WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.620 --> 00:00:09.720 Hi there. In this video we're going to look at adding 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.435 these 60 colors over here to InDesign. 00:00:12.435 --> 00:00:13.680 We're looking at color in general. 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:14.880 It's a little bit long video, 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:17.415 but it's the stuff you need to know if you're going to 00:00:17.415 --> 00:00:20.490 be getting into InDesign production. 00:00:20.490 --> 00:00:24.270 Let's go and add some premade colors. 00:00:24.270 --> 00:00:26.310 Before we go any further, 00:00:26.310 --> 00:00:29.130 let's just ensure your screen is looking like mine. 00:00:29.130 --> 00:00:31.335 At the top here, go to Essentials. 00:00:31.335 --> 00:00:34.140 If yours says something else, it may say Advanced or something else, 00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:37.380 click up in this random area at the top here and click "Essentials". 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:39.870 I'm pretty sure on a PC it's over here as well and 00:00:39.870 --> 00:00:42.825 even in early version it was a little way over here on the left, double-check. 00:00:42.825 --> 00:00:44.235 But find something that looks like that, 00:00:44.235 --> 00:00:47.610 make sure it's on Essentials and where it drops down, 00:00:47.610 --> 00:00:49.710 make sure you click on "Reset Essentials" as well. 00:00:49.710 --> 00:00:51.750 That means it just gets us back to square one. 00:00:51.750 --> 00:00:54.920 This is handy for when you doing something and you 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:58.560 accidentally drag this and it ends up in a weird spot down, 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.010 there is a white spot there, it is there and this book goes 00:01:01.010 --> 00:01:03.755 there and everything's about mixed up, and you get it lost. 00:01:03.755 --> 00:01:07.050 Come back to this video and go to "Essentials" and 00:01:07.050 --> 00:01:10.470 got to "Reset Essentials" and everything comes back to normal. 00:01:10.470 --> 00:01:13.280 What we'll also do for this course is see these double arrows here, 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.055 I prefer to have this group of tabs 00:01:16.055 --> 00:01:19.910 always out rather than like little clickable in and out boxes. 00:01:19.910 --> 00:01:21.290 If you've got a really small screen, 00:01:21.290 --> 00:01:24.335 you might have to keep them all pushed in. 00:01:24.335 --> 00:01:26.960 Let's ignore this little thing over here for the moment, 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:28.925 that's something I've added for us to write later on. 00:01:28.925 --> 00:01:32.450 What we're going to do when we are starting a new job is we've created a new page, 00:01:32.450 --> 00:01:36.665 but one of the first thing you should do now is create a new CC Library. 00:01:36.665 --> 00:01:41.570 You might do CC Libraries per client rather than per job. 00:01:41.570 --> 00:01:44.000 If you're looking at one company, you might just have one. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.950 You can see all my libraries here, I've got loads of them. 00:01:45.950 --> 00:01:48.800 All they are is a place to store things like you can see, 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:51.540 in this case, colors, fonts, images. 00:01:51.540 --> 00:01:54.470 The cool thing about it is that it's shared across all the Adobe products. 00:01:54.470 --> 00:01:56.060 You might be only using InDesign, 00:01:56.060 --> 00:01:57.530 but if you start using Photoshop, 00:01:57.530 --> 00:02:01.700 Illustrator, this library is in there as well so you can share these colors across. 00:02:01.700 --> 00:02:03.845 What we're going to do is CC Libraries. 00:02:03.845 --> 00:02:05.090 We can use this little drop-down. 00:02:05.090 --> 00:02:07.085 You'll just probably set to my library. 00:02:07.085 --> 00:02:08.750 I've got a couple of my libraries for some reason, 00:02:08.750 --> 00:02:10.190 but you've got one. 00:02:10.190 --> 00:02:12.320 I'm going to create a new library for this course. 00:02:12.320 --> 00:02:18.675 I'm going to call this one Great at Heart, you do the same. 00:02:18.675 --> 00:02:22.370 Let's click "Create" It's just a nice empty Library at the moment. 00:02:22.370 --> 00:02:24.410 But what it's going to do is when we add our colors, 00:02:24.410 --> 00:02:26.450 we'll add them to the library at the same time. 00:02:26.450 --> 00:02:28.730 When we bring in images and icons, 00:02:28.730 --> 00:02:30.145 they'll go in there as well. 00:02:30.145 --> 00:02:33.345 To add colors, we're going to add corporate colors. 00:02:33.345 --> 00:02:34.610 If you're just playing around, 00:02:34.610 --> 00:02:36.250 you want to mix up any color swatches, 00:02:36.250 --> 00:02:38.200 if I highlight this text here and just go, 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:40.580 what might happen is, in this case, 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:42.290 you can see here that nice little rainbow thing that 00:02:42.290 --> 00:02:44.090 was there a second ago is now this black and white. 00:02:44.090 --> 00:02:46.010 You can have switched it up here in 00:02:46.010 --> 00:02:49.430 this little flat menu back to RGB and you'll get that color thing back again. 00:02:49.430 --> 00:02:52.160 That happens quite a bit while you're working in InDesign. 00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:54.260 But if you've got no design at the moment, 00:02:54.260 --> 00:02:57.020 and you're randomly picking colors for the client or yourself, 00:02:57.020 --> 00:02:58.970 you can just use this little eyedropper done here and just 00:02:58.970 --> 00:03:01.505 randomly pick colors, and that might be great. 00:03:01.505 --> 00:03:04.710 But say we working for a client that has specific color needs, 00:03:04.710 --> 00:03:06.620 so we're going to have to put in their corporate colors. 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:08.245 Let's go and do that now. 00:03:08.245 --> 00:03:09.570 One of the things we'll look at is, 00:03:09.570 --> 00:03:11.685 Swatches are pre-made colors. 00:03:11.685 --> 00:03:14.375 Now InDesign is giving you a couple of pre-made ones, 00:03:14.375 --> 00:03:16.460 there is none, empty box. 00:03:16.460 --> 00:03:19.235 There's Registration, and reasonably complicated, 00:03:19.235 --> 00:03:21.515 but at our level here, just never ever use it. 00:03:21.515 --> 00:03:23.260 I never use Registration, 00:03:23.260 --> 00:03:25.590 we'll look at it a little bit more in our advanced class, 00:03:25.590 --> 00:03:27.825 we'll look at Registration and plates, 00:03:27.825 --> 00:03:29.610 but just ignore that one for the moment. 00:03:29.610 --> 00:03:32.685 What you want to do is use black, not Registration. 00:03:32.685 --> 00:03:34.230 Black, and then there's white, 00:03:34.230 --> 00:03:37.445 they call it paper because you'd imagine if you printing, 00:03:37.445 --> 00:03:40.880 if I printed this came and I was expecting this to be white, 00:03:40.880 --> 00:03:42.330 but I put blue paper in my printer, 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. 00:03:45.410 --> 00:03:48.605 That's why they're clever with the word paper there and not white, 00:03:48.605 --> 00:03:50.400 but it means white. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.970 Then they went and mixed in some really awful colors. 00:03:52.970 --> 00:03:54.965 These are there by default, you can't delete them. 00:03:54.965 --> 00:03:58.220 You can select them all and say goodbye with little trashcan, 00:03:58.220 --> 00:03:59.735 we'll leave them there for the moment. 00:03:59.735 --> 00:04:02.420 What we want to do is mix our own colors. 00:04:02.420 --> 00:04:06.100 Now, you're going to have to find out what your corporate colors are. 00:04:06.100 --> 00:04:10.655 You might be working in a company and they've got a corporate manual, 00:04:10.655 --> 00:04:12.500 and it lists out their colors. 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:14.900 You might have to ask the marketing department what they are, 00:04:14.900 --> 00:04:17.585 or the designer that was working there or working with you. 00:04:17.585 --> 00:04:20.870 You're going to have to figure out what these colors are. 00:04:20.870 --> 00:04:23.590 Now to create a swatch, go into this little flat out menu here, 00:04:23.590 --> 00:04:26.440 in the swatches panel, and there's one that top hits his new color swatch. 00:04:26.440 --> 00:04:28.040 If it doesn't have anything, 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.830 sometimes I've being on my type two and I've got take, 00:04:30.830 --> 00:04:32.540 selected and it's freaking out a little bit. 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:36.485 What I can do is just go back to my arrow and I'll click that from the background. 00:04:36.485 --> 00:04:39.145 Now, I can go through and get a new color swatch. 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. 00:04:43.585 --> 00:04:46.290 Let's click on this top one here says, "Name with Color Value. " 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, 00:04:50.630 --> 00:04:52.130 they're actual code for them. 00:04:52.130 --> 00:04:54.605 Especially when you're dealing with a client, say like me, 00:04:54.605 --> 00:04:57.100 I've worked for hundreds of companies so if I'm typing great, 00:04:57.100 --> 00:04:58.880 it could be great from any company. 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:02.320 I'm going to untick this and I'm looking for the Great at Heart. 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:04.850 I'm just putting a little acronym in there. 00:05:04.850 --> 00:05:07.040 If you're working with Disney put in Disney Great. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.010 I'm working with Great at Heart, Red. 00:05:10.010 --> 00:05:12.665 What we're going to do is the color mode. 00:05:12.665 --> 00:05:15.410 Now we're going to be using RGB in this class. 00:05:15.410 --> 00:05:19.735 You might be looking at corporate manual and you see CMYK, 00:05:19.735 --> 00:05:21.695 the times where we use each of them, 00:05:21.695 --> 00:05:23.915 RGB is probably the most common, 00:05:23.915 --> 00:05:26.120 especially if you're going to be designing something that it's 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.010 going to be viewed on a screen. 00:05:28.010 --> 00:05:29.435 RGB is red, green, blue, 00:05:29.435 --> 00:05:32.000 and that's what your screen uses to display colors, 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.465 CMYK is what your printer uses to display colors. 00:05:35.465 --> 00:05:37.940 You'll notice it's a lot less because if you've ever printed 00:05:37.940 --> 00:05:40.340 something from your laptop and it looks awesome, 00:05:40.340 --> 00:05:42.800 and then it prints out in the printer just a little bit washed out, 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:45.030 it's because of CMYK. 00:05:45.030 --> 00:05:48.150 RGB luckily has a bigger a color field. 00:05:48.150 --> 00:05:49.700 It also has light coming out of it, 00:05:49.700 --> 00:05:52.490 luminance because your laptop screen is all 00:05:52.490 --> 00:05:56.165 brighten and it got light in it so it can achieve those colors like that. 00:05:56.165 --> 00:05:59.735 Like toxic green or like a Madonna pink RGB. 00:05:59.735 --> 00:06:02.240 When you'd use CMYK is when you go into 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.360 a commercial printer or an offset printer, they call it, 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.120 and that depends on what you working if 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.640 you're doing stuff and it's going to be printed in the office, 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:13.235 same to RGB, office printers love RGB, 00:06:13.235 --> 00:06:16.010 even if they're lazy color printers, 00:06:16.010 --> 00:06:17.240 they'll like RGB more. 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:19.820 Certainly if you're getting like 10,000 printed 00:06:19.820 --> 00:06:22.970 at a large printing house, they'll expect CMYK. 00:06:22.970 --> 00:06:25.160 They look very similar in terms of their colors, 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:26.630 but their codes are slightly different. 00:06:26.630 --> 00:06:30.930 We're going to use RGB and here are the RGB colors that I've got. 00:06:30.930 --> 00:06:32.710 We're going to list all these out. 00:06:32.710 --> 00:06:38.810 I'm going to put in 255 for the first and 99 and then 88. 00:06:38.810 --> 00:06:42.020 You see it's still a pink, but if I click out here, 00:06:42.020 --> 00:06:44.615 one of the other ones, it changes to my swatch. 00:06:44.615 --> 00:06:47.930 What I want to do is I'm going to add it to my library at the same time, 00:06:47.930 --> 00:06:51.095 Great at Heart you might have a different one, lots of different ones. 00:06:51.095 --> 00:06:53.410 I'm going to add to My Great at Heart at the same time. 00:06:53.410 --> 00:06:55.430 If you're confused by libraries and you just hate them, 00:06:55.430 --> 00:06:57.590 you don't want to use them, you can untick this. 00:06:57.590 --> 00:06:59.495 Just click "Add" rather than "OK". 00:06:59.495 --> 00:07:03.560 Why? Just means that keeps us open so I can add more colors. 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:07.075 This one's going to be Green at Hearts and this one's going to be the yellow. 00:07:07.075 --> 00:07:10.800 Add another one, 255, I'm tabbing down. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.900 We'll click on the next box, 145. 00:07:13.970 --> 00:07:18.015 Actually don't click anything because it's pink not yellow. 00:07:18.015 --> 00:07:20.805 I think I left the 2 on the front of this one. 00:07:20.805 --> 00:07:25.215 Ignore the notes over here it should be 255, 255, 145. 00:07:25.215 --> 00:07:27.480 I'm going to click "Add". 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.720 You can see there it appears in my libraries and also 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.720 appears down here my swatches and both places. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:37.440 What I want you to do now is pause and go through add these. 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:41.255 I'm going to get Taylor our wonderful editor to go through and speed this up. 00:07:41.255 --> 00:07:42.845 I'm going to insert mine, 00:07:42.845 --> 00:07:47.775 see then [inaudible]. Here we are. 00:07:47.775 --> 00:07:51.690 When you're finished, I can click "Add" or click "OK" either way, 00:07:51.690 --> 00:07:53.460 it closes it down. 00:07:53.460 --> 00:07:55.100 Now we need to click "Ok" so it's finished. 00:07:55.100 --> 00:07:57.665 Now, couple of things you might have clicked "OK" by accident, 00:07:57.665 --> 00:07:59.165 how do you get back in there? 00:07:59.165 --> 00:08:02.585 You just go back into the flat menu and say "New Color Swatch". 00:08:02.585 --> 00:08:04.490 If like me, you've spelled one wrong, 00:08:04.490 --> 00:08:05.840 I've left the green off it, 00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:07.595 you can just double-click it, 00:08:07.595 --> 00:08:11.335 and it opens up and put my n in, click "OK". 00:08:11.335 --> 00:08:13.340 If you forgot to tick the box at the bottom, 00:08:13.340 --> 00:08:16.850 you can select on these guy and see this little cloud icon here, 00:08:16.850 --> 00:08:19.495 this will add it to the swatches over here. 00:08:19.495 --> 00:08:21.904 That's the end of this super-duper, 00:08:21.904 --> 00:08:23.630 long color nerd fest. 00:08:23.630 --> 00:08:26.030 I realized we're a bit into this course and we still 00:08:26.030 --> 00:08:28.975 just have a blank page, but it's okay. 00:08:28.975 --> 00:08:30.230 That's it for this video, 00:08:30.230 --> 00:08:32.650 we're going to move on to stealing colors from logos. 00:08:32.650 --> 00:08:34.610 Just in case you don't know what the corporate speak is, 00:08:34.610 --> 00:08:37.235 I'm going to show you a sneaky trick to go and do that. 00:08:37.235 --> 00:08:39.690 Let's go do that in the next video.