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56 Getting Started

Some text with a soft shadow.

To adjust the position of an existing shadow, go into the SHADOW TOOL and drag on the
shadow.

Example Graphics

This button combines many of the features described above - it's drawn by combining
just a few feathered shapes, and using graduated transparency (the white reflection
effect). The text has a slight soft shadow and the button has a glow shadow. The whole
thing is grouped. (You do not need to draw this button as it's provided in the Button
category of the ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG).

The huge benefit of vector graphics, compared to 'bitmap' graphics created in pixel
editing software, is that you can re-color, edit, rotate, and resize the button with no loss of
quality. Make it huge and it remains pin sharp:

On top of that you can re-color easily, Just select, click a color and choose the color you
want to replace from the list shown in the Color Replacement dialog that appears. And it
will even stretch as required - everything in Web Designer Premium remains non-
destructive (which means you can always edit it, with no loss of quality).

Something that would take skill and time to produce using alternative graphics software,
is trivially easy in Web Designer Premium.