Creative effects

Experiment with designs right on the page layout with Adobe Photoshop®-like effects. You can experiment with blending modes, opacity, and other effects without permanently altering your objects. And you can save effects as part of an object style for easy reuse and sharing.

Take advantage of these new creative effects:

Gradient feather effect

Fade an object into the background by way of an adjustable linear or radial gradient.

Directional feather effect

Enhance feathering by customizing the feather angle and the amount of feathering on each side.

Bevel and Emboss effect

Add inner highlights and shadows that create a relief effect.

Satin effect

Apply interior shading that creates a satin-like finish.

Inner Shadow effect

Add a shadow that falls just inside the edges of the object’s content, giving the object a recessed appearance.

Inner Glow and Outer Glow effects

Add glows that emanate from the inside and outside edges of an object.

See Transparency effects.

Finer transparency controls

Create complex visual effects by applying multiple transparency settings to a single object. You can apply transparency settings independently to an object’s fill, stroke, and content. See Effects panel overview.

Improved text wrap

Easily flow text around objects. Wrap to a side or according to a clipping path or alpha channel. See Change the shape of a text wrap.

Convenient Glyphs panel

Use the Glyphs panel to locate recently used glyphs, filter and sort glyphs, and save glyph sets for sharing and reuse. See Glyphs panel overview.