Chapter 5. Color My World
Color has just about taken over the design and publishing workflow. With the confluence of short-run digital color presses and high-end, affordable color printers in the office, black-and-white publications are quickly becoming an anachronism. It's even hard to find a section of a mainstream newspaper without a splash of color.Luckily, designers armed with Adobe InDesign are at the top of their game as far as color is concerned. All the colors of the rainbow (and probably more) are available at the click of an icon. Would you like your color served as CMYK, RGB, Lab, Pantone, Toyo, or TruMatch, sir? They're always on the menu. And palette. And palette menu.As you get deeper into InDesign, the choices multiply: process and spot colors? Okay, we get it. But then you also have mixed inks, tint colors, ink aliases, overprinting colors, transparent colors, not one but two color palettes, a Gradient tool that doesn't apply a gradient, oy!With such an array of choices, you're bound to run into a problem or two along the way. Or three.Follow along, and we'll see if we can clear up any of your chromatic conundrums.