Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 18)

INDESIGN CS3
User Guide
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Adobe Labs
Adobe Labs gives you the opportunity to experience and evaluate new and emerging technologies and products from
Adobe.
At Adobe Labs, you have access to resources such as these:
• Prerelease software and technologies
• Code samples and best practices to accelerate your learning
• Early versions of product and technical documentation
• Forums, wiki-based content, and other collaborative resources to help you interact with like-minded developers
Adobe Labs fosters a collaborative software development process. In this environment, customers quickly become
productive with new products and technologies. Adobe Labs is also a forum for early feedback, which the Adobe
development teams use to create software that meets the needs and expectations of the community.
Visit Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/labs .
User communities
User communities feature forums, blogs, and other avenues for users to share technologies, tools, and information.
Users can ask questions and find out how others are getting the most out of their software. User-to-user forums are
available in English, French, German, and Japanese; blogs are posted in a wide range of languages.
To participate in forums or blogs, visit www.adobe.com/communities .
What’s new
Creativity enhancements
Creative effects
Experiment with designs right on the page layout with Adobe Photoshop®-like effects. You can experiment with
blending modes, opacity, and other effects without permanently altering your objects. And you can save effects as
part of an object style for easy reuse and sharing.
Take advantage of these new creative effects:
Gradient feather effect Fade an object into the background by way of an adjustable linear or radial gradient.
Directional feather effect Enhance feathering by customizing the feather angle and the amount of feathering on
each side.
Bevel and Emboss effect Add inner highlights and shadows that create a relief effect.
Satin effect Apply interior shading that creates a satin-like finish.
Inner Shadow effect Add a shadow that falls just inside the edges of the object’s content, giving the object a recessed
appearance.
Inner Glow and Outer Glow effects Add glows that emanate from the inside and outside edges of an object.
See “Transparency effects” on page 395.