Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 472)

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Color
Last updated 6/6/2015
Add these colors to the layout, add them to the Swatches panel. You can also save them to your Creative Cloud libraries .
1 Click on the Color Theme tool on the tool panel. You can use the shortcut I to toggle between the Color Theme tool
and the Eyedropper tool.
2 Click on any part of the layout to pick a color. You can also leverage colors from any artwork placed in Adobe
Photoshop, Illustrator, or any other file.
Color is retained once selected using the theme tool. After picking up colors, if you switch tool to perform some
other operation, say drawing any object, and then reselect the Color Theme tool, the theme picked up earlier would
be retained. Unless you press the ESC key to close the panel, the theme picked up is retained for reuse. On pressing
the ESC key, everything gets cleared.
3 Roll your mouse to observe areas marked automatically by InDesign where you can create a color theme from. Click
on a section and InDesign creates a color theme.
4 A color theme is made of 5 different colors. Click on the flyout menu to view the other color choices generated.
A Click to view all themes B Add the current color theme to swatches C Save to current CC Library
A color theme is made of 5 different colors. Click on the flyout menu (A from the image), to see the other theme
choices generated for the same color theme, such as Colorful, Bright, Deep, and Muted.
If you do not like the color theme generated, press the Esc key and try again, or press the Alt key to temporarily
switch to Pick mode to collect new theme.
Shift+Click to pick a single (precise) color as the base color for the theme. Color themes are generated based on
Adobe Color rules: Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary, Compound, Shades.
5 To apply the colors you can click on a single color on the Color Theme tool. Roll-over the mouse to the page item.
The Eyedropper appears half-full, click to change the fill or stroke.
When you roll over the mouse over text, the eyedropper changes to text. You can apply a color generated from the
Color Theme tool on text.
6 Double-click on the Color Theme tool. Colors picked and added to swatches honor document intent and will
automatically convert to appropriate color space before being added to swatches or been dropped on other objects.
Three options are provided to choose from
a Convert as per document Intent
b Convert to CMYK
c Convert to RGB.