OUGD504 - Creative Suite Session 3

To create a tint swatch in InDesign, you select the colour you want to make a tint out of your swatches, then you click on Swatches > New Tint Swatch

Then you type in the value of the tint you want to make, and they appear in your swatches with the percentage next to them.

Here is what a series of tints from one colour look like:

To find a Pantone colour, you can go on Swatches > New Colour Swatch, and select from the Colour Modes which colour swatches you want to choose from

 When adding images to InDesign, we need to consider a few things in Photoshop:

• Work in CMYK
• Actual Size - size it's going to be when placed in InDesign. If you enlarge it, it will go pixelated, and if you shrink it the file size will be too big and can cause errors when going to print
• 300dpi
• Save as TIFF or PSD. PSD works with alpha channels which has transparency, whereas TIFF doesn't

When working in Illustrator, we have to consider:

• We don't have to create it a specific size as it is a vector, not resolution
• CMYK or SPOT
• Save as AI file, or copy and paste between files

In InDesign, we can see the Separation of colour to see what colours make up an image. This is useful when setting up for screenprinting