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of styled effects that you can apply to the type in your Photo
Book documents.
The Effects panel also include include bevels, drop shadows,
glows and gradients, and only work with text layers. You can
apply a text effect to an existing type layer by selecting the
type and then double-clicking the thumbnail of the effect that
you want to add. In addition, you can drag a thumbnail from
the Styles area onto the layout. This will add a text box to
the design with some sample text already applied ('Your Text
Here'). To add your own type, just click onto the sample text,
and type in the new caption.
Like Layer Styles the attributes of the text effects (size of drop
shadow, color of stroke, etc.) can be adjusted via the Edit
Layer Style option in the right-click menu. Text effects can
be removed by selecting the Clear Layer Style entry from the
right-click menu.
The Styles area of the Effects pane contain
options for adding a range of effects to the
t ype in your images by simply double - click-
ing the thumbnail entry.
Create > Effects
The Effects pane is available in the photo project workspace
in Photoshop Elements. The pane is displayed when you are
working on a project that you have created using the Photo
Book or Photo Collage options and it groups together Filters
and Layer Styles options. You will need to switch to the
Advanced Mode of the Photo Book workspace by clicking the
button in the bottom left of the screen. This action replaces the
Text tab at the top of the Create panel with the Effects option.
Layers styles add effects such as drop shadows, outer glows
and strokes to selected book objects such as framed images,
text entries and graphics.
To access the Effects section of the Create
panel you need to select the Switch to Ad-
vanced Mode button. This will replace the
Text option with the Effects.
After selecting the object in the composition, the effect is
selected from the panel and added by double-clicking the
thumbnail. When applying the effect to a framed image, you
will be warned that the frame and image will be simplified in
order to apply the effect. The simplification process converts
the frame and picture to a single layer. This removes the abil-
ity to edit the photo and frame independently.
The characteristics of the styles can be customized by
right-clicking the object and then selecting the Edit Layer
Style entry from the menu that appears. Individual style
characteristics are then altered with the controls in the Style
Settings dialog.
The Effects section also contains Filters and
Layer Styles areas. The thumbnails in each
of these areas can be applied your photos
by double-clicking the thumbnail.
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