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you'd then see horizontal lines across it. If you then rotated the shape, would you want
the ripples to rotate with it? If so, lock the effect before the rotation. Or would you want
the horizontal ripple effect to be re-applied to your now rotated rectangle? If so, leave the
effect unlocked.

When a Live Effects is locked the effect rotates with the object (left).

When giving designs to other people to load, if they do not have the plug-ins that are
used in the design, then they won't see the effects applied. To get around this problem,
you can lock the effects. Locked effects are saved as bitmaps in the document so
anyone can see them, even if they don't have the plug-ins that generated the effects.
To lock an effect, select the object or objects and in the LIVE EFFECTS InfoBar
click the PADLOCK icon. To unlock an effect that has been locked this way, just
click the PADLOCK icon again.

You can still alter the resolution of the effect. For printing, you may want to use a higher
resolution than if the work is just for screen use.
Live Effect resolution
For screen and web use it's best to leave the resolution at the default 96 DPI; the same
as the screen resolution. If you require a higher resolution image, for example if you're
printing or wanting to export a high-resolution bitmap, then you can increase this to 150
DPI or even higher. The higher the resolution, the longer it takes to generate or re-
generate the effect (because it has to work with a much larger bitmap) and the more
memory is required.

You can set the resolution of a Live Effect to "Automatic", instead of choosing a fixed DPI
value. With this setting, the effect will be automatically re-generated when required, at
the most appropriate resolution. For example, if you print a design containing Live
Effects, any effects set to AUTOMATIC will be re-generated at print resolution if they are
not already at that resolution or higher. In a large design with many effects, note that this
can make printing much slower as each effect has to be re-generated at high resolution.

You can change the resolution that's used to render effects in THE EFFECTS & PLUG-INS
tab of the OPTIONS dialog. For more on the Options dialog see Customizing Designer Pro
(on page 624). To change the resolution of an effect that has already been applied, use
the DPI control on the LIVE EFFECTS toolbar.