Operation Manual

Colour, Fills, and Transparency 153
Applying scheme colours to objects
When you create publications from pre-defined design templates (see
p. 15), 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 current scheme
colour numbers to an object's line and/or fill.
To assign a scheme colour to an object:
1. On the Swatches tab, from the Publications Palette flyout,
select Scheme Colours.
The palette displays only scheme colours.