in today's tutorial I have an absolute gem to share with you where I'm going to
reveal the best time-saving function in Adobe Illustrator let's jump right into
the tutorial and waste no more time so the time saving function can be found
here under window at actions in the actions panel you will see a list of
actions displayed for you these are shortcuts for certain processes however
the really cool thing is that you can record and save your own processes these
can be used later for shortcuts and to save time most like a keyboard shortcut
but way more in-depth and of course they're customizable you will soon see
just how important and crucial desire for saving time with the ability firstly
click the fly down menu and make a new action for the first example I will make
an action preset for a specific document setup say for example when I'm designing
a flyer so give it a relevant name and then if you want to you can give it a
keyboard shortcut as well and also a color code then you simply hit the
record button and you should notice the red icon letting you know the
illustrator is now recording your every move now I'm going to create a new
document with very specific measurements in size that I might want for a leaflet
in the future I will use two different artboards and also other settings that I
want to use in a leaflet later down the line once I've created the document I
just head back over to the actions panel and hit the stop recording button now
when I close the document and bring up the actions panel all I ever have to do
is click the leaflet design action and the very same document will open now how
cool is that and it's obviously really useful for time-saving I'm going to show
you next and even cooler and more efficient way of using the actions panel
for saving time
imagine you have a folder with a bunch of different AI documents in it but you
want to save all of these documents to jpg now normally that would take quite a
lot of time to perform and let's be honest is quite a hassle however we can
use the actions panel to vastly speed up the process so let's go add a new
function for saving a JPEG like before add a relevant name and then hit record
I will go up to file and then choose the safer web option all the while the
action panel is recording my every move I will say the JPEG as I would any other
time normally at my workflow and then once that's been completed I will stop
the recording in the action panel you can now see that the saved JPEG action
has been created here is the folder of the 4ai documents that I want to save as
JPEGs in a super quicktime process in the actions panel with the saved JPEG
action highlighted clicking the fly down menu and head down to batch in the first
option we can choose the folder in which we want to apply the action to so I
would choose the folder on my desktop with his AR documents then we just turn
off the override functions here and choose a destination folder for the
saved JPEGs
so now when I click okay illustrator will go into the folder and save all the
documents within it as a jpg copy
finally you will notice that all of my JPEGs have been saved onto the desktop
for some reason but yeah you just need to play around with the settings in the
actions panel and of course start saving time in your workflow I hope you can see
just how you saw an awesome it can be to utilize the actions panel for your
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