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Outer Glow Style

In the Outer Glow style There are three boxes that you can change their specifications to get the effect that you want:

1. Structure:

-Blend Mode

-Opacity This will determine the glow's density.

-Noise This determiners if the glow is noised (distributed in little dots)

-Color Here you can choose the color of the glow by just clicking on the color square that would open the color picker.

-Gradient color Here you can define the gradient, if you wish the glow to be gradient.

2. Elements:

-Technique You can choose the technique to be either Softer, or Precise.

-Spread This determines the Amount of glow spread

-Size This determines the size of the glow contour.

3. Quality:

-Contour These are styles of how would the glow spread. Allowing you to create transparent palaces within the effect.

-Range How the range of the contour is targeted.

-Jitter How the gradient of transparency is distributed.

4. Finally you have the Preview box that shows you how the glow is being applied

Example of an Outer Glow effect: