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Transforms as an effect

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Transforms as an effect

- [Instructor] We can also apply transformations as an effect, now effects are covered later on in this course in some detail but let's have a look at how we can use them here and the advantage is they are editable almost infinitely. So what I'm going to do is select this neon circle just here go up to the Effect menu and I'm going to come down to the Distort and Transform category and then choose Transform, and if you've watched this title sequentially you'll see there's a lot in common here with the transform each dialog. So what I'm going to do is turn on preview and I'm going to make 30 copies of this circle. Now at the moment, there are 30 copies there trust me you can't see them. So what I need to do is actually move them around, so I'm going to actually in fact if I have 30 in total, because I've already got one I'll need to do 29 just there. So what I'll do is 360 divided by 30 which I think is going to be 12 and I'm not…

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