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Custom color palettes are collections of colors that you save. They can include colors from any color model, including spot colors, or color palette found in the Palette libraries. You can create a custom palette to store all of the colors that you need in a current, or future, project.
This makes it easy for you to share the color palettes with others. The custom palettes are accessible from the My palettes folder in the Color Palette Manager.
You can create a custom color palette by choosing individual colors or by using the colors in a selected object or an entire document. You can also edit, rename, and delete custom color palettes.
Custom color palettes are saved as .XML files and are stored in the x:\Documents and Settings\your name\My Documents folder.
To create a custom color palette from scratch |
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Click Window Dockers Color palette manager.
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Click the Creates a new empty color palette button.
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Type a filename in the File name box.
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Click Save.
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In the Color palette manager, choose the custom palette that you created.
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Click the Opens the Palette editor button.
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In the Palette editor dialog box, click Add color.
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In the Select color dialog box, choose a color, and click Add to palette.
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To add a color to a custom color palette |
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Open a custom color palette.
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Perform a task from the following table.
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When dragging most vector objects, all object colors are added to the palette.
However, when dragging a bitmap, only the five most dominant colors are
added. If an object includes a fountain fill, texture fill, or pattern fill, only colors
that are defined during the fill creation are supported. Colors from PostScript
fills are not supported.
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To create a color palette from an object |
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Select an object.
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Click Window Color palettes Create palette from selection.
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Type a filename in the File name box.
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Click Save.
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To create a color palette from a document |
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Click Window Color palettes Create palette from document.
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Type a filename in the File name box.
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Click Save.
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To edit a custom color palette |
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Click Window Color palettes Palette editor.
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Choose a palette from the list box.
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Perform a task from the following table.
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You can delete multiple colors by holding down Shift or Ctrl, clicking the
colors that you want to delete, and clicking Delete color.
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If you add a process color to the palette, but treat it as a spot color, the color is
changed to spot and the color name is preserved. However, if you choose a spot
color with a trademarked name, for example a PANTONE color, and convert
it to a process color, the trademarked name is substituted with the color
components for that color.
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To rename a custom color palette |
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Click Window Dockers Color palette manager.
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From the My Palettes folder, right-click a custom palette, and click Rename.
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Type a new name, and press Enter.
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To delete a custom color palette |
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Click Window Dockers Color palette manager.
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From the My Palettes folder, right-click a custom palette, and click Delete.
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