[? bell tone ?] [Deep Dive: Applying Effects: Stylize Effects with Mat Helme]

This next effect helps us stylize our objects or text.

We're able to feather, add an inner and outer glow,

set rounded corners, and apply Scribble effect.

Let's take a look at some examples.

Our first style is the Drop Shadow effect which you can see in this example.

The drop shadow simply applies a drop shadow to the object—

whether it be an object or text.

In this case, it's text.

So let's apply drop shadow to the text on the left

and take a look at the options the Drop Shadow effect offers.

So lets unlock our layer, drop shadow, and select the text on the left,

and we'll go to effect, stylize, and select drop shadow.

Now from here we're able to apply different modes to the drop shadow.

Let's go ahead and select normal.

Then we have the opacity—let's bump this up to 100.

And this is the x-offset, so this pushes it right.

Let me go ahead and hit preview.

You can see it's pushed right 7 points.

So let's bring that down to 0.

And then the y-offset, which pushes it down in this case—

and if we go negative, it will go above the text.

And then we have blur, which is at 5 point.

So let's bring the y-offset down to 3—

and then the blur—let's bring that rate down to 0.

And for our color—let's select a dark gray.

And you can see now we have this 3D effect by using the drop shadow.

Pretty cool!

So let's select okay—and that's the Drop Shadow effect.

Next let's take a look at the Feather effect.

Now the Feather effect simply does that—

it feathers out the outside of the object, thus leaving it transparent.

And when you select the object on the left and we apply a Feather effect—

stylize feather—and you can see we can change the radius of the feather option.

So the higher it is, the more feathered the object becomes.

And that is the Stylized Feather effect.

And next we have a similar effect which is called the inner glow—

which does that—it applies an inner glow to the object—

similar to the feather but the feather, remember, makes it transparent,

and the inner glow simply applies a color.

So let's select the text on the left and let's go to add new effect, stylize, inner glow—

and make sure our preview is on—

and that looks a bit like the feather and that's because our background's white

and our color is white, so again, we have our mode option—let's make that normal.

And let's change the color to black—

and now it has that sunken-in look.

And we have the option of the opacity—if we drop that it gets a little lighter—

and our blur—right now it's looking pretty pixelated.

So if we drop the point it looks a little bit sharper—let's leave it at 4 point—

and by default it puts it to the edge.

So the inner glow right now is around the whole edge of the text.

But if we do center, it then applies it to the center,

and we can play around with the different options.

And that's the inner glow.

Next up we have outer glow, which is just the opposite.

It applies to the outside of the object.

So if we select the text on the left and say if we wanted to make this glow a dark green,

we can do that.

So we go to effect, stylize, outer glow—

and we want a darker green, so let's go to normal and select dark green,

preview on, bump the opacity up, drop down the point—

we'll bring it to 4—and now you see we have this dark green.

Next up we have round corners, and this is really cool for when we're creating—

say, a bunch of buttons, and we want to apply a rounded corner on each one of the buttons

but we don't want to use the Rounded Rectangle tool.

We can simply use the Rectangle tool.

If I select the rectangle on the left and apply the stylize rounded corners,

I'm able to give it a specific radius—let's bring this up to 20—select okay—

and now when I re-size this, it keeps that continuous effect across the whole rectangle.

Whereas if I was to use the Rounded Rectangle tool and then stretch the width,

you can see the corner radius doesn't stay the same—it actually stretches—

so by using the Rectangle tool and applying this effect to it,

we are able to re-size it without changing the corner radius—it stays consistent.

And finally we have the Scribble effect—which does just that.

It makes the object look like it's scribbled.

So let's select the text on the left and let's select stylize scribble—

and we have a bunch of options here.

And this is definitely one of those effects that you're going to want to play around with.

So right now our setting is at default, but we have these presets, where—

we have child-like scribble, dense, loose, sketch, tight, and a bunch more.

Let's select preview on—and you can see the child-like scribble is pretty intense.

So let's get a sharp scribble—and again—

this is going to be one of those effects you're going to want to play around with.

And those are the Stylize effects.