Lesson 9

Changing colours & fiddly image edits

In this lesson you’ll look at a postcard with several, more complex elements. You’ll learn how to recognise empty frames, and frames with colours applied in different ways. You’ll learn how to do some more fiddly editing both to text, and to an image. You’ll also learn how to create a brand’s colour from its brand guidelines and apply it within InDesign.

New subjects covered

  • Recognising an empty frame

  • Fill colour

  • Stroke colour

  • “None” colour

  • Editing text with the Story Editor

  • Fine tuning image crops

  • Deselecting

  • Referencing brand guidelines

  • Creating a new swatch

  • Apply a swatch to text

New commands

  • Edit> Edit in Story Editor

  • Swatches Panel> New Colour Swatch

New jargon learnt

  • Fill

  • Stroke

  • Swatch

  • CMYK

  • RGB

  • Web colour