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Creating and applying gradient swatches - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training
Creating and applying gradient swatches
- [Instructor] Everyone loves using color gradients, but to be honest, InDesign is kind of clunky when it comes to making and applying them. In this document, from the exercise files folder, I have an object that I want to apply a gradient to on the last spread. So I'm going to click the last spread button down at the bottom left corner of the document window, and then I'm going to select this object back here. To apply a gradient, I'll open the gradients panel which I can find over in the dock on the right side of the screen. Or you can find it by going to the window menu and looking inside the color sub-menu. The easiest way to put a gradient inside that frame is to just click the little icon in the upper-left corner of the gradient panel. You can see that we now have that default white to black gradient, which is nice, but kind of boring. Let's spice it up a bit. You can choose whether you want this to be a linear gradient…
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