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Adobe is giving you and I the power now to have more control over special effects that we apply to our objects and this includes something known as a Live Effect. And really the word "live" you won't find anywhere up here at all. It simply means in effect that you can come back to, at any time, whether you save the document or not, and change how that effect is applied. So we can add a drop shadow, we can add a glow, we can add a blur, we can do all kinds of stuff to this object here and always go back to it in the Appearance Panel. So I'm going to go ahead and hide the Graphic Styles for now. We don't really need this at the moment. Let me just expand this so we can see all the things that we have applied to our shape so far. So we have all these strokes in various positions, we have fills, and what we're going to do now is click on the star and then I'm going to go to my Effect menu and I can choose any of these Illustrator effects here. I can put a warp on there, I can put a stylize on there, I can rasterize, and more and more. So what I'm going to do in this example is, I think, I will put a little bit of a Pucker and Bloat on this star and I'll preview it. So let's go ahead and bloat it a little bit and we can create this kind of cool, you know, sixties thing going, so you can just move it around like this, and have your own light show. Now you can have somebody else playing the music, and you get to sit by your computer and do this all day while everybody else is getting their dance on. All right? So, I'm going to go ahead and do this kind of like sixties flower thing like this and how do I know about the Sixties? I was there. Believe it or not. So, I'm going to go ahead and click OKay and you'll notice in the Appearance Panel is this Pucker and Bloat. How cool is that? So I'm going to de-select this thing. Let's make believe it's tomorrow, and I'm like, Wow. I really want to go the other way with this shape. I want to Pucker it. I don't want to Bloat it. So I'm going to double click and look at this! The panel reappears, which means you're never stuck with the effect. Now we can go ahead and Pucker it. click OKay, and we've just changed this live effect. And, there's more! We can even click on this object and apply another effect that we have full control over. So. I can go back to an effect, and let me go ahead to like Stylize, and I will put on here an outer glow and let's see here. I'm going to put it on normal and I'm going to change the color to this bright green and I'm going to preview that. See what it looks like. And we'll wait just a couple of seconds because it's a complicated shape and Illustrator has a thing about it. So, here is the glow. You can barely see it. Let me go ahead and increase the size just a little bit and this is really going to drive the Illustrator a little bit crazy, so it's going to apply this massive blur to this shape. And we'll just give it a moment or two. You'll find in other lessons that sometimes turning Preview off while you work is a great idea because Preview, of course, while you're working on things such as Bevel and Extrusion, can slow your computer down quite a bit when you're constantly trying to tweak things. So, we'll go ahead and give this a Gauzian blur a moment to apply itself to this shape, and it'll be done in just a moment. And there it is. We have this really soft ah glow on our object and in a moment it's going to give us another dialog box I believe and then it's going to add that effect to our parent panel, so we'll give that a moment and in the meantime I could just move my mouse and bounce this progress ball around our shape as we wait. I think I went a little bit too far with the number I put in there, and it'll be done in just a moment. See. I'm very ambitious. I, I think big. And I just think, you know, I'm going to go all out and try to take over the planet instead of trying to take over a city block. So it's going to be done in just a few moments. Okay. The effect is now done, and I am waiting for it to appear, and here it is. Outer Glow. Outer Glow has been added to our Appearance Panel and if we don't want this, or we want to change it, of course, we can double click on it, or we can drag it right to the garbage can if we no longer wish to have it applied to our object in the case of the time that it took to render. So, once again, you can add effects which we will call live effects because at any time you can go backwards in time and change the effect whether you save it now or you save it today, tomorrow and come back to it a week from now to change it, it's always live and you can apply the effects to your shape over and over again. You can add new effects and you can also delete them if you so desire.