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Linking graphic animations together with expressions

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Linking graphic animations together with expressions

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- Once you know how to use expressions to tie graphic elements together, I'll bet you'll have a hard time building an infographic without them. Let me show you what I mean. Okay, now before we start our project, I think we should play back our animations so we can see what were dealing with. I'm gonna move my current time indicator back to the beginning of my timeline and just press the spacebar to begin playback. And you can see I have two groups of lines that are just kind of scaling up in the scene. And what I want them to do is actually make the background snow. So with each additional growth, it's gonna can create thicker and thicker snow. So we're actually going to link the scale change of these bars to the amount of snow in the scene. And you can press home on your keyboard or just drag your current time indicator back to the beginning of the timeline to go and make sure you're on frame zero. Let's start by adding an adjustment layer. I'll go to layer, new, adjustment layer…

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