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Controlling layers with a numeric keypad

Controlling layers with a numeric keypad - After Effects Tutorial

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Controlling layers with a numeric keypad

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- Besides being useful for just quickly selecting layers, your external number pad or your extended keyboard can take advantage of additional shortcuts that can be quite useful. Let's go ahead here and select the dollar sign. And if I use the plus key, you'll see that it's rotating the element, in this case in one degree increments. If I add the Shift key, it now jumps in 10 degree increments. So that's quite useful. If we hold down the Alt key, it's adjusting scale. The plus key gets bigger. The minus key gets smaller. The next time you want to quickly tweak a layer, whether it be its scale or rotation property, try that plus or minus key out on your numeric keypad. Remember, the option modifier key might be necessary, but this will give you subtle or more dramatic transformations by adding the Shift key.

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