From the course: InDesign 2022 Essential Training
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Stroking and filling frames and paths - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2022 Essential Training
Stroking and filling frames and paths
- [Instructor] I have my magazine file open from the exercise files folder, and let's apply some color to this text frame on the left page. InDesign, just like Illustrator lets you apply a fill or a stroke color to any object on your page, even text. So let's apply a fill and a stroke to this frame. To do that, I want to pay attention to these little widgets, the little options right in the middle of the Control panel. You'll also see these same options in the Properties panel, if you use that. The top one is the fill color and the bottom one is the stroke color and right now, they're both set to None. That's what that red diagonal line means. So first let's go ahead and fill this with a color. I'll click on the popup menu to the right, and you can see a number of swatch colors that are listed here. You might be tempted to choose Registration, but don't do it. That's actually kind of dangerous. This is just for…
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