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Filters

Much like blend modes, filters will not be new to Photoshop users, but they are new to Flash. Filters allow things such as drop shadow, blur, and beveling to be applied directly to a movie clip, a button, or a text field right from the Filters panel, which is held in Properties Inspector (Flash Professional 8 only). You can also have multiple filters applied to a single object and stack them in different orders to get different effects.

You can see the Filter panel options for the Drop Shadow filter in Figure 1.10. Notice that you can not only adjust the filter, but also how the object interacts with the filter. For instance, you can check the Knockout option, and the filter will remain, but the object on the stage will have vanished.

Following is a list of all available filters:

• DropShadow
  Adds a drop shadow to an object, inner or outer.

• Blur
  Adds a blur effect to an object.

• Glow
  Adds a glow to an object, inner or outer.

• Bevel
  Adds a simple bevel to an object.

• GradientGlow
  Adds a gradient glow to an object, inner or outer.

• GradientBevel
  Adds a gradient bevel to an object.

• AdjustColor
  Allows you to adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Hue of an object.

Even more options are available when you apply filters to objects with ActionScript, as you will see in Chapter 13.