Opening the Color Palette

The color palette appears when you click a colored square in the Properties panel or you click one of the color tools to apply line, fill, or text color to a selected object.

To open the color palette

1. In a configuration screen, click the colored square next to the Color field.

   The Color dialog appears.

   

2. Click the Basic and Web tabs to access other classic color palette.

3. Do any of the following:

   • Click anywhere in the color display and use the slider to adjust the color. To specify that you want 100% of the color with no white or black, press ALT + O.

   • Type values in the Red, Green and Blue boxes to define a color. You can experiment with these values by observing the color matrix. Notice the values for hue, saturation and luminosity also change.

   • Type values in the Hue, Sat,and Lum boxes to define a color. As you change any of these values, the red, green, and blue scales change to match.

     Hue is a discrete color value, where 0 is red, 60 is yellow, 120 is green, 180 is cyan, 200 is magenta, and 240 is blue.

     Saturation is the amount of color in a specified hue, up to a maximum of 240.

     Luminosity is the brightness of a color.

4. Click OK.

   The color dialog closes and the color you selected is applied.