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panel's Clear Appearance icon to clear all attributes in the shape you're about to
draw (including Illustrator's default black stroke and white fill attributes). Gordon
first drew the outline of the water with the Pen tool and then gave the path a medi-
um-blue fill. To accentuate the shoreline, he applied a dark Inner Glow effect. To do
this he opened the Appearance panel and clicked on the Fill attribute. Then from
the
fx
icon in the Appearance panel he chose Stylize> Inner Glow. In the Inner
Glow dialog, he changed the Mode to Multiply, set Opacity to 70%, and adjusted the
Blur to 0.05 inches (for the width of the vignette edge), making sure the Edge op-
tion was enabled. To finish the glow, he clicked the dialog's color swatch and chose
black for the glow color.
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(Above) The river with blue fill; (be-
low) the river with the In-ner
Glow effect added to the
appearance attribute set
