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Working with color swatches

Working with color swatches

From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Working with color swatches

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- [Instructor] If you're creating a file that perhaps it's just going to be a PDF viewed on the web and never printed, well, then you can pick your colors however you like. But if you're designing for print you have to play by the rules. If you're working for print your colors need to be either C M Y K process colors or spot colors. So let's find out what's going on in this file. Now I've looked at the job ticket and I do know that it's a five color job, C M Y K plus a spot color. I wonder what spot color that is. Well, let's start exploring the Swatches panel. I can see that there are a lot of Swatches. I'm pretty sure that a lot of them aren't used. So I'm going to have InDesign eliminate the unused ones by coming up to the panel menu and choosing select all unused. When I click the trash can now I have a much cleaner Swatches panel and it's a little easier to start telling what's going on. Notice that I have this…

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