WebPlus Essentials User Guide - Serif

Creating outlines
Lines, Shapes, and Effects 153
WebPlus lets you create a colored outline around objects, especially text and
shapes (as a filter effect). For any outline, you can set the outline width, color
fill, transparency, and blend mode. The outline can also take a gradient fill, a
unique contour fill (fill runs from the inner to outer edge of the outline width),
or pattern fill and can also sit inside, outside, or be centered on the object edge.
As with all effects you can switch the outline effect on and off. You'll be able to
apply a combination of 2D or 3D filter effects along with your outline, by
checking other options in the Filter Effects dialog.
Using the Shadow Tool
Shadows are great for adding flair and dimension to your work, particularly to
pictures and text objects, but also to shapes, text frames and tables. To help you
create them quickly and easily, WebPlus provides the Shadow Tool on the
Tools toolbar's Effects flyout. The tool affords freeform control of the shadow
effect allowing creation of adjustable basic or skewed edge-based shadows for
any WebPlus object.
Basic (left) and skewed shadows (right) applied to a square QuickShape.
Adjustment of shadow color, opacity, blur, and scaling/distance is possible using
controllable nodes directly on the page (or via a supporting Shadow context
toolbar). Nodes can be dragged inwards or outwards from the shadow origin to
modify the shadow's blur and opacity. For a different color, select the Color
node then pick a new color from the Color or Swatches tab. Depending on if a
basic or skewed shadow is required, the origin can exist in the center (shown) or
at the edge of an object, respectively.