0 1 00:00:00,484 --> 00:00:02,796 In this video we're going to learn the shortcuts... 1 2 00:00:02,821 --> 00:00:04,766 for aligning and distributing. 2 3 00:00:05,023 --> 00:00:08,461 And the short answer is, there's no default shortcuts... 3 4 00:00:08,486 --> 00:00:09,976 and it's a little bit hard to make them. 4 5 00:00:10,001 --> 00:00:12,003 They're not under 'Edit', 'Keyboard shortcuts'... 5 6 00:00:12,028 --> 00:00:13,509 you can't make them that way either. 6 7 00:00:13,617 --> 00:00:15,710 We're going to use something called the Actions Panel. 7 8 00:00:17,078 --> 00:00:18,195 The cool thing about it is we're going to learn... 8 9 00:00:18,220 --> 00:00:20,954 how to make this kind of custom shortcuts using actions... 9 10 00:00:21,557 --> 00:00:24,432 in Illustrator for aligning and distributing... 10 11 00:00:24,464 --> 00:00:25,945 but you can use this for anything. 11 12 00:00:26,117 --> 00:00:27,690 So, let's get started. 12 13 00:00:27,854 --> 00:00:30,815 First up, if you just want to be super quick... 13 14 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,078 you don't want to actually learn this... 14 15 00:00:32,103 --> 00:00:33,692 you want to download my one, you can do that. 15 16 00:00:34,034 --> 00:00:35,714 Let's go to 'Window', 'Actions'. 16 17 00:00:35,807 --> 00:00:38,354 I've got some default shortcuts made. 17 18 00:00:38,379 --> 00:00:40,331 It's for Mac only, sorry PC people. 18 19 00:00:40,509 --> 00:00:42,701 If you make a PC one, awesome... 19 20 00:00:42,726 --> 00:00:45,557 send it to me, and I'll add it to the exercise files as well. 20 21 00:00:46,182 --> 00:00:47,354 That would be super cool. 21 22 00:00:47,971 --> 00:00:52,221 To load the ones that I've made, go to this burger menu here. 22 23 00:00:52,323 --> 00:00:56,119 Go to 'Load Actions', and there's one called 'Align & Distribute'. 23 24 00:00:56,792 --> 00:01:00,049 I've got some basics in there. We're going to make vertical in a second... 24 25 00:01:00,074 --> 00:01:02,198 but that would be there when you download it. 25 26 00:01:02,714 --> 00:01:05,644 The shortcuts that I've got, remember, this is for Mac only... 26 27 00:01:05,815 --> 00:01:08,300 I'm holding the 'Command' key down, and the Function 'Fn' key. 27 28 00:01:08,325 --> 00:01:10,565 Check out your keyboard, there's a Fn key. 28 29 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,549 You need to hold down both of those, then we use the F keys along the top. 29 30 00:01:14,768 --> 00:01:16,479 So F1, F2, F3, F4. 30 31 00:01:16,643 --> 00:01:19,648 The basics are, if I select these two guys... 31 32 00:01:19,878 --> 00:01:22,979 'Command-Function-F1' is left align. 32 33 00:01:23,151 --> 00:01:25,423 'Command-Function-F2' is right align. 33 34 00:01:25,448 --> 00:01:26,449 'F3'... 34 35 00:01:26,628 --> 00:01:28,662 I'm just going to ignore the Command Function, okay? 35 36 00:01:28,687 --> 00:01:32,726 So 'F3' is center horizontally. 36 37 00:01:32,948 --> 00:01:36,018 'F4' is vertically, and then we've got distribution. 37 38 00:01:36,245 --> 00:01:38,893 Now the reason distribution is a little bit different... 38 39 00:01:38,926 --> 00:01:42,385 if I grab all these guys-- it's 'Command Function'... 39 40 00:01:42,410 --> 00:01:46,065 I'm using F12 and F11 for up, down, left, and right. 40 41 00:01:46,690 --> 00:01:49,393 You can change yours, you can rename them horizontal, vertical. 41 42 00:01:49,418 --> 00:01:52,120 Up and down makes more sense to me than vertical and horizontal. 42 43 00:01:52,145 --> 00:01:54,229 You can go and change them by double clicking them. 43 44 00:01:54,254 --> 00:01:55,673 Now what you're going to run into... 44 45 00:01:55,698 --> 00:01:57,643 when you're creating your own, and what I did... 45 46 00:01:57,668 --> 00:01:59,752 is I want to use F5 for this one... 46 47 00:01:59,777 --> 00:02:03,033 but F5 opens up the voice over thing... 47 48 00:02:03,058 --> 00:02:05,807 which is really Command Function F5 on my Mac. 48 49 00:02:08,768 --> 00:02:10,815 That thing we've all turned on at some stage... 49 50 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,331 and don't know how to turn it off. 50 51 00:02:14,096 --> 00:02:16,385 When you're making your own, you'll run into some problems... 51 52 00:02:16,617 --> 00:02:19,297 with pre-existing function keys. 52 53 00:02:19,322 --> 00:02:22,742 PCs are easier, there are controls underneath those F keys. 53 54 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,084 Now we're missing center vertical 54 55 00:02:25,396 --> 00:02:28,310 So to make it, what we're going to do, is go to... 55 56 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,436 let's go to 'New', 'New Action'. 56 57 00:02:32,522 --> 00:02:33,553 Decide where to put it. 57 58 00:02:33,585 --> 00:02:36,103 I've made my folder, you can just stick it in the default actions... 58 59 00:02:36,128 --> 00:02:37,404 but I'm going to stick mine here. 59 60 00:02:38,693 --> 00:02:40,310 Decide what shortcut you're going to use. 60 61 00:02:40,420 --> 00:02:44,702 And in our case, we're going to use F4, I've tested it, 'Command-Function-F4'. 61 62 00:02:44,873 --> 00:02:46,174 Every time it doesn't say Function... 62 63 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:48,624 on a Mac you have to hold 'Function' even though they don't say it. 63 64 00:02:48,959 --> 00:02:51,694 But test them out, to see if-- 64 65 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:53,687 you might have to come back and then change them... 65 66 00:02:53,712 --> 00:02:54,998 because it might open voice over. 66 67 00:02:55,522 --> 00:02:59,724 This one here is going to called Center Vertical. 67 68 00:03:00,388 --> 00:03:04,739 Often I'll call it up and down, and, left and right as well. 68 69 00:03:04,764 --> 00:03:06,444 Not sure why that baffles me so much. 69 70 00:03:06,469 --> 00:03:07,897 Anyway, so it's recording. 70 71 00:03:07,922 --> 00:03:09,088 It's going to record your action... 71 72 00:03:09,113 --> 00:03:11,312 whatever you do next is going to be part of that shortcut. 72 73 00:03:11,491 --> 00:03:15,420 And we're going to go 'Align Vertical'. 73 74 00:03:17,537 --> 00:03:19,115 And you can see it recorded it. Hit 'Stop'. 74 75 00:03:19,530 --> 00:03:22,139 And hopefully now, I should be able to select these guys, and go... 75 76 00:03:22,164 --> 00:03:24,803 'Command-Function-F4'. 76 77 00:03:25,264 --> 00:03:26,405 And it aligns him up. 77 78 00:03:26,842 --> 00:03:29,623 So that's how you create your own custom shortcut. 78 79 00:03:30,256 --> 00:03:32,123 Start it, make a new one, give it a name. 79 80 00:03:32,233 --> 00:03:35,803 Give it a shortcut, which you'll have to probably test a few times. 80 81 00:03:35,828 --> 00:03:37,198 I know that F5 doesn't work... 81 82 00:03:37,223 --> 00:03:39,506 and a few other ones on a Mac that doesn't work. 82 83 00:03:39,819 --> 00:03:40,928 But yes, then just do stuff. 83 84 00:03:40,953 --> 00:03:44,070 Now, you can take this further, and do things like... 84 85 00:03:44,258 --> 00:03:46,335 rotate, and keep recording. 85 86 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,234 So if I go to here, and I have recorded any move... 86 87 00:03:50,445 --> 00:03:53,477 it will rotate, and you can see, it's recorded everything. 87 88 00:03:53,758 --> 00:03:56,406 So now if I stop it, and go, you, my friend... 88 89 00:03:56,431 --> 00:03:58,797 my shortcut, 'Command-Function-F4'. 89 90 00:03:59,016 --> 00:04:00,859 It moved it up, and rotated it. 90 91 00:04:01,078 --> 00:04:03,383 So if you're doing something quite repetitive... 91 92 00:04:03,492 --> 00:04:05,586 you can record it, it records everything. 92 93 00:04:06,820 --> 00:04:08,562 I want to delete these guys here. 93 94 00:04:12,615 --> 00:04:15,732 And that's going to be us, I'll save these in the Exercise Files... 94 95 00:04:15,757 --> 00:04:19,181 and you can just use mine to do a PC one, I'd love you to do it. 95 96 00:04:20,095 --> 00:04:22,744 Drop it to me, send me a message. 96 97 00:04:22,769 --> 00:04:24,775 And I'll add it to the Exercise Files. 97 98 00:04:25,430 --> 00:04:27,828 All right, I'll see you in the next video.