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FIGURE 15 Fill and stroke buttons in palettes FIGURE 16 Fill and Stroke buttons in the Color and Swatches palettes FIGURE 17 Useful color buttons in the Toolbox Fill and Stroke buttons

colors—no fill and a black stroke Clicking

this button will apply a black stroke and no

fill to a selected object The Swap Fill and

Stroke button swaps the fill color with the

stroke color

Finally, the three “Apply” buttons at the

bottom of the Toolbox are useful for

speed-ing up your work The Apply color and

Apply gradient buttons display the last

color and gradient that you’ve used This

makes for quick and easy access when you

are using the same color or gradient

repeat-edly The Apply None button is available

for removing the fill or stroke from a

selected object, depending on which button

(Fill or Stroke) is active in the Toolbox

FIGURE 15

Fill and stroke buttons in palettes

FIGURE 16

Fill and Stroke buttons in the Color and Swatches palettes

FIGURE 17

Useful color buttons in the Toolbox

Fill and Stroke

buttons Fill and Stroke

Stroke button

Apply None button

Default Fill and Stroke button

Apply gradient button Apply color

When mouse is released square will

be filled with yellow

Understanding the Paper

Swatch

If I gave you a white piece of paper and a

box of crayons and asked you to draw a

white star against a blue background, you

would probably color all of the page blue

except for the star shape, which you would

leave blank The star would appear as white

because the paper is white The Paper swatch, shown in Figure 18, is based on this very concept Use the Paper swatch whenever you want an object to have a white fill or stroke

Don’t confuse a Paper fill with a None fill

When you fill a frame with Paper, it is filled with white When you fill it with

None, it has no fill—its fill is transparent Figure 19 illustrates this distinction In the figure, two text frames are positioned

in front of a frame with a yellow fill The text frame on the left has None as its fill; therefore the yellow frame is visible behind the text The text frame on the right has Paper as its fill

FIGURE 18

Paper swatch

FIGURE 19

Understanding a Paper fill

Paper swatch

Frames with yellow fill

Text frame with None fill

Text frame with Paper fill

Applying Color to Text

Applying color to text is easy There are two

different methods for applying color to text,

depending on which tool you are using to

select the text

When you select text with the Type Tool, the

Fill and Stroke buttons in the Toolbox

dis-play the letter T, as shown in Figure 20

This is a visual indication that you are

fill-ing or strokfill-ing text Click a swatch in the

Swatches palette or mix a color in the Color palette and the text will be filled or stroked with that color

QUICKTIP

The color of the letter T in the Fill and Stroke buttons is the same color as the selected text

When you select a text frame with a selec-tion tool, you need to tell InDesign what

you want to do—apply a fill or stroke to the frame itself or apply a fill or stroke to the text in the frame If you want to apply color to the text, click the Formatting affects text button in the Toolbox, as shown in Figure 21 If you want to apply color to the frame, click the Formatting affects container button It’s that simple Note that the two buttons can also be found in the Swatches and Color palettes

FIGURE 20

Fill and Stroke buttons applied to text

FIGURE 21

Formatting buttons

Fill and Stroke buttons

Formatting affects container button Formatting affects

text button

Creating Black Shadow Text

When you position text against a

back-ground color or against a photographic

image, sometimes it’s not easy to see the

text, as shown in Figure 22 To remedy

this, many designers use the classic

tech-nique of placing a black copy of the text

behind the original text, as shown in

Figure 23 This trick adds much-needed

contrast between the text and the image

behind it

QUICKTIP

Placing a black copy of text behind original text produces

a different effect than using InDesign’s Drop Shadow command

Modifying and Deleting Swatches

Once you’ve created a swatch in or added a swatch to the Swatches palette, it is a named color and will be saved with the document Any swatch can be modified

simply by double-clicking it, which opens the Swatch Options dialog box, as shown in Figure 24 Any modifications you make to the swatch will be updated automatically in any frame that uses the color as a fill or a stroke

You can also delete a swatch from the Swatches palette by selecting the swatch, then clicking the Delete Swatch button in the Swatches palette or clicking the Delete Swatch command on the Swatches palette menu If you are deleting a swatch that is

FIGURE 22

Text positioned against an image

FIGURE 23

Text with a black copy behind it

Black text placed behind purple text

used in your document, the Delete Swatch

dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 25

You use the Delete Swatch dialog box to

choose a color to replace the deleted

swatch For example, if you’ve filled (or

stroked) a number of objects with the color

Warm Green and then you delete the Warm

Green swatch, the Delete Swatch dialog

box wants to know what color those objects

should be changed to You choose another named color that is already in the Swatches palette by clicking the Defined Swatch list arrow, clicking a color, and then clicking

OK When you do so, all the objects with a Warm Green fill or stroke will change to the named color you chose Note that this can be a very quick and effective method for changing the fill (or stroke) color of multiple objects simultaneously

If you click the Unnamed Swatch option button in the Delete Swatch dialog box, all the objects filled or stroked with the deleted color will retain their color However, since that color is no longer in the Swatches palette, those objects are now filled with an unnamed color

FIGURE 24

Swatch Options dialog box

FIGURE 25

Delete Swatch dialog box

Drag and drop colors onto

objects

1 Click View on the menu bar, then click Hide

Frame Edges.

2 Drag and drop the Green swatch on top of

the blue frame, as shown in Figure 26, then

release the mouse button

The frame is filled with green

3 Click the Toggles visibility button on

the Photo layer in the Layers palette to hide

the background image.

4 Drag the Pink swatch to the inside of the

large white frame.

The fill changes to pink.

You dragged and dropped colors from the Swatches

palette to objects in the document window.

FIGURE 26

Dragging and dropping a color swatch

Using the Color Picker

In addition to using the Toolbox and the Swatches palette to apply colors, you can

use the Color Picker, which lets you choose and mix colors using an interface similar

to Photoshop Select the object you want to fill, then double-click the Fill or Stroke

box in the Toolbox to open the Color Picker In the color spectrum, click or drag to

select a color, drag the color slider triangles, or type values in the text boxes To save

the color as a swatch, click Add CMYK Swatch, Add RGB Swatch, or Add Lab Swatch

The color appears in the Swatches palette, displaying its color values as a name

Use the Swap Fill and Stroke and Default Fill and Stroke buttons

1 Click the Selection Tool , if necessary, select the pink frame, then note the Fill and Stroke buttons in the Toolbox.

The Fill button is activated—it is in front of the Stroke button.

2 Press [X] to activate the Stroke button in the Toolbox, then click Gold in the Swatches

palette.

3 Click the Swap Fill and Stroke button .

In the selected frame, the fill and stroke colors are swapped.

4 Click the Default Fill and Stroke button The fill color of the selected frame is removed and replaced with no fill, and the stroke changes to black as shown in Figure 27.

5 Press [X] to activate the Fill button, click the

Paper swatch in the Swatches palette, then

compare your work to Figure 28.

You used the Swap Fill and Stroke and Default Fill and Stroke buttons to explore ways to modify your document, and then applied the Paper swatch to the center frame

FIGURE 27

Applying the Default Fill and Stroke button to the frame

FIGURE 28

Viewing an object with a Paper fill color

Green fill of backmost frame shows through the frame filled with no color

Stroke of frame is black and fill of frame is gone

Frame with Paper fill

Apply color to text

1 Click the Selection Tool , click the

TWIST & SHOUT text frame, then click the

Formatting affects text button in the

Toolbox.

As shown in Figure 29, the Fill and Stroke

buttons display the letter T, indicating that

any color changes will affect the text in the

selected frame, not the frame itself.

2 Click Gold in the Swatches palette.

3 Click the A•MAZE•ING text frame, then note

that the Formatting affects container button

is active in the Toolbox because you have

selected a frame

4 Click the Type Tool , then select all of

the text in the A•MAZE•ING text frame.

TIP When you select text with the Type

Tool, the Formatting affects text button in

the Toolbox is automatically activated.

5 Click Pink in the Swatches palette.

6 Click the Selection Tool , click the

MAVERICK text frame, then click the

Formatting affects text button in

the Swatches palette.

7 Click the Green 25% swatch in the Swatches

palette so that your document resembles

Figure 30.

You explored two methods for applying color to

text, the first by selecting text with the Selection

Tool, then clicking the Formatting affects text

but-ton before choosing a color, and the second by

selecting text with the Type Tool, then choosing a

new color.

FIGURE 29

Toolbox with the Formatting affects text button activated

FIGURE 30

Viewing the colors applied to text

Fill button

Formatting affects text button

Create black shadow text

1 Click the Toggles visibility button (in its off state) on the Photo layer in the Layers palette, then assess the legibility of the text

in the three text frames against the back-ground graphic.

The text is legible, but some letters like the

M in Maverick are more difficult to distin-guish from the background.

2 Click the Original Black Text layer in the Layers palette, click the Layers palette list

arrow, then click Duplicate Layer “Original Black Text”.

3 Type Color Headlines in the Name text box, click the Color list arrow, then click Orange,

so that your Duplicate Layer dialog box resembles Figure 31.

4 Click OK, then hide the Original Black

Text layer.

5. Delete the Fall 2005 text frame on the Color Headlines layer since you will not need a duplicate of this text

6. Hide the Color Headlines layer, then show the Original Black Text layer.

7 Press and hold [Alt] (Win) or [option] (Mac), then click the Original Black Text

layer in the Layers palette.

TIP Pressing and holding [Alt] (Win) or [option] (Mac) when clicking a layer selects all objects on the layer.

(continued)

FIGURE 31

Duplicate Layer dialog box

8 Click the Formatting affects text button

in the Swatches palette, then apply a 100%

black fill to all the text.

9. Show the Color Headlines layer, press and

hold [Alt] (Win) or [option] (Mac), then click

the Color Headlines layer.

The three text frames on the Color Headlines

layer are now selected.

10 Click Object on the menu bar, point to

Transform, then click Move.

11 Click the Preview check box to add a check

mark (if necessary), type -.04 in the

Horizontal text box, type -.04 in the Vertical

text box, click OK, deselect all, then compare

your work to Figure 32.

You duplicated a layer containing text You

changed the fill color of the text on the lower layer

to black, then repositioned the colored text on the

upper layer so that the black text acts as a shadow.

By doing so, you added contrast to the colored

text, making it more legible against the color

graphic.

FIGURE 32

Viewing the colored text with a black shadow

Black text placed behind colored text adds contrast

Modify and delete swatches

1 Drag the Gold swatch onto the Green frame

to change its fill color to Gold.

2 Double-click the Gold swatch in the

Swatches palette.

3 Click the Preview check box to add a check mark (if necessary), then drag the Black

slider to 20%.

You may need to move the Swatch Options dialog box to see the effect on the document page.

4 Drag the Black slider to 5%, then drag the

Yellow slider to 50%.

5 Click OK, then compare your work to

Figure 33.

All usages of the Gold swatch—the frame and the “Twist & Shout” text—are updated with the modification.

6 Drag the Gold swatch to the Delete Swatch

button in the Swatches palette.

7 Click the Defined Swatch list arrow, click

Pink, as shown in Figure 34, then click OK.

As shown in Figure 35, all usages of the Gold swatch in the document are replaced

by the Pink swatch.

You modified a swatch and noted that it updated throughout the document You then deleted the swatch, replacing all of its usages with a different swatch.

FIGURE 34

Delete Swatch dialog box

FIGURE 33

Viewing the modifications to the Gold swatch

FIGURE 35

Viewing the result of replacing gold with pink

Gold swatch will be replaced with Pink

L E S S O N 3

Spot colors are non-process inks that are manufactured by companies Though printing is based on the four process col-ors, CMYK, it is not limited to them It is important to understand that though combinations of CMYK inks can produce a wide variety of colors—enough to repro-duce any color photograph quite well—

they can’t produce every color For this reason, and others, designers often turn to spot colors

Imagine that you are an art director designing the masthead for the cover of a new magazine You have decided that the masthead will be an electric blue, vivid and eye-catching If you were working with process tints only, you would have a prob-lem First, you would find that the almost-neon blue that you want to achieve is not within the CMYK range; it can’t be printed Even if it could, you would have

an even bigger problem with consistency issues You would want that blue to be the same blue on every issue of the magazine,

month after month But offset printing is never perfect; variations in dot size are fac-tored in As the cover is printed, the blue color in the masthead will certainly vary, sometimes sharply

Designers and printers use spot colors to solve this problem Spot colors are special pre-mixed inks that are printed separately from process inks The color range of spot colors far exceeds that of CMYK Spot col-ors also offer consistent color throughout

a print run

The design and print worlds refer to spot colors by a number of names:

■ Non-process inks: Refers to the fact that spot colors are not created using the process inks—CMYK

■ Fifth color: Refers to the fact that the spot color is often printed in addition

to the four process inks Note, how-ever, that a spot color is not necessar-ily the “fifth” color For example, many

“two-color” projects call for black plus one spot color

In this lesson, you will create and apply

spot colors, and import graphics that

con-tain spot colors.

WORK WITH

SPOT COLORS