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Color adds emotion, detail, emphasis and interest to print documents. Adobe InDesign, a desktop publishing program that allows designers to create a variety of print materials, allows you to add color swatches for use in your print documents. Using swatches allows you to uniformly apply and modify the color schemes used in your documents.
Steps
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Open the Swatches panel, which is located in the far right side of your workspace.
- If this panel is not already in your workspace, open it by selecting Windows>Colors>Swatches.
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Select Other Library from the Color Mode list. Navigate to the file from which you would like to add swatches. Click Open and then select the swatches you would like to add.Advertisement
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Click OK.
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Open your Swatches panel and select New Color Swatch.
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Locate the Color Mode list and select the library file from which you would like to add a swatch or swatches. You may also select Other Library from the Color Mode list and navigate to the library file from which you would like to add a swatch or swatches.
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Select the swatches you would like to add and click Add.
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Click Done.
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Open your Swatches panel and select New Color Swatch.
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Select either Process or Spot as your color type.
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Select a mode for defining the color.
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Drag the color sliders to adjust the color values or enter specific numeric values in the boxes located by the color sliders. If you are using a spot color, select your color from the Color Mode menu.
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Click Add to add your swatch and create a new one or click OK to add your swatch and exit the window.
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Tips
- Spot colors are premixed colors that should be used when a document contains only a few colors and the color's accuracy is important. Process colors are colors that are created using a specific combination of cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks. Process colors are used for documents that contain a large number of colors, such as documents containing photographs.Thanks
- Adobe InDesign allows you to add swatches from other InDesign documents, Adobe Illustrator files, Adobe Photoshop files or from one of several pre-loaded color libraries. InDesign's pre-loaded color libraries include ANPA Color, DIC Color, Focoltone, Pantone, HKS, Toyo, Trumatch, Web and Windows and Mac system libraries.Thanks
- InDesign's Swatches panel includes six default CMYK colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green and blue, as well as black.Thanks
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References
- http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6c99a.html
- http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6c8aa.html#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6c86a
- http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6c99a.html
- http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6c96a.html#WS3CE404AC-9B08-48de-B08A-7ED23AC4D5A2a
- http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6cafa.html
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