Adobe 65021048 User Guide - Page 238

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 232 User Guide Adding fills, strokes, and shadows in titles About object properties You can apply custom properties to each object or group of objects you create, and save a combination of properties as a style. Styles appear as buttons in the Title Styles panel. Use styles to maintain consistency across multiple titles in a project. Title Properties panel See also "Work with styles" on page 236 Set a fill for text and objects An object's fill property defines the area within the contours of the object: the space inside a graphic object, or within the outline of each character of a text object. You can fill an entire object or individual letters of type. Note: If you add a stroke to an object, the stroke also includes a fill (see "Add a stroke to text or object" on page 234). 1 Select the object you want to fill. 2 In the Title Properties panel, click the triangle next to the Fill category and select the box next to the Fill category to set an option. Some options include: Fill Type Specifies whether and how color is applied within the contours of text or graphic object. Color Determines the color of the fill. Click the color swatch to open a color picker, or click the eyedropper to sample a color from anywhere on the screen. Color options vary according to the Fill Type specified. Opacity Specifies the fill's opacity, from 0% (completely transparent) to 100% (completely opaque). Set the opacity of an object's fill color to set the opacity of individual objects in a title. To set the opacity of the title as a whole, add it to a track in the Timeline above another clip and adjust its opacity as you would any clip's. Fill type options Solid Creates a fill of uniform color. Set options as desired. Linear Gradient or Radial Gradient Linear Gradient creates a linear, two-color gradient fill. Radial Gradient creates a circular, two-color gradient fill. April 1, 2008