- [Instructor] There are also effects that you can add
to text and graphics to really work in your favor.
In this case, this text is getting a little lost up here,
so what I can do is I can select it.
And, again, right over here,
under Appearance I can change the appearance.
Sure, I can make it transparent, whatever the case may be,
but in this case I want to add a drop shadow
just to make this stand out more.
In fact, I never go with a black drop shadow.
I usually tint it a color.
So we'll just tint it this dark blue.
And not only that, we can increase the opacity, right?
So I can make it more opaque.
You can see that happening.
And then what about the spread?
Well, right down here, this is the offset, the X and Y.
So, if I just go ahead and move that off to the side,
you can see how that goes.
Pressing the up and down arrows,
I can make sure that's zero.
The Y, I can make that zero.
The B is going to be the blur effect.
So how much of a blur do I want for this?
So I'm changing this from a shadow to essentially a glow
just to make this sort of stand out more.
And that looks pretty good.
Now, I'm going to go beyond that as well.
So check this out, I absolutely love this.
What I'm thinking is what I'd like to do
is really make this logo stand out more as well.
So, I'm just going to increase the size
of the logo a little bit.
Increasing the size.
And I'm going to draw an ellipse, okay,
because I'm going to put this ellipse actually
behind that logo, okay, 'cause I want to create a blur effect.
So, whatever shape you have selected,
with it selected you can go down here to Background Blur.
So turning that on and turning off the border,
you can see that it's going to blur out
whatever it is on top of.
So this is really fantastic.
I'm going to go to my layers panel.
I'm going to make sure this Ellipse is underneath
what is actually just called Group.
There we go, just underneath that Logo_white.
Doesn't really matter in this case,
but I could move this over and position it accordingly
and make it a little smaller like that.
Not only that, I can make it less blurry or more blurry,
and I can brighten or darken it.
So now I can make this a little darker like that.
And now I can read Colorado Fourteeners much easier,
all using that nice Background Blur underneath Appearance.
And lastly, you'll notice that I'm adding these
appearance effects, if you will,
to make sure the content stands out.
I'm not just adding it just to make it look pretty.
It's really for legibility purposes.