Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 Classroom in a Book®

LESSON 4

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Creating and Applying Colors, Tints, and Gradients

In this introduction to working with colors, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Add colors to the Swatches palette.

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Apply colors to objects.

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Create dashed strokes.

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Create and apply a gradient swatch.

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Adjust the direction of the gradient blend.

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Create a tint.

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Create a spot color.

Getting started

In this lesson, you’ll work on a 2-page spread for a magazine article about origami. If

you’ve gone through the two previous lessons, the design of this document will look

somewhat familiar. The document includes two layers (Art and Text), two master pages

(B is based on A), and a separ ...