: Color picker in InDesign Is there a way to change the color picker to emulate illustrator or photoshop's color picker? I can never figure out how to get to the color I want in InDesign. I

@Murray664

InDesign's color picker is not easy to select colors along a light-to-dark scale. Possibly because this is a separate functionality in the 'color' panel found in window > color > color. I find that so frustrating that I just use Adobe Kuler for everything and bypass the color picker entirely.

Kuler is an extension enabled in window > extensions > Kuler.

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@Nimeshi706

Illustrator and Photoshop allow for color picker selection using Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (as well as Hex).



Illustrator CS6 color picker

Indesign does not allow for Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (or hex) specification in the color picker. But Indesign does offer LAB* color selection where Photoshop and Illustrator do not.



Indesign CC color picker

Don't ask me why things are this way. I don't know. Just a testament to "Adobe's Unified UI" I guess.

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@Candy945

Are you talking about picking colours with the eye dropper? If you want to choose a colour from one shape to copy to another, you have to deselect everything and use the eye dropper to select the colour you want. Then with the eye dropper "full" click on the object you want to copy the fill and or stroke to, For both fill and stroke just click and it will copy; for just fill hold shift and click.

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@Megan533

I'm not entirely sure what your looking for. Indesign's colour palette is almost identical to Illustrator's .

With both you can double click on the colour swatch to bring up a more detailed dialog (CS5 below).



If you're referring to the eyedropper values. When dealing with linked files Indesign uses a proxy image. As far as I can tell that image varies depending on your zoom level/quality settings. That's while you'll get the "eyedropper values are approximate" dialog whenever you click on a linked image.

If you're using elements that are created in Indesign proper (boxes and other shapes) then the eyedropper behaves just as you'd expect, selecting the colour of the item you've clicked on.

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