Hi there. In this video we're going to look at adding
these 60 colors over here to InDesign.
We're looking at color in general.
It's a little bit long video,
but it's the stuff you need to know if you're going to
be getting into InDesign production.
Let's go and add some premade colors.
Before we go any further,
let's just ensure your screen is looking like mine.
At the top here, go to Essentials.
If yours says something else, it may say Advanced or something else,
click up in this random area at the top here and click "Essentials".
I'm pretty sure on a PC it's over here as well and
even in early version it was a little way over here on the left, double-check.
But find something that looks like that,
make sure it's on Essentials and where it drops down,
make sure you click on "Reset Essentials" as well.
That means it just gets us back to square one.
This is handy for when you doing something and you
accidentally drag this and it ends up in a weird spot down,
there is a white spot there, it is there and this book goes
there and everything's about mixed up, and you get it lost.
Come back to this video and go to "Essentials" and
got to "Reset Essentials" and everything comes back to normal.
What we'll also do for this course is see these double arrows here,
I prefer to have this group of tabs
always out rather than like little clickable in and out boxes.
If you've got a really small screen,
you might have to keep them all pushed in.
Let's ignore this little thing over here for the moment,
that's something I've added for us to write later on.
What we're going to do when we are starting a new job is we've created a new page,
but one of the first thing you should do now is create a new CC Library.
You might do CC Libraries per client rather than per job.
If you're looking at one company, you might just have one.
You can see all my libraries here, I've got loads of them.
All they are is a place to store things like you can see,
in this case, colors, fonts, images.
The cool thing about it is that it's shared across all the Adobe products.
You might be only using InDesign,
but if you start using Photoshop,
Illustrator, this library is in there as well so you can share these colors across.
What we're going to do is CC Libraries.
We can use this little drop-down.
You'll just probably set to my library.
I've got a couple of my libraries for some reason,
but you've got one.
I'm going to create a new library for this course.
I'm going to call this one Great at Heart, you do the same.
Let's click "Create" It's just a nice empty Library at the moment.
But what it's going to do is when we add our colors,
we'll add them to the library at the same time.
When we bring in images and icons,
they'll go in there as well.
To add colors, we're going to add corporate colors.
If you're just playing around,
you want to mix up any color swatches,
if I highlight this text here and just go,
what might happen is, in this case,
you can see here that nice little rainbow thing that
was there a second ago is now this black and white.
You can have switched it up here in
this little flat menu back to RGB and you'll get that color thing back again.
That happens quite a bit while you're working in InDesign.
But if you've got no design at the moment,
and you're randomly picking colors for the client or yourself,
you can just use this little eyedropper done here and just
randomly pick colors, and that might be great.
But say we working for a client that has specific color needs,
so we're going to have to put in their corporate colors.
Let's go and do that now.
One of the things we'll look at is,
Swatches are pre-made colors.
Now InDesign is giving you a couple of pre-made ones,
there is none, empty box.
There's Registration, and reasonably complicated,
but at our level here, just never ever use it.
I never use Registration,
we'll look at it a little bit more in our advanced class,
we'll look at Registration and plates,
but just ignore that one for the moment.
What you want to do is use black, not Registration.
Black, and then there's white,
they call it paper because you'd imagine if you printing,
if I printed this came and I was expecting this to be white,
but I put blue paper in my printer,
it's not going actually to be white it's going to be blue of the paper.
That's why they're clever with the word paper there and not white,
but it means white.
Then they went and mixed in some really awful colors.
These are there by default, you can't delete them.
You can select them all and say goodbye with little trashcan,
we'll leave them there for the moment.
What we want to do is mix our own colors.
Now, you're going to have to find out what your corporate colors are.
You might be working in a company and they've got a corporate manual,
and it lists out their colors.
You might have to ask the marketing department what they are,
or the designer that was working there or working with you.
You're going to have to figure out what these colors are.
Now to create a swatch, go into this little flat out menu here,
in the swatches panel, and there's one that top hits his new color swatch.
If it doesn't have anything,
sometimes I've being on my type two and I've got take,
selected and it's freaking out a little bit.
What I can do is just go back to my arrow and I'll click that from the background.
Now, I can go through and get a new color swatch.
I'll pretend like I did that on purpose to show you a lesson but really it just got lost.
Let's click on this top one here says, "Name with Color Value. "
If you leave that on, you're going to have colors like this which aren't very useful,
they're actual code for them.
Especially when you're dealing with a client, say like me,
I've worked for hundreds of companies so if I'm typing great,
it could be great from any company.
I'm going to untick this and I'm looking for the Great at Heart.
I'm just putting a little acronym in there.
If you're working with Disney put in Disney Great.
I'm working with Great at Heart, Red.
What we're going to do is the color mode.
Now we're going to be using RGB in this class.
You might be looking at corporate manual and you see CMYK,
the times where we use each of them,
RGB is probably the most common,
especially if you're going to be designing something that it's
going to be viewed on a screen.
RGB is red, green, blue,
and that's what your screen uses to display colors,
CMYK is what your printer uses to display colors.
You'll notice it's a lot less because if you've ever printed
something from your laptop and it looks awesome,
and then it prints out in the printer just a little bit washed out,
it's because of CMYK.
RGB luckily has a bigger a color field.
It also has light coming out of it,
luminance because your laptop screen is all
brighten and it got light in it so it can achieve those colors like that.
Like toxic green or like a Madonna pink RGB.
When you'd use CMYK is when you go into
a commercial printer or an offset printer, they call it,
and that depends on what you working if
you're doing stuff and it's going to be printed in the office,
same to RGB, office printers love RGB,
even if they're lazy color printers,
they'll like RGB more.
Certainly if you're getting like 10,000 printed
at a large printing house, they'll expect CMYK.
They look very similar in terms of their colors,
but their codes are slightly different.
We're going to use RGB and here are the RGB colors that I've got.
We're going to list all these out.
I'm going to put in 255 for the first and 99 and then 88.
You see it's still a pink, but if I click out here,
one of the other ones, it changes to my swatch.
What I want to do is I'm going to add it to my library at the same time,
Great at Heart you might have a different one, lots of different ones.
I'm going to add to My Great at Heart at the same time.
If you're confused by libraries and you just hate them,
you don't want to use them, you can untick this.
Just click "Add" rather than "OK".
Why? Just means that keeps us open so I can add more colors.
This one's going to be Green at Hearts and this one's going to be the yellow.
Add another one, 255, I'm tabbing down.
We'll click on the next box, 145.
Actually don't click anything because it's pink not yellow.
I think I left the 2 on the front of this one.
Ignore the notes over here it should be 255, 255, 145.
I'm going to click "Add".
You can see there it appears in my libraries and also
appears down here my swatches and both places.
What I want you to do now is pause and go through add these.
I'm going to get Taylor our wonderful editor to go through and speed this up.
I'm going to insert mine,
see then [inaudible]. Here we are.
When you're finished, I can click "Add" or click "OK" either way,
it closes it down.
Now we need to click "Ok" so it's finished.
Now, couple of things you might have clicked "OK" by accident,
how do you get back in there?
You just go back into the flat menu and say "New Color Swatch".
If like me, you've spelled one wrong,
I've left the green off it,
you can just double-click it,
and it opens up and put my n in, click "OK".
If you forgot to tick the box at the bottom,
you can select on these guy and see this little cloud icon here,
this will add it to the swatches over here.
That's the end of this super-duper,
long color nerd fest.
I realized we're a bit into this course and we still
just have a blank page, but it's okay.
That's it for this video,
we're going to move on to stealing colors from logos.
Just in case you don't know what the corporate speak is,
I'm going to show you a sneaky trick to go and do that.
Let's go do that in the next video.