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Shadow Tool
A very popular graphics effect is to create a soft drop- shadow under a graphic or some text. This
serves to lift the object away from the background.
The Shadow Tool lets you add a soft shadow to any object, text,
graphics or photo. Select the Shadow Tool
and just drag on the object. You can adjust the shadow blur and
transparency using InfoBar controls.
Some text with a soft shadow.
To adjust the position of an existing shadow, go into the Shadow Tool
and drag on the shadow.
Example Graphics
This is a perfect example of what can be created in Web Designer Premium. This button combines many
of the features described above - it's drawn by combining just a few feathered shapes, and using
graduated transparency (the white reflection effect). The text has a slight soft shadow and the button has
a glow shadow. The whole thing is grouped. (You do not need to draw this button as it's provided in the
Button category of the Designs Gallery
).
The huge benefit of vector graphics, compared to 'bitmap' graphics created in pixel editing software such
Photoshop, is that you can re-color, edit, rotate, and resize the button with no loss of quality. Make it
huge and it remains pin sharp:
On top of that you can re-color using the Named Color system, and it will even stretch as required -
everything in Web Designer Premium remains non-destructive (which means you can always edit it, with
no loss of quality).
Something that would take skill and time to produce using alternative graphics software, is trivially easy in
Web Designer Premium.
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