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first. You can do this by holding "Ctrl" down when clicking on the object in the
SELECTOR TOOL. Another way of directly selecting the photo is to click on it in the
PHOTO TOOL.
Page Background Color
To set the page background color, right click a page, choose CHANGE PAGE
BACKGROUND
and click a color in the COLOR EDITOR. Alternatively you can drag a color
from the Color Line over the page and drop it on an empty part of the page.
To set a repeating background texture, drag the photo or bitmap onto your
document. Open the Bitmap Gallery, scroll to the photo you just loaded, click
on it to select it, and then click the Background button on the gallery.
Creating your own Named Colors
If you want to use a color many times throughout a document, you can create your
own named color by clicking the Name label on the top of the Color Editor. This color
will now appear on the Color Line.
Click the label icon to create a Named Color
The power of a named color is that when you edit it later (right click the color in the
Color Line, select
EDIT) all objects using this color are instantly changed.
Linked shades
You can create colors that are lighter or darker shades of another color, so that when
you alter the 'parent' color, all the lighter and darker shades change to match the new
hue. For example a graduated color shade on a button, such as this:
This is a simple rounded rectangle with a graduated color
fill created with the
FILL TOOL. In the FILL TOOL you can
click on the either end of the arrow to set the color.