In this InDesign how-to video, Khara Plicanic shows how easy it is to pull colors from an image in InDesign. She walks through right-clicking to have InDesign save color groups as a theme, then selects the sampled color indicators and drags to change them up. Lastly, Khara applies a color mood to the set and saves the theme to a Creative Cloud library for quick re-use.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on May 27, 2025
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