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Using expression selectors

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Using expression selectors

Another thing I want to draw you attention to are expression selectors. When you're working with text layers you can use expression selectors to express values on a per character basis, which is really powerful. Now this isn't something we're going to get deep into here but I just want to make you aware of it, so that when you become more comfortable with expressions you know where to come. So what we're going to do, first of all, is just open up this text layer. And I'm going to go into the text layer and create a scale value. So I'm just going to adjust the scale value. So let's adjust the scale up to about 160%. Now if I go to Add >Selector, notice there's an Expression selector. And if I click on that, notice it automatically scales my letters up one at a time. Okay, so you can clearly see that it's happening on a per character basis. Now, if we have a look at the expression, slightly odd, it doesn't look like there's an expression, because the value's not in red. But if you open…

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