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SOHO Business Cards Tour: Design Tools
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Top-notch designers use top-notch tools! Now everyone can experience these sophisticated tools in an easy-to-use package.
Discover your inner artist with tools once reserved exclusively for professional designers. The new Smart Inspector makes it easy for everyone, whether you're a profressional or novice, to use the tools you need to get your desired results.
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Tools Of The Trade.
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Group graphics, text, and shapes together as a single object that can be moved, resized, and rotated as a single entity.
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Create different portions of your design on separate layers including standard Foreground and Background layers. Layers help organize your design so you can avoid disturbing unintended objects. Layers can be duplicated, merged, and rearranged. Plus, you can show and hide layers to quickly compare several variations of the same design.
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Lock a graphic, shape, or text on the design canvas so it can't be accidentally moved or deleted. Locks are available on a per layer basis.
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Use linear and circular gradients to blend colors for a rich effect. Powerful options give you precise control over the gradient including angle, center size, and center location.
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Add a shadow to any object with full control over shadow height, blur, color, and opacity.
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Any object including shapes, graphics, and text can be made semi-transparent for interesting effects.
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Create logos and custom design elements using 30+ built-in shapes. Control every aspect of a shape including stroke color, fill color, stroke style, stroke size, and opacity.
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Where appropriate, certain shapes include controls to customize attributes unique to the shape. For example, you can specify the number of points on a star and the height of the points.
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Rotate any object in real-time to any angle and you'll see the result immediately.
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Simply adjust a slider to zoom the design canvas to any level or use the pop-up zoom tool.
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Image Manipulation Tools.
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Use the one-click crop tool to crop photos to the aspect ratio of your choice. The crop can be dynamically moved and resized at any time without permanently altering the original image.
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Sometimes you have the perfect size crop, but the image within the crop needs to be made a little larger or smaller and you don't want to start over. Now you can zoom the image within a crop while you're performing the crop.
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Achieve eye-catching results in one step by cropping an image to any shape or text.
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Use the perspective tool to distort a two dimensional image to give the impression of depth.
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