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Chapter 11: Effectively Keeping Up Appearances, with Style(s) To apply an effect to a stroke only or to a fill only, just follow these steps: 1. Select an object by clicking it with the Selection tool. 2. Choose Window➪Appearance to open the Appearance panel. 3. In the Appearance panel, select the stroke or the fill to which you want to apply the effect. For this example, select the stroke. 4. Choose an effect from the Effect menu. For this example, choose Effect➪Distort & Transform➪Pucker & Bloat. The Pucker & Bloat dialog box opens. Drag the slider towards Pucker (to the left). | Chapter 11 Effectively Keeping Up Appearances with Style s 215 To apply an effect to a stroke only or to a fill only just follow these steps 1. Select an object by clicking it with the Selection tool. 2. Choose Window11Appearance to open the Appearance panel. 3. In the Appearance panel select the stroke or the fill to which you want to apply the effect. For this example select the stroke. 4. Choose an effect from the Effect menu. For this example choose Effect Distort Transform Pucker Bloat. The Pucker Bloat dialog box opens. Drag the slider towards Pucker to the left or towards Bloat to the right . The effect applies to the path and takes an appropriate place in the Appearance panel. When you look at your artwork you see that only the stroke has been puckered or bloated depending on what you chose . If you want to apply an effect just to a fill follow the preceding steps but select a fill instead of a stroke. Going back to adjust settings Any effect previously applied to an object group or layer can be modified. You can edit the effect by double-clicking it in the Appearance panel. After you do the effect s dialog box appears enabling you to edit the current values for that effect. If the effect dialog box has a Preview check box place a check in it and watch your changes in real time Don t try to edit an effect you just applied by selecting that effect again in the Effect menu. Doing so applies the same effect a second time over the same path. Instead double-click the effect in the Appearance panel. Removing appearances If you re tired of keeping up appearances for example you feel your artwork is too complex and want it to be cleaner and simpler or you added so many effects that printing or drawing on-screen takes too long Illustrator gives you three ways to remove them from on-screen artwork that is . You can take an appearance apart one attribute at a time trash the whole appearance except the basics or zap everything at once. Here s how you accomplish each of