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I'm just going to whiz through the remaining effects here because I think you've probably got the idea by now and it's just a question of going through, playing with the settings, to see how they work. So, let me select this Starburst here and I'll pull down the Effects Menu and choose Bevel and Emboss. There we go, you can see that 3D Bevel look. This one has different options here. A lot of them are the same but you can see that we have three techniques here. We've got Smooth, Chisel Hard, and it looks really chisely hard, that's slightly softer, it's hard to tell the difference but there is when you select it. But I think the Smooth normally looks pretty good. You can change the direction coming up or down to give it a different effect. Play with the Depth and of course, change the Size, et cetera. I'll turn that one off and turn on Satin. I don't know why they call it Satin. It never really looks like Satin to me, it looks very similar to the Inner Shadow, but again you can play around with the options there, Inverting it, and see how it effects your graphics. It'll work differently in different graphics so only by experimentation are you going to be able to really get to know these. I'm going to Cancel out of here and I'm going to look at another option here, which is the basic Feather. Now if I select this box here Ð I'm just going to make it a little bit bigger like this and I'm going to take the Stroke off it, and I've lost my Panels here. That's okay. I can come up and just hit zero for No Stroke, and I'll go to my Effects and choose a basic Feather, like that. And this is a really nice feature that I like using. You can feather something like this into the background. As you increase the Width you can just see how it feathers in there, and sometimes that combined with a Transparency makes a nice background to any box that you've got text on top of. Cancel out of there, go back and look at Directional Feather. It's basically the same thing but you can do it from different directions. At the moment we've got our Chain Link here so everything's locked, but if I put it in there like that you can see how it's feathering in from all sides. Let's move it back to zero. I'll turn this lock off and we can just do the sides. I can move the left side in for a feather, and the right side in for a feather, and there you can see that the top and bottom remain the same. Just Cancel out so we can select another object, and this time I'll just zoom out a little bit more and we'll do some feathering on our robot friend here. I'm going to select him, pull down the Menu and we'll do the Gradient Feather and that's where it can blend out like this from side to the other. I really like this one. Let's say we wanted to blend in from top to bottom, I'd just change the Angle down here, like that, and here we've got what is really representing the Mask, Solid, that would be the top, back to nothing, down here at the bottom, but we can adjust it. We can adjust the Center Point. If I move it towards there you can see how it feathers out a little bit more. We've got a guy with a Trash Can down there below, you'd probably want to hide him out and then just move this smoothly like that and it feathers out. If we wanted to come in from the angle here like this, drag this out Ð oh, I've got the wrong angle. I really want him feathering from the other side Ð like that, there we can kind of take the lock off and then just adjust the Center Point, or the Blending Point is probably more accurate, like that and I really like the Gradient Feather. It's a great way to blend the foreground object or text into the background. Let me Cancel out of here and then we'll just show you a last thing. If you want to get rid of the effect you can pull down this Menu Ð sorry. I didn't have anything with an effect selected Ð I'll select this plane here, it's got the Drop Shadow, and if it had other effects, too, we could just go Clear All Effects. It's got a Transparency here, we can choose Clear Transparency, but I guess I didn't leave it on there. I Cancelled out, that's why it doesn't have it, but you would clear the Transparency from there. If you have nothing selected and you have Transparencies or Effects on the page you can just select that option to clear everything on the page. Oh! One more tip. Let me just bring up my Essentials here, and the one thing that I want to show you before we leave this is Layers. Now I've got two Layers here, I've got the Background and then everything else on it. If you're dealing with objects with Shadows, Transparencies, any effects like this, my recommendation is to take all your text, create a New Layer, and move text up above anything with Transparencies. Or, if you have text with Transparencies on it, move the text, where possible, up onto an additional Layer. There used to be huge problems with InDesign in the earlier versions where you'd have all sorts of print problems. Most of those have been solved at this stage, but why take chances? Go ahead, put your text on a top layer if at all possible, above anything with Transparencies or Special Effects.