Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
8.
In the Swatches panel, select the Fill box ( ). Scroll down the list of swatches to
find the Light Green swatch and select it. Click the Tint menu at the top of the pan-
el and drag the slider to 76%.
The white background of the graphics frame is now a 76% tint of the green color,
but the gray areas of the graphic remain unchanged.
9.
Using the Selection tool ( ), move the pointer within the content grabber at the
center of the frame. When the hand pointer ( ) appears, click to select the graph-
ic within the frame, and then select Light Green in the Swatches panel. Light
Green replaces gray in the image, leaving the Light Green 76% areas as they were.
InDesign lets you apply color to grayscale or bitmap images saved in PSD, TIFF,
BMP, or JPEG format. When you select the graphic within a graphics frame and
then apply a fill color, the color is applied to the gray portions of the image rather
than to the background of the frame, as it was in step 8, when the frame was selec-
ted.
10.
In the Layers panel, click the empty box to the left of the Background layer name
to lock the layer. Leave the Background layer visible so that you can see the results
of the transparent objects you will be placing above this layer.
