so definitely i have to make a object on my screen on which

i will do my recording

so always remember that you record action

right

simply come here

see i had selected this, so come here in new action and i clicked it

and i set a name

icon sizes

you can give any name

plus one more interesting thing is

that from here you can decide from here that in which set you want

 to put this

second thing is function key

if you want to give short cut for example

i set F2 and i am doing this with shift key

so

always remember if you are only setting F2 then

you have to notice that the short cuts which are in used,

make sure it doesn't make any conflict

that's why here some options are also given like shift and control

you can use it combine

so here if press shift + control+ F2 then our action will play itself

and you don't even need to press button

ok now i am taking shfit + F2 this time

and

ahm

colouring i am taking

Red

so what is the work of colour? when you will put this in button mode it will show Red colour

right and let's record

here is one small button when you will click it

Recording has started

till you work it will record all the steps

so first work i did is,

i went to transform panel and remember that

this constrained with must be on

otherwise this action will not work properly

so first i gave one size that is 32

by

32

ok

second thing i did that

i took my selection tool

and see when i did 32 by 32, it recorded one step

and i am doing right click on it

and i am going to transform and then transform each

i think you all watched how transform each works and

if you didn't watched then i am giving link of that see right side upward position

so watch that please

so i came transform each

i have to do that from here

that i want to take 64 by 64 and other size is 128 by 128

means

double size of it

so i made horizontal scale from here

approximately

200 % horizontal and 200 % vertical scale

see you can watch preview also

if preview is not on then on it from here

so except that i am moving from here

now here is movement is 100 points

right maximum 200 points are given so if i move it 200 points

then it will do 200 points

so let's keep it 150 points

i am moving it 150 points horizontally

ok and i am also doing

copy with it

ok

when i did copy , this 32 by 32 copied

into 64 by 64 by this

i am talking about size ok

and if i do one more time copy it will do transform again

which is also recorded

and if you want one more copy

yes it will make but remember

it will come in like this that is overlap way

i am doing undo

because i don't want this

i am doing stop from here

so remember i did control + D here it is also recorded

so first step was , i did from transform panel that to generate it

was 32 by 32 , second step was i did from transform each panel to generate this

third step was transform again due to which this was generated

and this thing which i had generate

remember that it had taken double size which i used at that time

remember that undo dost not record

ok so i don't need this step so i am simply dragging and deleting this from here

so i my action is ready that is icon sets

now if make any size of object suppose

let say this icon and

when i will play this. ok

when i will play this, it will give me this pannel

but why this is coming ?

i want that it will don't ask me

so come below and see this toggle on/off

if your toggle is on

then it will show dialog box and it will ask you

what to do ? so remove this from here

simply do one click

it will not ask anything

so i am doing one more try

let say i made a circle of any size , it doesn't matter

and i did play from here

right , one more thing i said you that i made a short shortcut of it

if i will press shift + F2 then also

this action will play

so right come in our pencil icon

we will try on it

i take a pencil in random size here

alright so

so i don't need anything

i will simply select this and i will press shift + F2 and that's it

best thing is that actions are applicable in every file

it is not necessary that you have to work on only that file in which you made your actions

it is not like

brushes and swatches process

actions are also available at every files

one more thing i want to tell you that

i had selected red colour while making my action

if i will open button point then see 

This red colour is showing including it's short cut

Shift + F2 i hope you like actions

there are many things in this and

you can do many useful things for example

if you want to save anything in some format or you want to export

you can make actions of all types of things.

so Guyz this is Last  Class OF Adobe Illustrator CC,

And If you want to learn Any Other thing of Illustrator. Just Tell me

 in Comment I will Guide you

Okay Thank you