Color Posts

Merging Separations into Composite CMYK plus Spot

July 3 2009 • 12:48 AM

Need to recombine pages that have been separated into individual color channels? Photoshop can help with this arcane but helpful trick!

Honey, I Blew Up The Color Panel

June 30 2009 • 6:52 AM

Come on a fantastic voyage to see pixels as big as houses. Enter dark places, where InDesign gurus fear to tread. Cooler than Kuler? Kinda.

InDesign Eye Candy, part 5: Blending a la Mode

June 16 2009 • 8:42 PM

What’s black and white or red all over? Your document in a blender (mode).

InDesign Eye Candy, part 2: Shine On

May 20 2009 • 7:20 PM

Here’s how to polish up your graphics and make ‘em shine.

Split Text Color from Black to White in the Middle of a Frame

May 20 2009 • 5:37 AM

Need some text to suddenly change color when its over a dark background? This technique should do the trick.

Ensuring Objects Bleed off the Page Properly

April 16 2009 • 8:06 AM

Are all the questions on the Adobe InDesign ACE practice test fair? Let’s look at one confusing one, involving Bleed/Trim Hazard.

FM Screens, Hexachrome, and Other Fun Printing Stuff

March 31 2009 • 3:37 PM

If you’re a printer, or you care about getting the most from a print job, you should check out FM and Hexachrome technologies.

Highlighting an Entire Paragraph with Color

March 17 2009 • 9:13 AM

With the right combination of paragraph rules and an underline, you can create a style that will highlight an entire paragraph.

Clear the Color in a Character Style Back to Ignore

March 4 2009 • 2:19 PM

What do you do when you want to remove the color from a character style definition? It’s easy to do, once you know the trick.

Beware Overprinting White

February 17 2009 • 9:05 AM

In which we discover yet another way in which InDesign is attempting to build your character (or slowly drive you insane).