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Moving the anchor point

Moving the anchor point

In the next movie, we're going to look at how to adjust the size of a clip and also how to rotate it, but before we get to those properties, we need to talk about the anchor point of a layer, because all transformations happen around the anchor point. Now, here we have a layered Photoshop file that I've imported and there are tons of layers. We're actually looking for the Sun layer, which is on the third track. The Sun clip actually is on the third track. So go ahead and select that. Now, the way that I typically adjust most properties, as I mentioned before that I don't usually use the rubber band all that often, I'd like to go to the Effect Controls panel. It's where we adjust effects, but it's also where we have control over our clips as well. Now, if you open up the Opacity area, you'll see the Opacity property. We could just simply click and scrub left and right to adjust the opacity for a layer. We could actually manually type in a value too. So I could say 46.6%. So, we have a…

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