Operation Manual

228 Colour, Fills, and Transparency
• The Schemes tab shows the various available schemes, each with a
different set of five colours in the five "jars." Whichever named colour
scheme you select, that scheme's first colour (as shown in its sample)
will appear in regions defined as Scheme Colour 1, its second colour
will map to Scheme Colour 2, and so on throughout the publication.
To select a colour scheme:
1. Click the Schemes tab. The currently assigned scheme is highlighted
in the list.
2. Click a different colour scheme sample. Objects in the publication that
have been assigned one of the five colour scheme numbers are
updated with the corresponding colour from the new scheme.
You can repeat this selection process indefinitely. When you save a publication,
its current colour scheme is saved along with the document.
Applying scheme colours to objects
When you create publications from pre-defined design templates (see p. 20), you
can choose the starting colour scheme that you want to adopt; you can always
change it later from the Schemes tab. This flexibility creates endless possibilities
for the look and feel of your publication! However, if you then create new
elements in your schemed publication, or start a publication from scratch, how
can you extend the current colour scheme to the new objects? Although you'll
need to spend some time working out which colour combinations look best, the
mechanics of the process are simple. Recalling the paint-by-numbers example
above, all you need to do is assign one of the five current scheme colour
numbers to an object's line and/or fill.
To assign a scheme colour to an object:
1. Select the object and choose a Fill, Line, or Text
button at the top of the Swatches tab depending on the desired effect.
2. From the bottom of the Swatches tab, click on the scheme colour that
you want to apply to the fill, line, or text (or you can drag the colour
instead).