Apple LiveType 2 - Manual (Page 68)

68 Chapter 5 Working With Text
Enhancing Text With Styles
The Style tab in the Inspector offers four options for enhancing your text. Styles allow
you to add depth and emphasis to text—as well as to objects—mostly by altering the
space around each character.
The Shadow, Glow, Outline, and Extrude buttons in the Style tab each reveal the
settings applicable to that treatment.
Shadow and Glow
The Shadow and Glow styles are essentially two “flavors” of the same style, using
identical parameters to create quite different looks.
 Character: The character setting allows you to make the original element invisible,
isolating the style treatment in the Canvas. This can be a helpful way to eliminate
clutter as you compose your treatment, or you may choose to leave the original
element invisible in the finished product.
 Enable: The Enable checkbox allows you to turn a style on or off, without affecting
the settings you’ve established. Again, this is a helpful tool for eliminating clutter as
you design, or as you compare different styles and combinations of styles.
 Layer: The Layer pop-up menu allows you to place the shadow or glow treatment in
front of or behind the original element. The In Front Only setting restricts the shadow
or glow effect to the boundaries of the original element, without extending beyond
the edges of the letters or object.
Shadow parameters in
the Style tab of the
Inspector
Reset all
Reset Warp parameters