Creating Colors


To apply the color you want to an item or text, first you need to create that color . By default, InDesign provides a few colors: cyan, magenta , yellow, [Black], red, blue, green, [Paper] (white), [None], and [Registration]. (The names that InDesign puts in brackets are colors that cannot be deleted or modified.) In most cases, you'll be creating additional colors to suit your documents.

  1. To open the Swatches pane, where you create, modify, and apply colors, choose Window Swatches, or press F5.

    Here, you'll be creating a color based on a color in our imported logo.

  2. Select the Eyedropper tool and then click on the background color in that logo.

    For the IT Wireless Magazine logo shown in Figure QS-17, the color is a dark blue.

  3. Choose New Color Swatch from the pane's palette menu.

  4. From the Color Mode pop-up menu, choose CMYK.

    This will create a color based on the four process colors widely used in commercial printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.

    Because you selected a color with the Eyedropper tool, the New Color Swatch dialog box shows the values, as Figure QS-18 shows. If you had not first selected a color with the Eyedropper tool, you would enter values or slide the four sliders to select a desired color. If the Name with Color Value option is checked, InDesign will name the color automatically; if it is unchecked, you can give it a more memorable name such as Bright Navy.


    Figure QS-18: Create a CMYK color by first selecting a color from an object in the layout with the Eyedropper tool, or by selecting the proportions of the constituent colors in the New Color Swatch dialog box.

  5. Click OK to create the color and close the dialog box.

    If you wanted to create more colors, click Add instead. Click OK only when you want to close the dialog box.

    Cross-Reference ‚  

    For more information about creating colors, see Chapter 8.




Adobe InDesign CS Bible
Adobe InDesign CS3 Bible
ISBN: 0470119381
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 344
Authors: Galen Gruman

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