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• Ready-to-use Styles
Choose various filter effects, glows, shadows, textures, and materials
from the Styles tab. Customize the preset styles or store your own!
• Photo-based borders
Exciting new ready-to-go borders can be applied around text frames,
tables and pictures alike. Create and save custom borders from your
own electronic border designs or scanned picture frames! The Gallery
tab's Picture frames have the same borders already applied.
• Transparency
Add transparency to your backgrounds, text frames, tables, shapes and
text to achieve a truly professional look. As with color fills, you can
apply solid, gradient, and bitmap transparencies—even create bitmap
transparencies from your own image collection.
• Filter Effects
Apply eye-catching Filter Effects to make your images and text really
stand out. Easily add shadows, glows, bevels, blurs, reflections,
outlines, feathering, or embossing effects and alter the flexible settings
for exactly the right look—your original object remains intact and
editable if you change your mind! Use the Shadow Tool for on-the-
page control of basic or skewed drop shadows.
• Astounding 3D Lighting and Surface Effects
Advanced algorithms bring flat shapes to life! Choose one or more
effects, then vary surface and multiple colored light source properties.
Start with a pattern or a function, adjust parameters for incredible
surface contours, textures, fills— realistic-looking wood, water, skin,
marble and much more. Combine 3D transparency and Reflection
Maps for realistic glass-like effects on non-reflective/reflective
surfaces.
• Instant 3D
Transform your artistic text and shapes into impressive 3D objects
directly on the page! Apply multiple colored lighting effects (with
directional control), along with custom bevel and lathe effect profiles
to create your very own unique contours.
• Connector Tools
Easily design organizational charts, family trees and other diagrams—
connectors will link your boxes, circles, or other shapes together, with
links being maintained during any object repositioning.
