Styles are a versatile way to add unique looks to shapes and text (and even photos) in your composition. Today we explored the capabilities in depth, including the impressive gradient tool.

Styles

• Fill command, including solid and very cool gradients
• Stroke, including lines and dashes
• Inner and Outer Shadows, including how to turn a shadow into a glow, or make double shadows
• Saving Styles as presets

Shapes

• All the different shapes
• How shapes inherit previous styles
• Some tricks for getting around the “can't make a new shape because I'm editing one” annoyance
• Custom shapes and how to modify them

Text

• Creating text from scratch
• Font, Alignment, etc. control
• Using a text template to start
• Creating your own templates (and limitations with Styles)
• Converting Text to Shapes or Pixels
• Limitations of the distorting text

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