From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery

Three out of the hundred custom shortcuts - Illustrator Tutorial

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Three out of the hundred custom shortcuts

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- [Instructor] All right, 100 new and remapped keyboard shortcuts is a lot, which is why I'm including these four PDF documents so that you can walk through them, figure out which ones you like, don't like, and so forth. What I want to do in this movie is just discuss three of them, so you have a sense for where I'm coming from. So here I am inside the Illustrator Mac defaults document, and so these are the default shortcuts that ship along with Illustrator. And I want to call your attention to three commands that live in the Object, Envelope Distort sub menu, starting with Make with Top Object, which, again by default, is set to Command + Option + C on the Mac, Control + Alt + C on the PC. A second one Make with Mesh is set to Command + Option + M or Control + Alt + M on the PC, and then for the third one, you have to switch to page four right here. Notice, Make with Warp is set to mash your fist W, so Command + Shift + Option + W on the Mac, Control + Shift + Alt + W on a PC. And to get a sense for what that looks like, I'll go ahead and switch back to Illustrator, and I'll go up to the Object menu and choose Keyboard Shortcuts in order to bring up that custom Keyboard Shortcuts dialogue box, and I'll switch the Set back to Illustrator Defaults, which you can do anytime you like, and I'll click OK. And now I'll advance to the second artboard, so we can see this table right here, and I'll select the Ellipse Tool from the Shape Tool fly-out menu. And now, I'll go ahead and draw an ellipse over this table like so, and then I'll switch back to the black arrow tool, which you can get by pressing the V key. I'll marquee these objects right here, and then I'll go to the Object menu, choose Envelope Distort, and you can see that we have these three commands with these keyboard shortcuts. The one I'm looking for is Make with Top Object, which is probably the best of the bunch, and we end up getting this text that looks like it's mapped onto a blip, which is great in so far as it goes, but it's not necessarily the kind of thing I need on a regular basis, and so I'm going to undo that change, and I'll show you what I came up with instead. I'll, in fact, undo that ellipse as well, and I'll go ahead and switch back to my PDF documents. And what I did was I mapped all three of those shortcuts to different commands. So Command + Option + C, or Control + Alt + C on the PC, I set to show or hide the corner widgets, and I'll show you why I did that in just a moment. Command + Option + M, or Control + Alt + M on a PC I set to Trim View, and then finally I set mash your fist W to Effect, which is a dynamic effect, Warp, Arc, and that's the one we're going to start with. And so I'll switch back to Illustrator again, I'll go ahead and marquee this table-like thing right here, and I'll group it by going to the Object menu and choosing the Group command, or, of course, you have that default shortcut of Control + G, or Command + G on the Mac. Now I'll go to the Effect menu, which provides you access with dynamic editable effects, I'll choose Warp and notice that none of these options have keyboard shortcuts by default. And so I'll press that shortcut for the Keyboard Shortcuts command, which is mash your fist K, and I'll change the Set to dekekeys Illustrator Win right here. Ignore the test file, that's just a test I've been running in the background, and now I'll click OK. At which point you can see, if I go to the Effect menu, and choose Warp that the very first command has a keyboard shortcut of, again, Control + Shift + Alt + W for Warp, Command + Shift + Option + W on the Mac. And the beauty of this is not that this is a beautiful effect, but that I can change the style anytime I like, so if I want the text to bulge outward as if it's mapped onto a cylinder, I can choose Bulge, I can change the amount on the fly, so I'll take that down, let's say, to 20%, and I could go with a kind of Inflate effect if I wanted to produce something along the lines of what we saw before. And again, I want to emphasize that this effect is infinitely editable, at which point, I'll click OK to accept that change. All right, another option is to just go ahead and draw a rectangle just again, for the sake of demonstration here. And then if I switch to the white arrow tool or just press the A key, then I can see those corner widgets right there. Let's say, though, that I want to temporarily hide them, then I can go to the View menu, and try to find this command, Hide Corner Widget, which isn't necessarily impossible to find, it's just that there's an awful lot going on in this menu. So having that keyboard shortcut of Control + Alt + C, or Command + Option + C allows me to turn the widgets off for a moment, and then if I want to bring them back, I just press that shortcut again, Control + Alt + C, or Command + Option + C on the Mac. And then finally, I'll go ahead and switch to this document, which contains all these objects that are extending not only well outside the artboard, but outside the red bleed boundary as well. And so I find it very helpful at times to be able to view the trimmed version of the artwork by going to the View menu, and choosing Trim View, or better yet, if you load a dekekeys, you have a keyboard shortcut of Control + Alt + M, or Command + Option + M on the Mac. And then, if you want to escape the trim view and bring the objects back, all you have to do is press that keyboard shortcut again. And then as we saw in the previous movie, I created that related keyboard shortcut for the presentation mode of just Control + M. or Command + M on the Mac, which allows us to see the artwork without the interface. And those are three out of the 100 or so keyboard shortcuts that I've remapped, and the reasons I did so here inside Illustrator.

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