Color Posts

There is one location in InDesign CS5.5 or later that shows you the hexadecimal values for a color… can you guess what it is?

InDesign sometimes lies to you about how colors appear on your page. This article will help you reveal reality.

When it comes to applying transparency to live text, Quark gives you finer control than InDesign. But there ways of working around this limitation. You just have to think outside the box, er, frame. Whatever. Read the post.

Do all of your pages look the same in the pages panel? Try organizing them with color.

Have you ever tried to apply effects to a text frame, but the whole Effects panel was grayed out? Here’s why.

Water, water everywhere. Three-quarters of the planet is covered with it. Sixty percent of you is water. And with the help of a blending mode, you can add a drop or two of H2O to your designs.

You view your PDF on screen and — gasp! — tiny white lines! Disaster or not?

A few freebies for InDesign users publishing to the iPad

InDesign doesn’t allow speccing a color with hex or html color codes… until now!

A color management mystery (with a solution!)