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Adobe InDesign Basics

Adobe InDesign Basics Class Overview and OutlineLesson 3 Profile, Outline, and Assignment

The Rest of Working With Colour in InDesign CS

2. Swatches Palette3. Gradient Palette

The Colour Palette in InDesign CS

From Elisabetta Bruno

Practice Using the Colour Palette

Let's practice applying colours with the Colour Palette.
  1. Open a document, size and margins do not matter right now.
  2. Press D to get your default colours, which are nothing for the fill colour and black for the stroke colour. (Nothing is represented by a white box with a red stripe which goes across it).
  3. Draw a box.
  4. Play around with the Colour palette and apply different colours to your shape. Change fill, change stroke, etc. Change your colours by using the sliders (less precise) or by typing in the percentages (more precise).
  1. Colour Modes, Fill and Stroke Colours
  2. Practice Using the Colour Palette
  3. No CMYK Equivalent
  4. When to Use RGB or CMYK

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