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1. With crowe.indd open, use the Selection tool to make sure the shape at the
top of the page is selected.

2. At the bottom of the Tools panel, click the Swap Fill and Stroke button.

Swap Fill and
Stroke button

3. Open the Color panel (Window>Color>Color). Note:

4. Click the Fill swatch to bring it to the front (if it isn’t already). Remember, all panels
can be accessed in the
When you apply color from any of the Swatches panels (including the ones in the
Control panel), the Color panel shows a swatch of that color as a single slider. You can Window menu. Because
use this slider to easily apply a percentage of the selected swatch. workspace arrangement
is a matter of personal
5. Click the Options button in the top-right corner of the panel and choose preference, we won’t tell
CMYK from the Options menu. you where to place or
keep panels.
This option converts the single swatch slider to the four process-color sliders. You can
change any ink percentage to change the object’s fill color.

The swatch on top indicates
which attribute you can
change (in this case, Fill).
Click the back swatch
to review or adjust the
other attribute.
The black fill is a saved Click here to
(default) swatch; it appears in open the panel
the panel as a single slider. Options menu.
Note:
6. Click the M slider and drag until the field shows 40%. You can change the color
by typing a specific value
This color, 100% black with some percentage of another ink, is called a rich black or or by dragging the slider
super black. By itself, plain black ink often lacks density. Rich blacks are commonly
used to add density or “temperature” to flat black; adding magenta results in “warmer” below the color gradient.
blacks, and adding cyan results in “cooler” blacks.

Click and drag the
slider to change the
ink percentage.

7. Save the file and continue to the next stage of the project.

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