Effects Tool-    This Tool will open up all the effects you can use for your graphic. and is fast and easy to use. choose the effect and work with the  Graphic to get special effects with your graphic. For example: The ripple will give you an effect of ripples and if your working with more than one frame you will get water moving. when updtated to animation shop you will beable to view the work you do.     Buttonize Tool-   With this tool you can buttonize , graphics, photos , and shapes with text for links such as home page, next, and so on.    Drop Shadow-  With this tool you can costumize your shadows to go in the directions you desire, or even size the shadows in your graphics.    Inner Bevel Tool-  You can use this tool for making frames , and 3D effects to graphics and or text.  playing with the settings will give you a variety of lighting effects as well as shapes of the bevel.    Gaussian Blur Tool-  With this tool you can put a blur into yur graphic in whole or in part. Example blurring out edges of graphic, usng the lasso  tool to choose the edges to blurout.    Hot Wax Tool-  This tool gives a hot wax coating to all or part of your graphic.    Brush Strokes Tool-  With this tool you can choose a variety of brush strokes to add a differant look to your graphics.    Colored Foil Tool-  With this tool you can give the foil look to yur graphics giving a variety of color and brightness.    Emboss Tool- This tool converts an image into a bas-relif. It highlights the areas of contrast with black or white and colors the low contrast areas in grey.   Colors will appear when there is a large differance in contrast.    Fur Tool-  This tool will give the image a look as if it is covered in fur or bristles.     Lights Tool- This tool will give a variety of lighting to the effect of your graphics.    Polished Stone Tool- This tool gives the polished stone look to a photo or graphic awsome looks. you can  play with the settings to get the look you want.    Sunburst Tool- This Tool will give you a viety of settings for a sun burst to com into the graphic.  Awsome tool.    Topography Tool-  This tool  turns a graphic or image , even a photo.,  into a system of terraces.