InDesign How-to Video: Make Color Themes from an Image
In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Erica Gamet demonstrates how to use InDesign’s Color Theme tool. She shows how to create a palette of colors by sampling an image, then puts that color theme into the Swatches panel—and also into a CC Library.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on January 2, 2020
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