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3 Click any object that has the fill and stroke attributes you want to sample. A loaded eyedropper appears , and the selected objects are automatically updated with the fill and stroke attributes of the object you clicked.

4 To change other objects to the same attributes, click the objects with the loaded eyedropper. If an object is stroked and not filled, be sure to click the object’s outline.

Pick up new attributes when the Eyedropper tool is loaded

1 Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac is loaded. The Eyedropper tool reverses direction, and appears empty , to indicate that it’s ready to pick up new attributes.

2 Without releasing the Alt or Option key, click an object containing the attributes that you want to copy, and then release the Alt or Option key so that you can drop the new attributes on another object.

Change Eyedropper tool settings

1 In the Toolbox, double-click the Eyedropper tool .

2 Select the attributes in the Fill Settings and Stroke Settings sections that you want to copy with the Eyedropper tool,

To pick up only the fill or stroke color of an object and no other attributes, Shift-click the object with the Eyedropper tool. When you apply the color to another object, only the fill or stroke color is applied, depending on whether the stroke or fill is on top in the toolbar.

Apply colors to grayscale images

You can add color to a placed grayscale image in InDesign.

1 Make sure the image is saved as a grayscale or bitmap image and that it’s saved in PSD, TIFF, BMP, or JPG format.

In Photoshop, you can choose Image > Mode > Bitmap or Image > Mode > Grayscale.

2 Click the Content Grabber, or use the Direct Selection tool to select the image.

3 Select a color from the Swatches panel or Color panel.

If the image is in PSD format, it may contain multiple layers, but the bottom layer must be opaque. You cannot apply color to a PSD image with a transparent background in InDesign. In addition, the grayscale image cannot contain alpha or spot channels.

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apply them to your document. Swatches are similar to paragraph and character styles; any change you make to a swatch affects all objects to which the swatch is applied. Swatches make it easier to modify color schemes without having to locate and adjust each individual object.

When the fill or stroke of selected text or an object contains a color or gradient applied from the Swatches panel, the applied swatch is highlighted in the Swatches panel. Swatches you create are associated only with the current document. Each document can have a different set of swatches stored in its Swatches panel.

When working with a prepress service provider, swatches let you clearly identify spot colors. You can also specify color settings in a preflight profile to determine which color settings work with your printer.

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Six CMYK-defined colors appear in the default Swatches panel: cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green, and blue.

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When you print a book whose chapters contain conflicting swatches, you can instruct InDesign to synchronize

settings with the master document. (See “ Synchronize book documents ” on page

More Help topics

“ Understanding spot and process colors ” on page 463

“ Import swatches ” on page 474

“ Mixing inks ” on page 485

“ Tints ” on page 479

Swatch types

The Swatches panel stores the following types of swatches:

Colors Icons on the Swatches panel identify the spot and process color types, and LAB

CMYK , and Mixed Ink color modes.

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Tints A percentage value next to a swatch in the Swatches panel indicates a tint of a spot or process color.

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Gradients An icon on the Swatches panel indicates whether a gradient is radial or linear .

None The None swatch removes the stroke or fill from an object. You can’t edit or remove this swatch.

Paper Paper is a built-in swatch that simulates the paper color on which you’re printing. Objects behind a papercolored object won’t print where the paper-colored object overlaps them. Instead, the color of the paper on which you print shows through. You can edit the Paper color to match your paper stock by double-clicking it in the Swatches panel. Use the Paper color for previewing only—it will not be printed on a composite printer or in color separations.

You can’t remove this swatch. Do not apply the Paper swatch to remove color from an object. Use the None swatch instead.

Note: If the Paper color is not working as described, and you are printing to a non-PostScript printer, try switching your printer driver to Raster Graphics mode.

Black Black is a built-in, 100% process color black defined using the CMYK color model. You can’t edit or remove this swatch. By default, all occurrences of Black overprint (print on top of) underlying inks, including text characters at any size. You can disable this behavior.

Registration Registration is a built-in swatch that causes objects to print on every separation from a PostScript printer. For example, registration marks use the Registration color, so that printing plates can be aligned precisely on a press. You cannot edit or remove this swatch.

You can also add colors from any color library to the Swatches panel so that they are saved with your document.

Customize swatch display

You can control the size of swatches and whether the name displays with the swatch.

1 In the Swatches panel menu, choose one of the following:

• Name displays a small swatch next to the name of the swatch. The icons to the right of the name show the color model (CMYK, RGB, and so on), and whether the color is a spot color, process color, registration color, or none.

• Small Name displays compacted swatch panel rows.

• Small Swatch or Large Swatch displays only the swatch. A triangle with a dot in the corner of the swatch indicates that the color is a spot color. A triangle without a dot indicates a process color.

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2 To set what type of swatches display, click one of the following buttons at the bottom of the Swatches panel:

• Show All Swatches displays all color, tint, and gradient swatches.

• Show Color Swatches displays only process color, spot color, mixed ink color, and tint swatches.

• Show Gradient Swatches displays only gradient swatches.

Note: The None swatch is always displayed regardless of which button you click.

Create color swatches

Swatches can include spot or process colors, mixed inks (process colors mixed with one or more spot colors), RGB or

Lab colors, gradients, or tints.

When you place an image that contains spot colors, the colors are automatically added as swatches to the Swatches panel. You can apply these swatches to objects in your document, but you cannot redefine or delete the swatches.

Before you create swatches, learn which settings are appropriate for your printer service provider. You can specify color settings in a preflight profile to highlight color settings that don’t work with your printer.


“ Using colors from imported graphics ” on page 487

“ Preflighting files before handoff ” on page 617

Create a new color swatch

1 Choose New Color Swatch in the Swatches panel menu.

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For Color Type, choose the method you’ll use to print document colors on a printing press.

For Swatch Name, do one of the following:

• If you chose Process as the color type and you want the name always to describe the color values, make sure that

Name With Color Value is selected.

• If you chose Process as the color type and you want to name the color yourself, make sure that Name With Color

Value is deselected, and type a Swatch Name.

• If you chose Spot, type a Swatch Name.

4 For Color Mode, choose the mode you want to use in defining the color. Avoid changing the mode after you define a color.

5 Do one of the following:

• Drag the sliders to change the color values. You can also enter numeric values in the text boxes next to the color sliders.

• For spot colors, choose from color libraries in the Color Mode menu.

6 If an out-of-gamut alert icon appears, and you want to use the in-gamut color closest to the color you originally specified, click the small color box next to the alert icon.


• Click Add to add the swatch and define another one. Click Done when finished.

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To directly define a spot color using the New Swatch button in the Swatches panel, make sure that no swatches are selected, and then hold down Alt+Ctrl (Windows) or Option+Command (Mac OS) as you click the New Swatch button .

Create a swatch based on the color of an object

1 Select the object.

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In the Swatches panel, do one of the following:

Click the New Swatch button and double-click the resulting new swatch.

• Choose New Color Swatch in the Swatches panel menu.

The selected color or gradient appears in the Swatches panel and in the Fill box or Stroke box in the Toolbox, and is applied to the fill or stroke of all selected objects.

Add unnamed colors to the Swatches panel

While you can create colors using the Color panel or Color Picker, unnamed colors are more difficult to edit later and to use consistently. Use the Add Unnamed Colors option to search for unnamed colors applied to objects within the document, and then add them to the Swatches panel. Colors are automatically named according to their CMYK, RGB, or Lab components.

❖ In the Swatches panel, choose Add Unnamed Colors.

Manage swatches

You can edit, duplicate, and delete swatches in the Swatches panel.


“ Import swatches ” on page 474

“ Inks, separations, and screen frequency ” on page 642

“ Mixing inks ” on page 485

Edit the default colors in the Swatches panel

You can change the swatches that appear by default in new documents.

1 Close all open documents.

2 Edit the swatches you want to change in the Swatches panel.

Duplicate a swatch

Duplicating swatches can be useful when you want to create a warmer or cooler variation of an existing color. Note that duplicating a spot color will result in an additional spot color printing plate.

❖ Do one of the following:

• Select a swatch, and choose Duplicate Swatch in the Swatches panel menu.

• Select a swatch, and click the New Swatch button at the bottom of the panel.

• Drag a swatch to the New Swatch button at the bottom of the panel.

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Edit a swatch

You can change individual attributes of a swatch by using the Swatch Options dialog box. Additional options are available when editing mixed ink swatches and mixed ink groups.

1 In the Swatches panel, select a swatch, and do one of the following:

• Double-click the swatch.

• Choose Swatch Options in the Swatches panel menu.

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Control swatch names

By default, the name of a process color swatch is derived from the values of the color’s components. For example, if you create a red process color using 10% cyan, 75% magenta, 100% yellow, and 0% black, its swatch will be named

C=10 M=75 Y=100 K=0 by default. This makes it easier to identify the composition of process colors.

By default, the name of a process color swatch automatically updates when you change its CMYK values; you can switch this option off or on for individual swatches as needed. As with any swatch you define, you can change the name of a process color swatch at any time.

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Double-click a process color in the Swatches panel.

• To let InDesign rename the swatch when you adjust its CMYK percentages, make sure that the Name With Color

Value option is selected.

• To rename a swatch when you adjust its CMYK values, make sure that the Name With Color Value option is deselected.

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The new swatch is automatically renamed New Color Swatch (this has a number following it if more than one New

Color Swatch exists) when this option is deselected. You can change this name manually.

Delete individual swatches

When you delete a swatch that has been applied to an object in the document, InDesign prompts you for a replacement swatch. You can designate an existing or unnamed swatch. If you delete a swatch used as the basis of a tint or mixed ink, you will be prompted to choose a replacement.

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Select one or more swatches.

Do one of the following:

• Choose Delete Swatch in the Swatches panel menu.

• Click the Delete icon at the bottom of the Swatches panel.

Note: You cannot delete spot colors that are used by placed graphics in the document. To delete these colors, you must first delete the graphic. However, in rare cases the spot color cannot be removed even though the graphic has been removed. In such instances, use File > Export to create an InDesign Markup (IDML) file. Then re-open that file in

InDesign.

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• To replace all instances of the swatch with another swatch, click Defined Swatch, and choose a swatch in the menu.

• To replace all instances of the swatch with an equivalent unnamed color, click Unnamed Swatch.

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Delete all unused swatches

1 Choose Select All Unused in the Swatches panel menu. Only swatches that are not currently used in the active file will be selected.

2 Click the Delete icon.

Merge swatches

When you import swatches or copy items from other documents, you may end up with duplicate swatches that may be applied to different objects. Use the Merge Swatches command to combine duplicate swatches.

1 In the Swatches panel, select two or more duplicate swatches.

The first swatch you select is the one the survives (gets merged into).

2 Choose Merge Swatches in the Swatches panel menu.

Save swatches for use in other documents

To use your color swatches in other files or to share them with other designers, you can save swatches in an Adobe

Swatch Exchange (.ase) file. InDesign, as well as Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, can import swatches from a

Colorbook file.

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Choose Save Swatches in the Swatches panel menu.

Specify a name and location for the file, and click Save.

Share swatches between applications

You can share the solid swatches you create in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign by saving a swatch library for exchange. The colors appear exactly the same across applications as long as your color settings are synchronized.

1 In the Swatches panel, create the process and spot color swatches you want to share, and remove any swatches you don’t want to share.

Note: You cannot share the following types of swatches between applications: patterns, gradients, mixed inks and tints, and the Registration swatch from Illustrator or InDesign; and book color references, HSB, XYZ, duotone, monitorRGB, opacity, total ink, and webRGB swatches from Photoshop. These types of swatches are automatically excluded when you save swatches.

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Select Save Swatches from the Swatches panel menu, and save the swatch libraries in an easily accessible location.

Load the swatch library into the Swatches panel for Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign.

Import swatches

You can import colors and gradients from other documents, adding either all or some of the swatches to the Swatches panel. You can load swatches from InDesign files (.indd), InDesign templates (.indt), Illustrator files (.ai or .eps), and

Adobe Swatch Exchange files (.ase) created by InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop. Adobe Swatch Exchange files contain swatches saved in the Adobe Swatch Exchange format.

InDesign also includes color libraries from other color systems, such as the PANTONE Process Color System®.

Note: Spot colors used by imported EPS, PDF, TIFF, and Adobe Photoshop (PSD) files are also added to the Swatches panel.

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“ Kuler panel ” on page 477

Import selected swatches from a file

1 Choose New Color Swatch from the Swatches panel menu.

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Choose Other Library from the Color Mode list, and then select the file from which you want to import swatches.

Click Open.

Select the swatches you want import.

Import all swatches from a file

1 From the Swatches panel menu, choose Load Swatches.

2 Double-click an InDesign document.

Copy swatches between InDesign documents

You can copy or drag a swatch (or objects with a swatch applied) from one document to another. When you do so, the swatch is added to the destination document’s Swatches panel. If you want to copy the swatch’s tints and gradients as well, you need to copy the original object, not just the swatch.

❖ Do one of the following:

• Copy an object into the current document using drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste.

• Select the swatches you want to copy and drag them from the Swatches panel to the document window of another

InDesign document.

Note: If you drag a swatch that has an identical name as an existing swatch (including capitalization) but has different color values, InDesign renames the swatch “[original swatch name] 2.”

Load swatches from predefined custom color libraries

You can select from a range of color libraries—including the PANTONE Process Color System, Toyo™ Ink Electronic

Color Finder™ 1050, the Focoltone® color system, the Trumatch™ color swatch system, the DIC Process Color Note, and libraries created especially for web use. Before using swatches from a color matching system, consult with your prepress service providers to determine which ones they support.

1 Choose New Color Swatch from the Swatches panel menu.


• Choose the library file from the Color Mode list.

• Choose Other Library from the Color Mode list, locate the library file, and then click Open.

3 Select one or more swatches from the library, and click Add. (To exit the dialog box without adding swatches,

4 When you are done adding swatches, click Done.

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Color libraries installed with InDesign

InDesign installs color libraries for the color matching systems described below. You can install additional color libraries and load swatches from them in InDesign.

ANPA Color Consists of 300 colors selected by ANPA (American Newspaper Publishers Association). Colors in this library are primarily used as spot colors in newspapers.

DIC Color Provides 1280 CMYK spot colors from the DIC Process Color Note. Colors may be matched against the DIC

Color Guide , published by Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, Inc. For more information, contact Dainippon Ink &

Chemicals, Inc., in Tokyo, Japan.

Focoltone Consists of 763 CMYK colors. You can use Focoltone colors to help avoid prepress trapping and registration problems by viewing the Focoltone charts that show the overprints that make up the colors.

A swatch book with specifications for process and spot colors, overprint charts, and a chip book for marking up layouts are available from Focoltone. For more information, contact Focoltone International, Ltd., in Stafford, United

Kingdom.

HKS Use when your job specifies colors from the HKS color system, which is used in Europe.

PANTONE ® PANTONE® Colors are the worldwide standards for spot color reproduction. In 2000, a major revision was made to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® Color guides. 147 new solid colors and seven additional metallic colors have been added to the System to now include a total of 1,114 colors. PANTONE Color guides and chip books are now printed on coated, uncoated, and matte paper stocks to ensure accurate visualization of the printed result and better on-press control.

You can print a solid PANTONE Color in CMYK. To compare a solid PANTONE Color to its closest process color match, use the PANTONE solid to process guide. The CMYK screen tint percentages are printed under each color.

The guide is now printed on a brighter coated stock and includes comparisons of the 147 new solid colors to CMYK.

PANTONE process guides let you choose from over 3,000 process combinations now printed on coated and uncoated stocks. Displayed in chromatic order in fan-guide format, it's easy to select colors and specify CMYK screen values.

For more information, contact Pantone, Inc., in Carlstadt, New Jersey, U.S.A.

System (Windows) Includes 256 colors of the Windows default 8-bit panel, which is based on a uniform sampling of

RGB colors.

System (Mac OS) colors.

Toyo Color Finder Includes 1050 colors based on the most common printing inks used in Japan. You can use the Toyo

94 Color Finder or the newer Toyo Color Finder. Consult the color guide that illustrates printed samples of Toyo Ink.

This color guide is available at print publishers and graphic arts supply stores. For more information, contact Toyo Ink

Manufacturing Co., Ltd., in Tokyo, Japan.

Trumatch Provides predictable CMYK color matching with over 2000 achievable, computer-generated colors.

Trumatch colors cover the visible spectrum of the CMYK gamut in even steps. The Trumatch Color Finder displays up to 40 tints and shades of each hue, each originally created in four-color process and each reproducible in four colors on electronic imagesetters. In addition, four-color grays using different hues are included. For more information, contact Trumatch Inc., in New York, New York, U.S.A.

Web Includes the 216 RGB web-safe colors most often used by web browsers to display 8-bit images. This library helps you create artwork for the web using colors that display consistently across Windows and Macintosh systems.

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Kuler panel

About the Kuler panel

The Kuler™ panel is your portal to groups of colors, or themes, created by an online community of designers. You can use it to browse thousands of themes on Kuler™, and then download some to edit or to include in your own projects.

You can also use the Kuler panel to create and save themes, and then share them with the Kuler community by uploading them.

The Kuler panel is available in Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Flash® Professional, Adobe InDesign®, Adobe Illustrator®, and Adobe Fireworks®. The panel is not available in the French versions of these products.

For a video on the Kuler panel, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4088_xp .

For an article on Kuler and color inspiration, see Veerle Pieters' blog at http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/adobe_kuler_update_and_color_tips/ .

Browse themes

An Internet connection is required to browse themes online.

Search themes

1 Select Window > Extensions > Kuler, and then select the Browse panel.

2 Do either of the following:

• In the Search box, enter the name of a theme, tag, or creator.

Note: Use only alphanumerical characters (Aa-Zz, 0-9) in searches.

• Filter the search results by selecting an option from the pop-up menus above the results.

View a theme online on Kuler

1 In the Browse panel, select a theme in the search results.

2 Click the triangle on the right side of the theme and select View Online in Kuler.

Saving frequent searches

1 Select the Custom option in the first pop-up menu in the Browse panel.

2 In the dialog box that opens, enter your search terms and save them.

When you want to run the search, select it from the first pop-up menu.

To delete a saved search, select the Custom option in the pop-up menu. Then clear the searches you want to delete, and click Save.

Working with themes

You can use the Kuler panel to create or edit themes, and include them in your projects.

Note: In Illustrator, you create and edit themes with the Edit Color/Recolor Artwork dialog box, rather than the Create panel. For details, see Illustrator Help.

Add a theme to the Swatches panel of your application

1 In the Browse panel, select a theme you want to use.

2 Click the triangle on the right side of the theme and select Add To Swatches Panel.

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You can also add a theme from the Create panel by clicking the Add Selected Theme To Swatches button.

Edit a theme

1 In the Browse panel, locate a theme you want to edit and then double-click the theme in the search results. The theme opens in the Create panel.

2 In the Create panel, edit the theme using the tools at your disposal. For more information, see the Create Panel

Tools topic that follows.


• Save your theme by clicking the Save Theme button.

• Add the theme to your application’s Swatches panel by clicking the Add To Swatches Panel button at the bottom of the panel.

• Upload the theme to the Kuler service by clicking the Upload button at the bottom of the panel.

Create panel tools

The Create panel provides a variety of tools to create or edit themes.

• Select a harmony rule from the Select Rule pop-up menu. The harmony rule uses the base color as the basis for generating the colors in the color group. For example, if you choose a blue base color and the Complementary harmony rule, a color group is created using the base color, blue, and its complement, red.

• Select the Custom rule to create a theme using free-form adjustments.

• Manipulate the colors in the color wheel. As you make your adjustments, the selected harmony rule continues to govern the colors generated for the color group.

• Move the Brightness slider beside the wheel to adjust the color brightness.

• Set the base color by dragging the Base color marker (the largest, double-ringed color marker) around the wheel.

You can also set the base color by adjusting the color sliders at the bottom of the dialog box.

• Set one of the four other colors in the color group as the base color. Select the color’s swatch and click the bull’s-eye button below the color group.

• Set the host application’s foreground/background color or stroke/fill color as the base color. Click one of the first two buttons below the color group.

• Remove a color from the color group by selecting the color’s swatch and clicking the Remove Color button below the color group. Add a new color by selecting an empty color swatch and clicking the Add Color button.

• Try different color effects by selecting a new harmony rule and by moving the markers in the color wheel.

• Double-click any of the swatches in the color group to set the active color (foreground/background or stroke/fill) in your application. If the application doesn't have an active or selected color feature, the Kuler panel sets the foreground color or the fill color as appropriate.

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