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Create a drop shadow, Working with styles

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ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 236 User Guide Selecting Delete Stroke from Title Properties panel menu Create a drop shadow Add drop shadows to any object you create in the Titler. The various shadow options give you full control over color, opacity, angle, distance, size, and spread. 1 Select an object. 2 In the Title Properties panel, select Shadow. 3 Click the arrow next to the Shadow option to set any of the values including: Distance Specifies the number of pixels that the shadow is offset from the object. Size Specifies the size of the shadow. Spread Specifies how far the alpha channel boundaries of the object are extended prior to blurring. This is particularly useful on small, thin features such as cursive descenders or ascenders on typeface, which tend to disappear if you apply a significant blur. Working with styles Work with styles Once you've applied a combination of color properties and font characteristics to a text or shape element in your title, you can save this combination, or style, for later use. You can save any number of styles. Thumbnails of all saved styles appear in the Title Styles panel, so you can quickly apply your custom styles across projects. Adobe Premiere Pro also includes a set of default styles. By default, Adobe Premiere Pro stores all saved styles as style library files that use the .prsl file extension. When you save a style library, you are saving the entire set of styles that are displayed in the current Adobe Title Designer window. The preset style library is stored in Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/Presets/Styles; custom styles are stored in My Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/3.0/Styles (Windows), or Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/3.0/Styles (Mac OS). Because Adobe Premiere Pro stores each style or set of styles as a separate file, you can share styles with other users. If you share styles, make sure that the fonts, textures, and background files used are available on all systems. The Current Style thumbnail always shows the properties that you have applied to the currently selected element. April 1, 2008

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ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3
User Guide
236
Selecting Delete Stroke from Title Properties panel menu
Create a drop shadow
Add drop shadows to any object you create in the Titler. The various shadow options give you full control over
color, opacity, angle, distance, size, and spread.
1
Select an object.
2
In the Title Properties panel, select Shadow.
3
Click the arrow next to the Shadow option to set any of the values including:
Distance
Specifies the number of pixels that the shadow is offset from the object.
Size
Specifies the size of the shadow.
Spread
Specifies how far the alpha channel boundaries of the object are extended prior to blurring. This is partic-
ularly useful on small, thin features such as cursive descenders or ascenders on typeface, which tend to disappear if
you apply a significant blur.
Working with styles
Work with styles
Once you’ve applied a combination of color properties and font characteristics to a text or shape element in your
title, you can save this combination, or
style
, for later use. You can save any number of styles. Thumbnails of all saved
styles appear in the Title Styles panel, so you can quickly apply your custom styles across projects. Adobe Premiere
Pro also includes a set of default styles.
By default, Adobe Premiere Pro stores all saved styles as
style library
files that use the .prsl file extension. When you
save a style library, you are saving the entire set of styles that are displayed in the current Adobe Title Designer
window. The preset style library is stored in Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/Presets/Styles; custom
styles are stored in My Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/3.0/Styles (Windows), or Documents/Adobe/Premiere
Pro/3.0/Styles (Mac OS).
Because Adobe Premiere Pro stores each style or set of styles as a separate file, you can share styles with other users.
If you share styles, make sure that the fonts, textures, and background files used are available on all systems.
The Current Style thumbnail always shows the properties that you have applied to the currently selected element.
April 1, 2008