Adobe InDesign for Beginners
Course 4: Objects and Colors: Swatches 1
By Jamie Sanchez Hearn , Graphic Designer and Lecturer
Joined February 2020
Joined February 2020
About the video: Swatches 1
Overview
“I will explain how working with swatches can be a great way to check your design and save time when creating. We will create a palette to work with, changing the color values to a given swatch, add a swatch, delete a swatch, and create a color group.”
In this video lesson Jamie Sanchez Hearn addresses the topic: Swatches 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Objects and Colors. See how to transform objects and apply color to your design..
Partial transcription of the video
“Next, I will explain how swatches can be a great way to both edit our design and save time as we're creating. we will look at how we can add, edit and delete a new swatch. as well as creating a color group. Let's begin our lesson. Swatches are samples of color. When we save a swatch, we are saving the details about a specific color. Then we can easily apply it thereafter. This is very similar to styles. where we set attributes for InDesign to save and refer to. The principle is the same here with swatches. we can create and label colors, gradients, and tints and use them within our document...”
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Course summary for: Course 4: Objects and Colors
Jamie Sanchez Hearn
By Jamie Sanchez Hearn
Jamie Sanchez Hearn is an English graphic designer and lecturer with over ten years of experience in the field. He has worked for creative agencies such as Pentagram, Johnson Banks, Paper Dog, and Landor Associates.
In parallel to working with agencies, he has been teaching at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London for over eight years. Jamie has lectured on a variety of Saint Martin’s undergraduate courses including BA Graphic Communication Design and BA Fashion Journalism. He teaches short courses in Graphic Design for Beginners, Typography and InDesign. Jamie is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
His specialty and most passionate work lie in creating and teaching in the disciplines of Typography, Branding, and Editorial Design. He enjoys sharing the curiosity for how Art and Design can collectively improve our everyday lives.
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