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fill point, or select "Ctrl + E" to adjust the color using the Color Editor. There are different
fill styles, for example this is a circle with a circular fill.

The shadow is another ellipse with a graduated color fill and feathered (see below).

Transparency Tool

You can adjust the transparency of any graphic or photo to make it see-through. More
than this, Designer Pro supports graduated transparency. It works very like the
graduated color fill. In the Transparency tool just drag across your shape and you can
see the transparency fades. You can adjust the degree of transparency of each end of
the fill arrow, by clicking on either end of the arrow, and adjusting the Transparency
slider. See Transparency for more information.

Feather
This is a graphical term for blending the edges of objects. Designer Pro provides a
feather control that enables any object, graphics, text or photo to be feathered - giving
it a blurred edge that blends with the background. The Feather control is not a tool on the
left, but one of the controls on the top bar. Try it on your rectangle shape. Select the
shape and then click this Feather control on the right of the top bar.

The shadow below the ball drawing above has a feathered edge. Combining all of these
controls you can very quickly produce amazing layered graphics for your design, all
directly in Designer Pro without needing any other graphics tools.