Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 428)

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• 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 origi-
nally specified, click the small color box next to the alert icon.
7 Do one of the following:
• Click Add to add the swatch and define another one. Click Done when finished.
• Click OK to add the swatch and exit the dialog box.
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.
2 In the Toolbox or Swatches panel, select the Fill box or the Stroke box.
3 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.
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.
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.