Operation Manual

64 Working with Graphics, Animation, and Multimedia
Editing colors
By now you’ve had a chance to apply colors from the Studio’s
Attributes tab to various kinds of objects. We’ve also described how
you can employ scheme colors as a “paint-by-numbers” system that
allows you to quickly swap one set of colors for another throughout
your site. WebPlus gives you a large assortment of gallery colors to
start with, and a wide variety of built-in color schemes... but it should
come as no surprise that you can easily edit the colors, add new ones,
and store custom colors and schemes for later use.
Each WebPlus site has a particular set of solid colors, known as a
palette, which appears as a set of gallery swatches in the Attributes
tab’s Color panel. However, a site can also include colors that aren’t
part of its palette, and hence don’t appear in the Color panel gallery.
For example, you might apply a gallery color to an object and then
modify its shade/tint value, creating a unique color.
To add a custom color to the site’s palette (so it appears in the gallery),
right-click any sample in the Color panel gallery and choose Add..., or
(to add an object’s solid fill color) right-click the object and choose
Add Fill to Studio. To edit a specific palette color, right-click it and
choose Edit.... In each case, the Color Selector dialog appears. You can
choose a preferred color model (RGB, HSL, or CMYK), mix a new
color, then click Add to Palette or OK to update the site.
Color schemes revisited
In Chapter 4 we mentioned that each color scheme includes three
adjunct colors. Two of these apply to Hyperlinks and Followed
Hyperlinks; the third defines the page Background color. You have the
option of defining a tiled (repeated) picture, usually a bitmap pattern,
which works just like desktop “wallpaper”—so a small bitmap can go a
long way. The color scheme sample shows
if it uses a tiled bitmap.
Note that even in this case, the defined Background color is still active
and will show through transparent regions (if any) in the bitmap.
To modify or create a color scheme, choose Scheme Manager... from
the Tools menu (or after right-clicking any color scheme sample). The
Scheme Manager appears, with the current scheme colors shown on the
Edit tab.