diff --git a/spec.json b/spec.json
index e248b366..72692ea3 100644
--- a/spec.json
+++ b/spec.json
@@ -21706,7 +21706,7 @@
                 }
               },
               "padding": {
-                "description": "How much to pad the view frame by.",
+                "description": "How much to pad the view frame by, as a fraction of the object(s) bounding box size. Negative padding will crop the view of the object proportionally. e.g. padding = 0.2 means the view will span 120% of the object(s) bounding box, and padding = -0.2 means the view will span 80% of the object(s) bounding box.",
                 "type": "number",
                 "format": "float"
               },