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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel

008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel

Anne-Marie: These Swatches panel in InDesign is the source from whence all good things come. It's probably the panel that I use most often in InDesign and I want to show you some cool little tips and tricks that you can do with this panel to make it easier for you to work in your various InDesign files. I think the number one thing that especially new user should know is never use the registration color. We don't know why Adobe persists and leaving it in the Swatches panel. I don't think that I've ever used if the registration color once and the problem is that if you do use the registration color, it's almost impossible to distinguish from black. If I selected this text and I color it registration, can you tell me what's black and was registration? But if we send this to print and they do a color separation, then this text comes out at 100% of the four process colors which would make for some very strange looking text. The registration color is only supposed to be used for things…

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