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- [Voiceover] In this movie, we'll discuss



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a command located under the effect menu



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called Document Raster Effects Settings,



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and it controls the resolution

of any pixel-based effects



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inside of Illustrator.



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Now, notice that we have two

groups of dynamic effects



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here inside this menu.



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One is labeled Illustrator effects,



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and the other is labeled

Photoshop effects.



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Now, for the most part

the Illustrator effects



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are vector-based effects,



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meaning that if you were

to expand the effect,



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you would end up with

vector-based path outlines,



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and for the most part,

the Photoshop effects



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are pixel-based effects, most of which



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come from Photoshop's filter gallery.



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Vary pretty wildly in terms

of their utility, by the way.



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The main exceptions are these guys



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under the Blur sub-menu,

including Gaussian Blur,



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which you may sometimes find useful,



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and then we have some Pixelate effects



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that were originally

designed by Adobe's engineers



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that you might give a try if you want,



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but my guess is you won't be applying



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these effects very often in Illustrator,



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because they work a lot

better inside Photoshop.



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There are, however, four commands up here



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in the Illustrator effects

that are actually pixel-based.



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That is to say, they are raster effects,



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and they include these four options here



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in the Stylize sub-menu,

including Drop Shadow,



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Feather, Inner Glow, and Outer Glow,



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and that's because these

are all fuzzy effects.



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Drop Shadow creates a

fuzzy directional shadow.



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Feather will go ahead and fuzz up



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the edges of a path outline.



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Inner glow creates a glow

on the inside of a path,



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and outer glow creates

a glow on the outside.



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Now, what I want to do

where this particular effect



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is concerned, is trace

along the outer edge



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of each one of the petals, so I'll start



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by clicking anywhere inside the artboard,



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in order to select this little

eight-pointed circle here,



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and then inside the appearance panel,



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I'll click on the fill to select it.



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Then, I'll go up to the effect menu,



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choose Stylize, and choose Outer Glow.



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These are the settings I came up with.



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I'll go ahead and click

on the color swatch



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to show you that I really dialed in



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a hue value of 15 degrees,

then a saturation of 100%,



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and then a brightness

of 50%, but things got



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averaged down in order to

accommodate the RGB values.



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At which point I'll

click OK, then I want to



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darken things up, so I change

the blend mode to Multiply.



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My opacity value is set to 100%,



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and I took the blur

value down to 0.3 points,



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so you can go with partial

points if you want to,



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but notice if I turn on

the preview checkbox,



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I don't see a darn

thing, and that's because



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my outer glow effect is

now going to be applied



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after the transform effect,

which is not what I want at all,



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but given the way I've approached things,



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I need to accept this

effect by clicking OK,



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and now notice, Transform's on top,



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meaning it's applied first, and outer glow



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is on the bottom, meaning

it's applied second.



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What we need to do is reverse the order,



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so I'll click and drag

outer glow above transform,



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and then we end up

seeing this effect here.



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But, can you make it out?



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It's awfully herky-jerky

and the reason is that



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it starts off as a tiny little outer glow,



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and then it gets magnified

by the transform effect,



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and as a result, we see some



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pretty big clumpy junk going on.



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It becomes even more obvious if I



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turn off these two effects right here,



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Transform and Pucker & Bloat.



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Notice now, we're seeing

these really horrible edges



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all over the place, and that's because



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this is ultimately a

low resolution effect.



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To change that, go to the effect menu,



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and choose Document

Raster Effects Settings.



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Now, at this point, it's

not at all necessary



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that the path outline be selected,



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and I'm gonna demonstrate that by



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pressing the Escape key here,



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and then pressing Control + Shift + A,



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or Command + Shift + A on a Mac,



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to deselect the artwork,

and that's because



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Document Raster Effects Settings



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controls the entire document.



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I'll just go ahead and choose the command,



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and because I started

with a basic RGB file,



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my resolution is set to 72 ppi,



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which nine times out of 10, is just fine.



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If you were to go back and

look at the outer glow effects



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that we assigned to the cubes, they look



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absolutely great at 72 pixels per inch,



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and that's because they're blurry.



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You don't need a lot of

pixels to represent blur.



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Our problem is we're

magnifying the problem



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significantly here, and as a result,



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we need to take it up to

something like High, at 300 ppi.



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Now, that is the default

setting for print,



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not really necessary.



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I'm just gonna tell you this.



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If you find that your blur effects



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and your shadows, and

your glows, and so forth,



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start behaving really super

slowly in a print document,



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go to this command, and try

taking the resolution down.



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It'll speed things up tremendously,



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you won't believe how

much, and I'll be surprised



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if you see any bad effects, even in print,



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and that's because, again, I

really want to make this clear,



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you don't need many pixels

for most blurry effects.



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This one is an exception,

and so I'm gonna choose High,



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and then I'll click OK,

and things get better,



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but they're still not great.



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Notice that we have some

uneven effects going on here.



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It looks like we have kind of dark blobs



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every once in a while,

and so what we need to do



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is raise the resolution even higher



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by returning to the effect menu,



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choosing Document Raster Effects Settings,



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and then I'm gonna set

resolution to Other,



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and I'm gonna take this custom value here



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up to 1,200 pixels per inch,



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and notice now if I click OK,



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I end up with some very

smooth effects indeed,



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and this helps me to accommodate



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that very thin edge, that 0.3

point blur that I applied,



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and in the case of this image,



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things keep humming along pretty well.



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It will take longer to

save your file however,



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that's just something you'll need to know.



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All right now I'll go ahead

and turn Pucker & Bloat



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and Transform back on, and we end up



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with a very good looking effect.



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Whether we're zoomed in

here, or whether I press



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Control + 0 or Command +

0 on a Mac to zoom out.



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At which point, I'll just go ahead and



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press Control + Shift + A,



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or Command + Shift + A on a Mac,



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to once again deselect my artwork.



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That is once again how you use



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Document Raster Effects Settings



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in order to control the resolution of your



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soft effects, which include

drop shadow, feather,



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inner glow, and outer glow,

here inside Illustrator.