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For the last movie in this chapter we're going to look at another online application that blends in with InDesign and it's called Kuler. To get to the Window Menu we choose Extension and then choose Kuler. It's not C-o-o-l-e-r, it's K-u-l-e-r. Now, we're online at the moment with these and you can choose color schemes that people have uploaded to the site, and you can search them, see the ones that you like and you can search from the Newest Styles, the Most Popular Styles, it takes a few seconds because it's going out to the Web to take a look at them. The Highest Rated ones, like that, you can go down, select them, and if you find a style you like you can add it to your computer. It gives you a little bit of information about who created it, when they created it, and the number of star ratings it has got. But you can also create your own and you can create it using some of the rules that they have up here, and as I move these about you can see that the suggested colors are done here. We can choose from a Monochromatic Mode here; we just have one color, but as we change the wheel around here we can make it tighter, move around like that to get a nice color scheme. Then we can choose a Triad Scheme; that's three colors together, and again, you just move these around. We have the major color like this, it's the base color, and the rest get adjusted accordingly. Complementary colors, like that, again, you just move these, and you can also move the sliders as well if you want to do it that way, it moves the wheel. Coming down, Compound colors, a little more complex here, just drag them out and again, you can just move these sliders. Notice it gives you the RGB values and the Hex values for these. The Hex you would use for Web sites and when we bring them in here they are RGB values, but we'll look at how we deal with that if we want to go to CMYK. Shades again, shades of the same color, and then we can go Custom where you can just drag them out yourself and create new wheels. Let me just go to Browse a little and I'll choose some of the ones that have already been created. Now if I want to add it to my Swatches Palette I just hit Add like that. Come over to my Swatches and there they've all been added. I deleted all the other ones except for the permanent ones, so these are the ones that brought in. As you can see they're RGB colors, but if you're working in a CMYK world you just select them all like this, pull down the menu and choose Swatch Options here Ð I nearly forgot what that was there Ð and change it up here from RGB to CMYK like that, click on OK and there we've just changed everything. I think this is just a wonderful addition to InDesign and you can go out the Kuler Web site and create and submit your own color schemes if you'd like to do that, but you're really benefiting from a great tool here, having it built into InDesign. In the tab beside it you can see the connections that we were at in the previous movie and this is something that's really probably going to be expanded quite a lot as InDesign develops into the next versions; you're going to have more and more of these third-party items linked through the Web, built into InDesign.