User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
Shadow effects
In Canvas, when you apply a shadow to text, the shadow is a separate object that you can color, edit,
and apply effects to independently of the original text object. By applying the right combination of
effects, you can achieve oblique shadows and other lighting effects.
Since Canvas creates a separate object for the shadow, changes to the original text object do not
change the shadow. Finalize text before applying shadows to ensure that the text is the same for both
objects.
To create a shadow:
1. Select the text objects to which you want to apply shadows.
2. Choose Effects | Shadow to open the Shadow dialog box.
3. Specify Object or Image. Image activates the Image Options area.
4. Specify the offset amounts as well as a color for the shadow.
5. In the Image Options area, specify Gaussian Blur, mode, resolution, and anti-alias.
6. Canvas creates the shadows and arranges them behind the original text objects.
Text shadow effects
Combine Canvas effects to create different types of shadows.
An object shadow, slightly offset and shaded black.
A black image shadow, slightly offset with Gaussian Blur
The shadow object was skewed to create an oblique shadow.
This example consists of three objects: the original text object, a slightly offset shadow, and an
oblique shadow.
This example consists of three objects: the original text object, a slightly offset shadow object, and a
duplicated shadow object. The duplicate has been flipped, skewed, and filled with a gradient ink.
Envelope text effects
Use the Envelope effect to warp and distort type to create new character forms and stretch text like
rubber. When you apply this effect to a text object, you can drag selection handles to reshape text.
Depending on the type of envelope, text stretches in different ways. Using this effect, add
perspective to text or simulate stretching type around a 3-D object (see "Enveloping objects" on page
384 for more information about the Envelope effect).
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