From the course: InDesign Secrets
157 Sharing swatches (PS/IL/ID and ID to ID) - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
157 Sharing swatches (PS/IL/ID and ID to ID)
- When you're creating a series of pieces for the particular project or client it's important to maintain color consistency. So if you were looking at a presentation done for Roux Academy that has a number of RGB colors and one errant CMYK color. If I want to do another piece using the same colors, how do I get these exact colors over to the other file without having to recreate them from scratch? Well, an easy way with InDesign is simply to copy and paste. Reason number 8 is colored this lavender color, so I could select this and then copy it and then go to another document and paste it. And that brings the color over. Another way to move colors from one InDesign document to another is to load the colors. So I'm going to undo, what I just did, and then in the Swatches Panel Menu I'm going to choose "Load Swatches". And then I'll navigate on my hard drive to where the source document is located and select that InDesign file. When I click "Open", then all the colors are added at once to this document. And that's fine if that's what you wanna do, but sometimes you just wanna pull a few colors from one InDesign document to the next. I'm going to undo that, so the compromise between copying and pasting and bringing everything over, is to create what's called a Swatch Exchange Sets. What you do is in the source documents, select the colors that you want to copy over into a new document. So in my case, I'm going to select these three colors, and then I'm holding down the shift key to select them all. Then I'm going to hold down the command key, or the control key on a PC, to also select deep yellow. I don't want to get the gray. Now with these four colors selected, I'll go to Swatches Panel Menu and choose "Save Swatches". It saves them as an .ase, for Adobe Swatch Exchange file. I'll just call it "roux colors - new", and save it on my desktop. So if I were working in a workgroup, I could save this file on the server, for example, and then everybody who's working on the Roux Academy project, could load the same colors and we could keep consistent that way. Now click save here, (laughing) I accidentally colored that, say "None", ok, let's go to "Untitled" and this time we're going to load the Roux colors. So, I'll go to the Swatches Panel Menu and choose "Load Swatches" again but instead of choosing the InDesign file, I'll choose the .ase file, choose "Open", and then just the colors that I wanted to appear there, appear there. ASE also works with Photoshop and Illustrator. Let me jump over to Illustrator, for example. Here I have a document open, that I want to work on for Roux, so I'll go to the Swatches Panel Menu in Illustrator. Go down to "Open Swatch Library", doesn't say "Load Swatches", choose "Other Library" at the very bottom, and then navigate to where I have my .ase file. Click "Open" and they are added, in a new panel, so you can see I had done this for a different project earlier. In Photoshop, it's almost the same thing. You go to the swatches menu, go down to "Load Swatches", choose the .ase file and open it up. They get added to the end of the list of your existing swatches, and if you hover over them, and pause for a second, you'll see even the names came through as well. The next time you want to make sure that all the colors are consistent between the different projects that you are creating for a particular client, try saving your colors out as an ASE Swatch Set. It's faster and easier than copying and pasting.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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