If you want to add visual impact to your artwork
With Illustrator's dynamic tools and effects, you'll be able to make your ideas come to life: - Import files from other applications to add diverse elements to your artwork. (See Importing artwork and Managing linked and embedded artwork.)
- Use graphic styles to quickly add flair to text and artwork. Illustrator comes with over 150 preset styles, plus you can save new styles with a single click. (See Using graphic styles.)
- Use effects to experiment with a limitless variety of appearances while keeping the ability to edit the underlying objects. Effects can be modified or removed instantly, so you'll always be in control of the final artwork. (See Using filters and effects and Summary of filters and effects.)
- When applying styles and effects, use the Layers palette to target any object, group, or layer you want to change. Then use the Appearance palette to keep track of and modify the results. (See Targeting layers, groups, and containers.)
- Bend, stretch, and twist your graphics in any way imaginable with live enveloping, warping, and liquify tools. The distorted objects remain editable, no matter how much they have been manipulated. (See Reshaping objects with envelopes, Reshaping objects with effects and filters, and Reshaping objects with the liquify tools.)
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