Advanced Shadow Effect Options
The shadow effect in PowerPoint adds more depth to your selected shape -- and you may get the perfect shadow effect the very first time you use PowerPoint's default shadow options. However, you may want that shadow to be a wee bit longer, or just a little less pronounced. Or maybe you want the shadow to sport a color that's different. Fortunately, these shadow effects are quite easy to achieve.

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Apply Reflection Effects to Shapes
Apply any of the various effects in PowerPoint, and your shapes may stand out -- literally out of the slide! In this series on Shape Effects in PowerPoint 2013, we have explored several effect types. On this page, you will learn how you can quickly add a convincing Reflection effect to a shape. While this tutorial pertains to shapes, there's no reason why you cannot use the same Reflection effects on other slide objects. Reflection applies a blurred, semi-transparent duplication of the original object -- in the same way as you may have seen reflection on water or glass.

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Advanced Reflection Options
The Reflection effects that PowerPoint 2013 provides can be applied with a single click, and can indeed do wonders for your shapes. However, too much of anything cannot be good and if you get too carried away by the swanky looking reflections, you may end up distracting your audiences. Most of PowerPoint's reflection presets are attractive, and somewhat distracting. Still, you can tone down the effect a little -- or if you want, you can let your creativity work and enhance the reflection effect! Whatever your scenario may be, you can edit the reflection properties to suit your creative freedom -- for instance, you can change the transparency or distance of the reflection.

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Apply Glow Effects for Shapes
The next PowerPoint effect for shapes that we will explore is the Glow effect. This effect adds a hazed color perimeter outside the shape area. This is an Outer Glow surrounding the shape -- and not an Inner Glow effect. You can choose from various glow colors such as Theme colors or even any other color of your choice to match the look of the slide content.

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More Glow Colors
A Glow effect adds a hazed color perimeter outside the shape area -- and by default, the Glow colors emanate from the active Theme. These default Glow colors works most of time but of course, you can change the Glow color to something entirely different. In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can change this Glow color to any color you want.