Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 230)

230 Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Projects
Shapes
This category contains pre-made shapes that you can use either as visual elements or
as image masks. Each shape is a Bezier shape and can be further customized using
Motion’s shape editing tools. For more information about editing shapes and masks,
see “
Using Shapes and Masks ” on page 997.
Gradients
The Gradients category contains gradient presets that you can use in the gradient
editor found in particle system emitters and cells, as well as in text objects and shapes.
Motion comes with a collection of gradient presets, but you can also save your own
custom gradients created with any gradient editor.
Fonts and LiveFonts
Fonts and LiveFonts that are installed on your computer appear in these categories.
Fonts are organized into subcategories based on the categories of fonts you define in
the Font Book application. For more information about Font Book, see Mac Help in the
Finder Help menu.
You can use the font categories to preview the fonts that are available on your
computer. You can also drag fonts and LiveFonts onto text objects to change the
typeface they use. For more information about using fonts with text objects, see “
Using
the Library Font Preview ” on page 576.
Text Styles
Text styles are presets that can be applied to text objects in your project to instantly
change their style parameters. These style parameters include face, outline, glow, and
drop shadow parameters. Dragging a text style onto a text object instantly applies that
style to the text.
For more information on text styles, see “ Editing Text Style ” on page 590.
Shape Styles
Shape styles are presets that can be applied to shapes and paint strokes to instantly
change their style parameters. Dragging a shape style onto a shape instantly applies
that style to the shape.
For more information on shape styles, see “ Saving Shapes and Shape Styles ” on
page 1082.
Music and Photos
These categories allow you to browse for and import audio files directly from your
iTunes library and image files directly from your iPhoto library. The Music subcategories
that appear in the Motion Library are playlists created in iTunes. The Photos
subcategories are albums created in iPhoto. The contents of each library, album, or
playlist appear in the file stack.