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You can save a particular combination of settings for Live Filters by creating a custom Live Filter. All custom live filters appear in the Add Filters pop-up menu in the Properties Inspector, and also in the Styles panel. Notice if I select one of my objects on my canvas, and then open up the Add Live Filters dialog here, there's a Custom 1, underneath my Options setting, and that'll add a Custom Live Filter, composed of a drop shadow, and add noise, and an inner bevel. The Add Noise has an amount of 10, and the Drop Shadow has these settings applied to it. Custom Live Filters are actually Styles with all the Properties options deselected except for the filter option, so we can see these custom filters in my Styles panel, the very bottom here. Notice if I roll my mouse over that last chip there, it says Custom 1, that's the custom filter, and apply that custom filter by selecting another object, and then double-clicking on my style there in the Styles panel. Notice that I get the Edit Style dialog, and the Effect option that's selected. Everything else is deselected, so that means that this is actually a style that's composed of a single effect. Actually it can more than one effect in this case. click OK. Notice that now both of those objects have the exact same styling applied to them, which consists of those three Live Filters. Using the Styles panel here you can remove or rename these custom live filters. Notice if I double-click on it, I can change my name from Custom 1 to something maybe more descriptive: Drop Shadow Noise, or Noise 10 would be even more descriptive. click OK. The name changes here also in my Properties Inspector, there's my new name, Drop Shadow Noise 10 where I can easily apply that custom filter to the next object. That's a great way of converting all of the menu buttons here, so they looked the same, so they consist of a unified navigation system there, like so. Notice all of those now look the same. To create a Custom Live Filter using the Styles panel, you apply live filter settings to selected objects and then from the upper right-hand corner here, select New, Styles. Let's go ahead and do that. Let's remove all the styles from this first button in my navigation bar, and now let's Add New Style, so that, let's add a blur, a Gaussian blur like so, really make that blurry, and let's also add an Adjust Color. Better yet, let's go ahead and add a Bevel and Emboss outer bevel, and increase that, so it's very distinctive, like so. And now from the Styles panel, choose New Style. Let's give it a name. Make sure the Effects option is the only one selected. You'll notice that styles can consist of fill types and colors, stroke types and colors, as well as text attributes there, so let's just go ahead and select the Effect option. Now let's name this Bevel Blur. You might want to also put the amount of bevel and blur there to give it a very descriptive name. click OK. Notice that it gets added to my Styles panel. To create a Custom Live Filter using the Properties Inspector, it's the same procedure. Go ahead and add the Live Filters that you want to constitute the custom filter to your object. In this case let's do an Inner Glow like so, and also a Noise. This time let's increase the Noise to 100 so it looks different, and now from the Add Live Filters button there choose Options, Save as Style; let's give this a Noise 100, Inner, Bevel. Make sure that the Effect option is the only one selected. click OK. Now I made a mistake with the name. That should actually be Inner glow. That's not a problem because I can go back up here to the Styles panel. There's my new style, double-click on it. Instead of Inner Bevel, let's change that to Inner Glow and make it more accurate. click OK. Now you'll notice that in addition here, in the Styles panel, my new custom style that I created here in the Properties Inspector will also be available here in my Add Filter menu, right below my Drop Shadow, Noise, 10, I have my Noise, 100, Inner Glow. You'll notice that the style that I added up here in the Styles panel is not present here in the Properties Inspector, so I usually add my custom styles here in the Properties Inspector instead of the Styles panel, so I have them available in both locations. However, You can only delete these Custom Filters here in the Styles panel. Go ahead and select the Style and then press the Trash can icon there, or the Delete Style button. It'll prompt you, do you want to delete the selected styles? And then click OK and it'll remove it, both here from the Styles Panel, also from the Properties Inspector. Notice that last custom live effect is now gone there from the Add Filters menu here. So there you have how to create your own Custom Live Filters. It'll also wrap up this section of the tutorial on working with Live Filters. In this section you've learned how to apply bevel, emboss, drop shadow, and blur filters. You've learned how to work with Photoshop filters and plug-ins, how to apply Photoshop layer effects, and how to create custom live filters. Let me now move on to the next section of the tutorial on pages, layers and masks.