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The shadow is another ellipse with a graduated color fill and feathered (see below).
Transparency Tool
Modern browsers support advanced transparency effects, and so does Web Designer Premium. You
can adjust the transparency of any graphic or photo to make it see-through. Try it on your rectangle
example. Just select the Transparency Tool
, and adjust the large slider on the InfoBar.
More than this, Web Designer Premium supports graduated transparency. It works very like the
graduated color fill. In the Transparency Tool
just drag across your shape and you can see the transparency fades. You can adjust the degree of
transparency of each end of the fill arrow, by clicking on either end of the arrow, and adjusting the
Transparency slider.
Preview this and you'll find this works in your browser as well.
Feather
This is a graphical term for blending the edges of objects. Web Designer Premium provides a feather
control that enables any object, graphics, text or photo to be feathered - giving it a blurred edge that
blends with the background. The Feather control is not a tool on the left, but one of the controls on the
top bar. Try it on your rectangle shape. Select the shape and then click this Feather control on the right of
the top bar.
The shadow below the ball drawing above has a feathered edge. Combining all of these controls you can
very quickly produce amazing layered graphics for your website, all directly in Web Designer Premium
without needing any other graphics tools.
This is an example of a rounded rectangle
with grad color, grad transparency and
feathered edges with some text placed on
top of it.
This has a graduated color fill, light to dark
green going left to right. It also has a vertical
graduated transparency fading from top to
bottom. The feather gives it a soft edge. It
takes a couple of seconds to create such an
image, and it's automatically converted to the
right graphic when you save your web page.
In Web Designer Premium you can create
any type of graphic, photo, text with
transparency, and it 'just works'. It can also
import almost all graphics files, from Adobe
EPS, to Photoshop PSD, Camera RAW and
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