- Drag from Palette to Palette
- Create Your Gradients with Drag-and-Drop
- Create a Default Set of Colors
- Steal Colors from Another Document
- Not Just for Text Style SheetsBut Color Style Sheets Too
- Eyedropper Trick #2
- Save Time by Dragging and Dropping Color
- Delete Multiple Swatches
- If You Didnt Use It, Lose It
- Merge Swatches
- Change the Order of Your Swatches
- Save Tints as Swatches
- Avoid Tint Weirdness
- Tint Weirdness #2
- Name Color Swatches After Their Values
- How to Name Swatches (And Why You Should)
- Load the Pantone Colors
- Import Just a Few, Or All, of the Pantone Colors
- Speed Through the Swatches Palette
- The Smart Way to Edit Swatches
- Speed Through the Color Ramp
- Get Solid Black, Or Solid White, in One Click
- Get Your Colors in Gamut with One Click
- Create Perfect Shades
- Get the Color Palette into Tint Mode
- Help with Creating Colors
- One Click to No Fill or Stroke
- Swap the Fill and Stroke
- Return to the Default Black Stroke, No Fill
- Drag-and-Drop Colors from the Toolbox
- Get Live Gradient Previews
- Reapply the Last-Used Gradient
- Color Management when Importing Photos
- Gradient Palette Shortcut
- Make Sure All the Colors in Your Book Match
- Blue and Yellow Make Green
- Stop Playing Hit-or-Miss
Avoid Tint Weirdness
InDesign handles tints differently than you might think, and that’s why we included this tip to keep you from experiencing tint “weirdness.” The Tint control in the Swatches palette is really a “master” Tint slider because it applies the tint percentage to every swatch you click on. So if you click on one swatch, and lower the tint of that swatch to 62%, then you click on another swatch, that swatch also becomes a 62% tint. If you raise it back to 100%, you also just raised the previous swatch (the one you originally set to 62%) back to 100%. In fact, if you save a 52% tint as a swatch, and if you even as much as click on that swatch, it moves the master Tint slider to 52% for all your swatches. Yes, it’s weird, but we thought you should know.