1 00:00:06,620 --> 00:00:09,720 Hi there. In this video we're going to look at adding 2 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,440 these 60 colors over here to InDesign. 3 00:00:12,435 --> 00:00:13,685 We're looking at color in general. 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:14,880 It's a little bit long video, 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,420 but it's the stuff you need to know if you're going to 6 00:00:17,415 --> 00:00:20,495 be getting into InDesign production. 7 00:00:20,490 --> 00:00:24,270 Let's go and add some premade colors. 8 00:00:24,270 --> 00:00:26,310 Before we go any further, 9 00:00:26,310 --> 00:00:29,130 let's just ensure your screen is looking like mine. 10 00:00:29,130 --> 00:00:31,340 At the top here, go to Essentials. 11 00:00:31,335 --> 00:00:34,145 If yours says something else, it may say Advanced or something else, 12 00:00:34,140 --> 00:00:37,380 click up in this random area at the top here and click "Essentials". 13 00:00:37,380 --> 00:00:39,870 I'm pretty sure on a PC it's over here as well and 14 00:00:39,870 --> 00:00:42,830 even in early version it was a little way over here on the left, double-check. 15 00:00:42,825 --> 00:00:44,235 But find something that looks like that, 16 00:00:44,235 --> 00:00:47,615 make sure it's on Essentials and where it drops down, 17 00:00:47,610 --> 00:00:49,710 make sure you click on "Reset Essentials" as well. 18 00:00:49,710 --> 00:00:51,750 That means it just gets us back to square one. 19 00:00:51,750 --> 00:00:54,920 This is handy for when you doing something and you 20 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,560 accidentally drag this and it ends up in a weird spot down, 21 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,010 there is a white spot there, it is there and this book goes 22 00:01:01,010 --> 00:01:03,760 there and everything's about mixed up, and you get it lost. 23 00:01:03,755 --> 00:01:07,055 Come back to this video and go to "Essentials" and 24 00:01:07,050 --> 00:01:10,470 got to "Reset Essentials" and everything comes back to normal. 25 00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:13,280 What we'll also do for this course is see these double arrows here, 26 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,060 I prefer to have this group of tabs 27 00:01:16,055 --> 00:01:19,915 always out rather than like little clickable in and out boxes. 28 00:01:19,910 --> 00:01:21,290 If you've got a really small screen, 29 00:01:21,290 --> 00:01:24,340 you might have to keep them all pushed in. 30 00:01:24,335 --> 00:01:26,965 Let's ignore this little thing over here for the moment, 31 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:28,930 that's something I've added for us to write later on. 32 00:01:28,925 --> 00:01:32,455 What we're going to do when we are starting a new job is we've created a new page, 33 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:36,670 but one of the first thing you should do now is create a new CC Library. 34 00:01:36,665 --> 00:01:41,575 You might do CC Libraries per client rather than per job. 35 00:01:41,570 --> 00:01:44,000 If you're looking at one company, you might just have one. 36 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,950 You can see all my libraries here, I've got loads of them. 37 00:01:45,950 --> 00:01:48,800 All they are is a place to store things like you can see, 38 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,540 in this case, colors, fonts, images. 39 00:01:51,540 --> 00:01:54,470 The cool thing about it is that it's shared across all the Adobe products. 40 00:01:54,470 --> 00:01:56,060 You might be only using InDesign, 41 00:01:56,060 --> 00:01:57,530 but if you start using Photoshop, 42 00:01:57,530 --> 00:02:01,700 Illustrator, this library is in there as well so you can share these colors across. 43 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:03,850 What we're going to do is CC Libraries. 44 00:02:03,845 --> 00:02:05,095 We can use this little drop-down. 45 00:02:05,090 --> 00:02:07,090 You'll just probably set to my library. 46 00:02:07,085 --> 00:02:08,755 I've got a couple of my libraries for some reason, 47 00:02:08,750 --> 00:02:10,190 but you've got one. 48 00:02:10,190 --> 00:02:12,320 I'm going to create a new library for this course. 49 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:18,680 I'm going to call this one Great at Heart, you do the same. 50 00:02:18,675 --> 00:02:22,375 Let's click "Create" It's just a nice empty Library at the moment. 51 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:24,410 But what it's going to do is when we add our colors, 52 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:26,450 we'll add them to the library at the same time. 53 00:02:26,450 --> 00:02:28,730 When we bring in images and icons, 54 00:02:28,730 --> 00:02:30,150 they'll go in there as well. 55 00:02:30,145 --> 00:02:33,345 To add colors, we're going to add corporate colors. 56 00:02:33,345 --> 00:02:34,615 If you're just playing around, 57 00:02:34,610 --> 00:02:36,250 you want to mix up any color swatches, 58 00:02:36,250 --> 00:02:38,200 if I highlight this text here and just go, 59 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,580 what might happen is, in this case, 60 00:02:40,580 --> 00:02:42,290 you can see here that nice little rainbow thing that 61 00:02:42,290 --> 00:02:44,090 was there a second ago is now this black and white. 62 00:02:44,090 --> 00:02:46,010 You can have switched it up here in 63 00:02:46,010 --> 00:02:49,430 this little flat menu back to RGB and you'll get that color thing back again. 64 00:02:49,430 --> 00:02:52,160 That happens quite a bit while you're working in InDesign. 65 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,260 But if you've got no design at the moment, 66 00:02:54,260 --> 00:02:57,020 and you're randomly picking colors for the client or yourself, 67 00:02:57,020 --> 00:02:58,970 you can just use this little eyedropper done here and just 68 00:02:58,970 --> 00:03:01,510 randomly pick colors, and that might be great. 69 00:03:01,505 --> 00:03:04,715 But say we working for a client that has specific color needs, 70 00:03:04,710 --> 00:03:06,620 so we're going to have to put in their corporate colors. 71 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:08,250 Let's go and do that now. 72 00:03:08,245 --> 00:03:09,575 One of the things we'll look at is, 73 00:03:09,570 --> 00:03:11,690 Swatches are pre-made colors. 74 00:03:11,685 --> 00:03:14,375 Now InDesign is giving you a couple of pre-made ones, 75 00:03:14,375 --> 00:03:16,465 there is none, empty box. 76 00:03:16,460 --> 00:03:19,240 There's Registration, and reasonably complicated, 77 00:03:19,235 --> 00:03:21,515 but at our level here, just never ever use it. 78 00:03:21,515 --> 00:03:23,265 I never use Registration, 79 00:03:23,260 --> 00:03:25,590 we'll look at it a little bit more in our advanced class, 80 00:03:25,590 --> 00:03:27,830 we'll look at Registration and plates, 81 00:03:27,825 --> 00:03:29,615 but just ignore that one for the moment. 82 00:03:29,610 --> 00:03:32,690 What you want to do is use black, not Registration. 83 00:03:32,685 --> 00:03:34,235 Black, and then there's white, 84 00:03:34,230 --> 00:03:37,450 they call it paper because you'd imagine if you printing, 85 00:03:37,445 --> 00:03:40,885 if I printed this came and I was expecting this to be white, 86 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,330 but I put blue paper in my printer, 87 00:03:42,330 --> 00:03:45,410 it's not going actually to be white it's going to be blue of the paper. 88 00:03:45,410 --> 00:03:48,610 That's why they're clever with the word paper there and not white, 89 00:03:48,605 --> 00:03:50,405 but it means white. 90 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,970 Then they went and mixed in some really awful colors. 91 00:03:52,970 --> 00:03:54,970 These are there by default, you can't delete them. 92 00:03:54,965 --> 00:03:58,225 You can select them all and say goodbye with little trashcan, 93 00:03:58,220 --> 00:03:59,740 we'll leave them there for the moment. 94 00:03:59,735 --> 00:04:02,425 What we want to do is mix our own colors. 95 00:04:02,420 --> 00:04:06,100 Now, you're going to have to find out what your corporate colors are. 96 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:10,660 You might be working in a company and they've got a corporate manual, 97 00:04:10,655 --> 00:04:12,505 and it lists out their colors. 98 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:14,900 You might have to ask the marketing department what they are, 99 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:17,590 or the designer that was working there or working with you. 100 00:04:17,585 --> 00:04:20,875 You're going to have to figure out what these colors are. 101 00:04:20,870 --> 00:04:23,590 Now to create a swatch, go into this little flat out menu here, 102 00:04:23,590 --> 00:04:26,440 in the swatches panel, and there's one that top hits his new color swatch. 103 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,040 If it doesn't have anything, 104 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,830 sometimes I've being on my type two and I've got take, 105 00:04:30,830 --> 00:04:32,540 selected and it's freaking out a little bit. 106 00:04:32,540 --> 00:04:36,490 What I can do is just go back to my arrow and I'll click that from the background. 107 00:04:36,485 --> 00:04:39,145 Now, I can go through and get a new color swatch. 108 00:04:39,145 --> 00:04:43,585 I'll pretend like I did that on purpose to show you a lesson but really it just got lost. 109 00:04:43,585 --> 00:04:46,295 Let's click on this top one here says, "Name with Color Value. " 110 00:04:46,290 --> 00:04:50,630 If you leave that on, you're going to have colors like this which aren't very useful, 111 00:04:50,630 --> 00:04:52,130 they're actual code for them. 112 00:04:52,130 --> 00:04:54,610 Especially when you're dealing with a client, say like me, 113 00:04:54,605 --> 00:04:57,105 I've worked for hundreds of companies so if I'm typing great, 114 00:04:57,100 --> 00:04:58,880 it could be great from any company. 115 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,320 I'm going to untick this and I'm looking for the Great at Heart. 116 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,850 I'm just putting a little acronym in there. 117 00:05:04,850 --> 00:05:07,040 If you're working with Disney put in Disney Great. 118 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,010 I'm working with Great at Heart, Red. 119 00:05:10,010 --> 00:05:12,670 What we're going to do is the color mode. 120 00:05:12,665 --> 00:05:15,415 Now we're going to be using RGB in this class. 121 00:05:15,410 --> 00:05:19,740 You might be looking at corporate manual and you see CMYK, 122 00:05:19,735 --> 00:05:21,695 the times where we use each of them, 123 00:05:21,695 --> 00:05:23,915 RGB is probably the most common, 124 00:05:23,915 --> 00:05:26,125 especially if you're going to be designing something that it's 125 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,010 going to be viewed on a screen. 126 00:05:28,010 --> 00:05:29,440 RGB is red, green, blue, 127 00:05:29,435 --> 00:05:32,005 and that's what your screen uses to display colors, 128 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,470 CMYK is what your printer uses to display colors. 129 00:05:35,465 --> 00:05:37,945 You'll notice it's a lot less because if you've ever printed 130 00:05:37,940 --> 00:05:40,340 something from your laptop and it looks awesome, 131 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:42,800 and then it prints out in the printer just a little bit washed out, 132 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,030 it's because of CMYK. 133 00:05:45,030 --> 00:05:48,150 RGB luckily has a bigger a color field. 134 00:05:48,150 --> 00:05:49,700 It also has light coming out of it, 135 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:52,490 luminance because your laptop screen is all 136 00:05:52,490 --> 00:05:56,170 brighten and it got light in it so it can achieve those colors like that. 137 00:05:56,165 --> 00:05:59,735 Like toxic green or like a Madonna pink RGB. 138 00:05:59,735 --> 00:06:02,245 When you'd use CMYK is when you go into 139 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,360 a commercial printer or an offset printer, they call it, 140 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,120 and that depends on what you working if 141 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,640 you're doing stuff and it's going to be printed in the office, 142 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,240 same to RGB, office printers love RGB, 143 00:06:13,235 --> 00:06:16,015 even if they're lazy color printers, 144 00:06:16,010 --> 00:06:17,240 they'll like RGB more. 145 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,820 Certainly if you're getting like 10,000 printed 146 00:06:19,820 --> 00:06:22,970 at a large printing house, they'll expect CMYK. 147 00:06:22,970 --> 00:06:25,160 They look very similar in terms of their colors, 148 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,630 but their codes are slightly different. 149 00:06:26,630 --> 00:06:30,930 We're going to use RGB and here are the RGB colors that I've got. 150 00:06:30,930 --> 00:06:32,710 We're going to list all these out. 151 00:06:32,710 --> 00:06:38,810 I'm going to put in 255 for the first and 99 and then 88. 152 00:06:38,810 --> 00:06:42,020 You see it's still a pink, but if I click out here, 153 00:06:42,020 --> 00:06:44,620 one of the other ones, it changes to my swatch. 154 00:06:44,615 --> 00:06:47,935 What I want to do is I'm going to add it to my library at the same time, 155 00:06:47,930 --> 00:06:51,100 Great at Heart you might have a different one, lots of different ones. 156 00:06:51,095 --> 00:06:53,415 I'm going to add to My Great at Heart at the same time. 157 00:06:53,410 --> 00:06:55,430 If you're confused by libraries and you just hate them, 158 00:06:55,430 --> 00:06:57,590 you don't want to use them, you can untick this. 159 00:06:57,590 --> 00:06:59,500 Just click "Add" rather than "OK". 160 00:06:59,495 --> 00:07:03,565 Why? Just means that keeps us open so I can add more colors. 161 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,080 This one's going to be Green at Hearts and this one's going to be the yellow. 162 00:07:07,075 --> 00:07:10,805 Add another one, 255, I'm tabbing down. 163 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,900 We'll click on the next box, 145. 164 00:07:13,970 --> 00:07:18,020 Actually don't click anything because it's pink not yellow. 165 00:07:18,015 --> 00:07:20,805 I think I left the 2 on the front of this one. 166 00:07:20,805 --> 00:07:25,215 Ignore the notes over here it should be 255, 255, 145. 167 00:07:25,215 --> 00:07:27,485 I'm going to click "Add". 168 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,720 You can see there it appears in my libraries and also 169 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,720 appears down here my swatches and both places. 170 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,440 What I want you to do now is pause and go through add these. 171 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,260 I'm going to get Taylor our wonderful editor to go through and speed this up. 172 00:07:41,255 --> 00:07:42,845 I'm going to insert mine, 173 00:07:42,845 --> 00:07:47,775 see then [inaudible]. Here we are. 174 00:07:47,775 --> 00:07:51,695 When you're finished, I can click "Add" or click "OK" either way, 175 00:07:51,690 --> 00:07:53,460 it closes it down. 176 00:07:53,460 --> 00:07:55,100 Now we need to click "Ok" so it's finished. 177 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,670 Now, couple of things you might have clicked "OK" by accident, 178 00:07:57,665 --> 00:07:59,165 how do you get back in there? 179 00:07:59,165 --> 00:08:02,585 You just go back into the flat menu and say "New Color Swatch". 180 00:08:02,585 --> 00:08:04,495 If like me, you've spelled one wrong, 181 00:08:04,490 --> 00:08:05,840 I've left the green off it, 182 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,600 you can just double-click it, 183 00:08:07,595 --> 00:08:11,335 and it opens up and put my n in, click "OK". 184 00:08:11,335 --> 00:08:13,345 If you forgot to tick the box at the bottom, 185 00:08:13,340 --> 00:08:16,850 you can select on these guy and see this little cloud icon here, 186 00:08:16,850 --> 00:08:19,500 this will add it to the swatches over here. 187 00:08:19,495 --> 00:08:21,905 That's the end of this super-duper, 188 00:08:21,904 --> 00:08:23,634 long color nerd fest. 189 00:08:23,630 --> 00:08:26,030 I realized we're a bit into this course and we still 190 00:08:26,030 --> 00:08:28,980 just have a blank page, but it's okay. 191 00:08:28,975 --> 00:08:30,235 That's it for this video, 192 00:08:30,230 --> 00:08:32,650 we're going to move on to stealing colors from logos. 193 00:08:32,650 --> 00:08:34,610 Just in case you don't know what the corporate speak is, 194 00:08:34,610 --> 00:08:37,240 I'm going to show you a sneaky trick to go and do that. 195 00:08:37,235 --> 00:08:39,695 Let's go do that in the next video.