From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors
- [Instructor] In addition to the fonts that we've chosen, we are going to need colors, of course to work with in our layout. It will be a very dry thing indeed without any colors. Not impossible, but just dry. So, we have a couple of different ways of choosing them. Now, I have access to creative cloud libraries. And what I'm going to do is just open up that window. So, Window, CC libraries. If you don't have access to that, don't worry, I'm going to give you an alternative suggestion in a moment. I'm then going to place an image from the exercise files into this layout. And again, you could use any image of your own if you don't have access to that. So, command D, control D on Windows And then I'm going to bring in the file foodDnaHelix.psd. I have show import options turned on and I'm going to hit open. So, it gives me the image import options. I can see this DNA helix here. I can find out some things about it.…
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Project overview1m 5s
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Document setup5m 28s
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Setting margins5m 15s
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Adding guides2m 49s
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Challenge: Layout guides2m 31s
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Solution: Layout guides5m 27s
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Choosing and pairing fonts5m 8s
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Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors4m 46s
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Splitting images for the covers3m 42s
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Creating tints for the cover flaps5m 40s
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Adding image content5m 23s
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Importing and organizing text5m 31s
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Styling the title block7m 30s
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Styling the cover quote6m 4s
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Optical margin alignment3m 38s
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Setting the back cover text6m 53s
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Adding character style overrides3m 45s
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Challenge: Set flap texts54s
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Solution: Set flap texts4m 32s
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Creating the spine content4m 27s
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Adding the publisher's assets5m 25s
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Exporting assets3m 14s
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Creating a print finish5m 54s
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