We’re now ready to start extracting those colours.īack in Illustrator display the Swatches panel. The most important thing comes next: Enable the Output to Swatches option. and choose how many colours you’d like to create by setting the Max Colors option. Just a few minor changes in the Adjustments section of the dialog. Yay! We’re not going to do too much in this dialog. We could just click this button, however, doing so means that we have no idea of the settings that are being used, so we’re taking a different approach.įrom the drop down menu next to the Live Trace button, choose Tracing Options… This will allow us to determine exactly how many colours we want to extract to swatches. As soon as you do that you should spot the Live Trace button in the Control panel at the top. In Illustrator select the image with the Selection tool. This is something you couldn’t do before CS4. The cool thing is that you can now choose in which application you’d like to Edit a placed file. Illustrator? Hang-on this is a photo, shouldn’t we be opening this in Photoshop? Nope □ Illustrator has a very cool feature called Live Trace, and that’s what we’ll be using in this case to extract our swatches from the image. Next either right-click the image (and choose the contextual menus) or choose Edit > Edit With > Adobe Illustrator CS4. So let’s start by selecting the image that is to be the source of your swatches with the Selection tool. I’m assuming you’ve already placed the image in InDesign. ![]() Ok, so let’s have a look at how this works. ![]() Here’s one of the scenario’s we used: So you’re working on a layout in InDesign, and although you know you can use the Eyedropper tool to pick up colour from a placed image for use in InDesign, you’ve got the sudden urge to build a series of colour swatches based on the colours found in one of the images used in the layout. ![]() Updated: : Added Video Tutorial at end of transcript During our InDesign Trivia night at the Perth InDesign User Group in December, we had some fun with colours in InDesign.
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