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Chapter 7. Using Color

In This Chapter

• Discovering color modes

• Finding out about swatches

• Using color for print

• Using color on the Web

Using color in your documents is probably one of the most important considerations you can make in your projects. The colors you use, the mode that you use them in, and even the way you select colors make a difference in the way you create a document and the final output of that document. Even though you can create a document that looks the same on a monitor in different color modes, how that file prints onto paper is a different matter. Color is a very broad subject, and in this chapter, you find out the basics of how color affects the projects you work on.

Figuring out what kinds of colors you're using is important, and this decision is greatly determined by what kind of output you've planned for the document. Different color modes are appropriate for work for the Web and work that you're having professionally printed. Monitors and printers have different modes for color, which means that you need to work with your files in different color modes (although you can change the mode after you start working on a file, if necessary). You may also find yourself in situations where very particular colors are required in your work. You may be working with specific colors that a company needs to match its logo, or creating an image that replicates how a building should be painted with specific colors of paint. You may need to use particular Pantone colors or color ...