User Manual

118 Painting and Drawing

Storing colors

If you want to save

colors that you want

to work with

frequently, you can

store them in the

Swatches tab as

thumbnails (this

avoids continually

defining colors in

the Color tab). The

Swatches tab hosts

galleries of

categorized color

thumbnails.

If hidden, make this tab visible via Window>Studio Tabs.

You can store your currently selected foreground color (in Color tab) to the

currently selected category (e.g., G_234); you can also create categories yourself

into which you can add your own thumbnails. The Swatches tab also lets you

choose pre-defined colors from a range of "themed" categories (e.g., Earth,

Fruits, Pastel, and web browser safe).

To add a color to the Swatches tab:

1. Either:

Choose a color from the Color tab's color spectrum.

Select the Color Pickup Tool and hover over then click on a chosen

color.

You’ll notice the Color tab’s foreground color swatch change.

2. From the Swatches tab, pick the correct category to store the color.

3. Click the New Swatch button to add the foreground color to the

current gallery.