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Tip of the Week: The Fastest Way to Reset a Tint to 100%

This InDesign tip on the fastest way to reset a tint to 100% was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on May 18, 2017.

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Sometimes the simplest solutions are right at your fingertips but you might not realize they’re there. Case in point: when a selected object’s fill or stroke set to a tint of a swatch color, and you want to reset it to 100%, how do you do it?

InDesign tip reset swatch

Do you use the Tint slider in the Swatches panel or the Control panel? Don’t bother. All you have to do is click on the swatch.

Boom. The fill or stroke is instantly reset to 100% of the swatch color.

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French.
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