How To Add Color To Indesign Background

Adding Colour Shapes and Backgrounds InDesign

This tutorial walks through how to add colour backgrounds and shapes to an InDesign poster.

Add a Colour Background

In one case your poster is created, you may want to first by creating a colored shape for your background.

Select the Rectangle tool from the tool panel.

The Rectangle tool's icon is a shaded rectangle and is the sixth from the peak on the left.

Selecting the rectangle tool

Click-and drag to create a shape approximately the size of your poster.

Yous tin can brand it bigger than your poster to make sure yous cover the whole matter, and the excess will be cropped off when you export your affiche.

Drawing rectangle over poster

Your rectangle will default to non having any fill colour.

Select the Swatches console from the buttons to the right of your poster layout to add together color.

NOTE: If yous do not encounter the push for swatches, refer to Starting a New InDesign Poster Project for gear up instructions.

Select the basic version of the color you desire your groundwork to be.

Swatches window

Nosotros chose yellow because the topic of our poster is THON.

Double-click the fill selection indicator at the lesser of the tools panel to accommodate the shade and tone.

Fill color picker

The Color Picker window will open.

Color picker window rgb

For a more familiar colour space option, click the radio push next to the "50:" towards the bottom of the window.

Lab color space view

Elevate the slider and cross-hairs to go the color you lot desire.

To make a light yellowish, we dragged the slider up and dragged the cross-hairs towards the heart of the Colour Infinite.

Adjust color

Hit the OK button in the Color Picker window to confirm the new color.

New color

Save your piece of work by selecting Save in the file menu (ctrl/cmd + s on the keyboard).

save indesign file

Add together Color Shapes

The aforementioned tool and process is used for creating additional color elements for your poster.

Select the Rectangle tool if information technology'due south not already selected.
Click-and-elevate to make the shape you want.

Click and drag to draw a shape

For our poster, we wanted to create a white background for where our text will become in the first column, and used the guides to determine the shape.