Operation Manual

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Using colour schemes
In PagePlus, a colour scheme is a cluster of five complementary colours that
you can apply to specific elements in one or more publications. The Schemes
tab displays preset schemes which can be selected at any point during the design
process.
Each publication can have just one colour scheme at a time; the current scheme
is highlighted in the Schemes tab. You can easily switch schemes, modify
scheme colours and create custom schemes. Colour schemes are saved globally,
so the full set of schemes is always available.
How colour schemes work
Colour schemes in PagePlus work much like a paint-by-numbers system, where
various regions of a layout are coded with numbers, and a specific colour is
assigned (by number) to each region. For example, imagine a line drawing
coded with the numbers 1 through 5. To fill it in, you'd use paint from jars also
numbered 1 through 5. Swapping different colours into the paint jars, while
keeping the numbers on the drawing the same, would produce quite a different
painting.
In PagePlus, the "paint jars" are five
numbers you can assign to objects in
your publication. They're known as
"Scheme Colour 1," "Scheme Colour 2,"
and so on. When you apply Scheme
Colour 1 to an object, it's like saying,
"Put the colour from jar number 1 here."