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The danger (and power) of unnamed colors

The danger (and power) of unnamed colors - InDesign Tutorial

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The danger (and power) of unnamed colors

- [Instructor] Some people spec out all their colors far ahead of ever applying them in their documents. Others like working more interactively, playing with colors as they lay out a page. And you can work either way in InDesign, but if you're in the play as you go corner, you're probably going to like using the color panel. Now you can find the color panel by going to the window menu, scrolling down to color, and then choosing color again from the submenu. To apply a color to this text frame, I first select it with selection tool. Then, before you choose a color inside the color panel, make sure you go to the color panel menu and choose which color mode you want to use, usually CMYK or RGB. You can use RGB if it's an onscreen document, but in this case, let's go ahead and use CMYK. Now, from here, you can dial in the colors exactly the way you want them, using the percentages, or you can click anywhere down here in this…

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