Operation Manual

118 | Working with Colour and Transparency
To change a solid colour's shade/tint (lightness):
1. Select the object and set the Line/Fill Swatch in the Colour tab so the Fill
Swatch appears in front of the Line swatch.
2. From the Colour Display mode drop-down menu, select Tinting.
3. Drag the Shade/Tint slider to the left or right to darken or lighten your
starting colour, respectively (the original colour is set at 0%). You can
also enter a percentage value in the box (entering 0 or dragging the
pointer back to its original position reverts to the original colour).
See WebPlus help for information on editing colours and managing
gallery colours.
Using colour schemes
Each WebPlus site uses a global colour scheme which you can manage using
the Scheme Manager. Each scheme has a name and consists of five
complementary basic colours which you can apply to any design element.
(These work like a paint-by-numbers system, as explained below.) In addition,
each scheme includes adjunct colours which apply specifically to hyperlinks
(default, followed and active) and page backgrounds. Switching to a different
colour scheme instantly updates all elements that use scheme colours!
Colour schemes in WebPlus 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 (see the
flower opposite, using the "Beacon"
scheme). Swapping different colours into
the "paint jars" numbered 1 to 5, while
keeping the numbers on the flower the
same, would automatically produce quite
a different colouration.
In WebPlus, the "paint jars" are 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."