Welcome 9
• 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.
• Joining object outlines
Combine QuickShapes, drawn shapes and artistic text together to
create more complex outlined objects, which can still be edited
further. Use Add, Subtract, Intersect, and Exclude to produce
different and exciting results.
• 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.
• Intelligent Color Schemes
Choose from dozens of preset color schemes to change the overall
appearance of your site with a single click. Use Color Scheme
Designer to design your very own custom color schemes using
spreads based on accepted color theory (Monochromatic,
Complementary, Triadic, and more). Pick a starting base color and
choose from a range of suggested and related colors—select
individually or populate colors automatically for a new scheme.
• New 2D/3D Filter Effects
Add stunning reflections of an object—great for web page titles and
pictures! Blur any object or stroke a colored solid or gradient border
around object edges (stroke with a new Contour fill which applies
gradient fill from the inner to outer outline width). 3D effects are
boosted with realistic glass-like Transparency control of non-
reflective/reflective surfaces and multiple separately colored lights for
dramatic lighting effects. All filter effects can be applied in preview
mode or to the object on the page. Use the new Shadow Tool for on-
the-page shadow control.
