Chapter 8: Defining Colors and Gradients

Overview

Although color is most widely used by high-end publishers ‚ people producing magazines and catalogs ‚ color is becoming more accessible to all publishers, thanks to the recent emergence of inexpensive color printers, color copiers, and leading-edge desktop-publishing programs. Whether you want to produce limited-run documents on a color printer, create newsletters using spot colors, or publish magazines and catalogs using process colors and special inks, InDesign offers the tools that you need to do the job well.

You can use color in your graphics or apply colors to text and layout elements (such as bars along the edge of a page). Or you can use color in both ways. To a great extent, where you define and apply color determines what you can do with it.

Cross-Reference ‚  

Chapter 29 covers color matching and other high-end color-output issues in depth. This chapter concentrates on how to create and apply colors within InDesign.