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Work with Inner Glow and Outer Glow

Work with Inner Glow and Outer Glow - Illustrator Tutorial

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Work with Inner Glow and Outer Glow

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- In this movie, we'll see how to use astute graphic stylism, to create and adjust Illustrator's inner and outer glow effects. I'll start with the inner glow effect. I'll select my star, and click the button in the stylism panel, to apply an inner glow. This is the same effect I'd get if chose effect, stylize, inner glow. And you can see the same controls on the star, that are in the dialogue box. So I have a blend mode menu, currently set to screen. I have opacity controls, I have blur controls. I can chose whether or not the glow is applied from the centre or edge. And I can choose the color of the glow. I'll close the dialogue box, and let's explore the stylism controls on the star. The default blend mode is screen, but I can pick a different one from the menu, like overlay and get a different look. I can switch to apply this glow from the center of the object instead of the edge. And I can click the…

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