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Creating and applying gradient swatches - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2024 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. Let's start by opening the Gradient panel. It's over here in the Dock. Or you can find it in the Window menu inside the Color sub-menu. Now, I have a frame on the last spread of this document and we can jump there by clicking the last spread button down here in the lower left corner of the document window. Now, I'll click this empty frame. The easiest way to put a gradient in this frame is to just click the little gradient icon here in the panel. Now, you can see we have the default white to black gradient applied to this object, which is fine, but kind of boring. Let's spice it up a bit. You can choose whether you want this to be a linear gradient or a radial gradient right here in this pop-up menu. That's cool, kind of a lips inside the frame. But in this case, let's set this back…
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