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Creating a Tint, Shade or Linked color
See above for a description of Tints, Shades and Linked colors
. They are useful where you want a lighter or darker shade to track that of a parent color.
Tints, shades and Linked color have to have a master "parent" color, which needs to be a named
color, so that when you change this parent color, the tint will change as well. So, if necessary, first create
a named color (see Creating new named colors
).
To create a tint, shade or linked color:
1.
Select the object or objects to which you want to apply the color.
2.
Open the Color Editor showing the advanced options.
3.
Select the "normal color" drop-down menu and select the Tint, Shade, or Linked option.
4.
From the Parent dropdown menu, select the named color that you want this color to be linked
to.
5.
Adjust the Tint, Shade or Linked color on the top section of the color editor.
If the tint, shade and linked color options aren't included in the color type drop down list, this probably
means you haven't yet created a named color to link to, or that you are editing the one and only named
color in the design.
On the left you can see the new color is a tint of the parent "yellow" and so the editor provides only paler
tints of the parent color. On the right, if you select a shade, you get to choose any lighter or darker
shades of the parent color.
If you want to use this color in many places in the document it's recommended that you also make this a
Named Color, so it appears on the Color Line, for easy picking. Just click on the New Named Color
label icon on the top of the Color Editor and give it a name. It will now appear on the Color Line where
you can pick it for use on other objects.
Editing the parent color
The key point of using tints, shades and linked colors is that they track any changes to the parent color.
To see this working try editing the Named color that is the parent (drag it from the Color Line to the
Color Editor
and alter the color). You will see the objects with the tint, shade or linked color change in sync with the
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