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Animating scale

Animating scale

The last of the five transforms is Scale, basically resizing. So, what we are going to do is open up the Sun and go ahead and press S for Scale. So, as you can see here, we can click and drag this up or down, or in other words, to the right, we can increase in Scale. So, now, for example, it would be 241% of its original size. We can also drag it to the left to make this smaller than it initially was. So, this is 45% of its original size. Typically, you would not want to increase an object or a layer above 100% unless you know what you are doing. In the case of Illustrator files, and this is part of the magic of why it's so important to work with Illustrator in After Effects, but when you are working with Illustrator files, you can scale them up beyond 100% and it still remains crisp. That's part of the relationship between After Effects and Illustrator and the nature of Illustrator itself. So, I am going to change this;. Just click in here and type 100%. Now, you will notice that…

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