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154 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency
Using the Colour Selector
The Colour Selector is a complementary dialog to the Colour and Swatch tabs
and is accessible by double-clicking one of the Colour tab's swatch or from
Format>Fill. It lets you choose a colour to apply from a range of different
palettes and allows you to mix custom colours.
• The Models tab displays the colour space of several established colour
models: RGB (red, green blue), HSL (hue, saturation, lightness),
CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black), PANTONE® colors, or
registration colour.
• The Palette tab displays the colours currently present in the Swatch
tab’s Document Palette, i.e. your drawing’s current palette. The
Document Palette can be saved as described in the sub-topic
Managing colour and palettes.
Managing colours and palettes
DrawPlus ships with a varied selection of palettes, stored separately as .PLT files.
The RGB and CMYK palettes can be loaded, along with other “themed” palettes
including Earth, Pastels, and Soft Tones. The “themed” palettes offer an
alternative to using the RGB and CMYK palettes. Palettes can also be created,
deleted and, for the Document Palette, saved.
Colours in the Document palette (as shown in the Swatch tab) are just saved
locally, along with the drawing's current defaults. That is, the colours don't
automatically carry over to new drawings. However changes to the other palettes
are saved globally, in that colour changes will carry over to new documents
automatically.
To load a named palette:
1. In the Swatch tab, click the down arrow on the
Palettes
button.
2. From the resulting drop-down menu, select an Standard RGB,
Standard CMYK, or “themed” palette, or a palette that you’ve created
yourself.