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earlier on, we came up with three color schemesusing kuler. we have applied one of them. i would now like to experiment with applyingthe other two. so i am going to go to my swatches panel, and the last five swatches on the swatchespanel are from the color theme that we created in kuler, and then the five above that, youmay remember, i uploaded an image to kuler, and created this very warm color palette basedupon those. and then the blues and the grays are an analogous color scheme, also createdwith the aid of kuler. i was quite excited about the brown and orange color scheme, whichwas derived from a photograph of the interior of the cafe. i would now like to give thatone a try. you may find it easier to change the view of your swatches panel in indesign.if you have a large swatch, that makes it
a little bit easier to figure out what you'reworking with. i wish that we had color groups in indesign, the same way as we do in illustrator.it would make it little bit easier to segregate these colors, rather than having them alllumped together like this. but this is what we have to work with, so what i am going todo is i am going to delete the colors that we are using, and then selectively replacethem with these other colors. so starting out with this green, which forms the backgroundcolor, i am just going to drag that to the trash, and choose a color to replace it with.and that looks shockingly orange in this context, in a way that i hadn't really anticipated,so this is not really working out quite the way i had hoped it might, but i am going tocontinue anyway and let's see where we end
up. i am going to continue with deleting thestarting colors, and replacing them with colors from this group of five right here. now, doi like that result? no, i don't. it's not what i expected. i could tweak it somewhat;maybe we can put this text in white, maybe we can do the same with this text down here.so i am selecting the text frame, choosing my formatting affects text icon, and thenmaking that white. it's not really working for me, and i doubt it's working for you either.so, at that point, i am going to do a rethink, and now let's try the third of our color schemes:the analogous blue and gray colors. i will use the same approach. doing it this way makessure that all instances of one color are immediately replaced with another color, but sometimesyou might just want to select the items, and
click on the color. that is working a littlebit better, i think. so if i want an alternative, i think this is a viable one, though i donot like it as much as my original. but at least it gives us a point of comparison. andi think i am just going to standardize upon this one soft blue here, rather than thislighter version of it. so let's delete that one, and then replace it with that one. soultimately here, we are just using the two colors: the blue, and the gray. the pointhere is that you've got to try these things; sometimes they don't work out exactly as youhad planned. colors look very different, when applied to large areas, than you might anticipatewhen you see just a small swatch. these things have to be tried. at least we can say we'veexperimented with alternative versions. i
think, ultimately, i'm to go back to my originalcolor scheme, but i can do so, now, confident that i've explored other options.