Operation Manual

Color, Fills, and Transparency 319
Applying solid colors
You can use the Color
tab, Swatches tab or a
dialog box to apply solid
colors to an object.
The tabs' swatch buttons offer a number of ways to apply solid colors to objects
of different kinds:
• You can apply solid colors to an object's fill or line. As you might
expect, QuickShapes and closed shapes (see Drawing and editing
shapes on p. 303) have both line and fill properties.
• Freehand or curved lines can take line colors but also a fill color
for creating closed shapes directly from the line.
• Selected artistic and Creative frame text objects can take a
background fill, line, and a text color. The text color is the fill of the
text, the background fill is the area immediately behind the text.
HTML frame text only takes a background fill and text color.
• Text frames (shown) and table cells can have a background fill
independent of the characters they contain.
To apply a solid color via the Color tab:
1. Select the object(s) or highlight a range of text.
2. Click the Color tab and select one of several color modes (RGB,
CMYK, HSL, or Grayscale) from the drop-down list.