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• Transparency
Add transparency to your backgrounds, text frames, tables, shapes and
text to achieve a truly professional look. As with colour 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 coloured 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 coloured 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.
• Stunning logos and flas hes
Use the Gallery tab for a range of pre-designed ready-to-go logos and
flas hes—alternatively, create from scratch in LogoStudio or base your
design on existing PagePlus objects! Use flashes for advertising on
your website, on a poster, or a greetings card.
• Photo-based borders
Exciting new ready-to-go borders can be applied around text frames,
tables and pictures alike. Create and save custom borders! The Gallery
tab's Picture frames have the same borders already applied.
