Create custom colors

You can create a palette of custom colors.

Create a custom color

1. Open the color palette.

2. In the Custom Palette area, select a color and select Add Custom Color.

   

3. View the resulting color in the Color|Solid box.

   If your monitor is set to display 256 colors, the Color|Solid box might show two colors. The right side shows how the selected color appears as a solid color. The left side shows the dithered color, or the approximation of the specific color using two of the 256 colors.

4. Select OK.

You can also create custom colors using the eye dropper tool.

Note: Use this feature for creating transparent bitmaps.

Select a custom color with the eye dropper tool

5. Open the Color Palette.

6. Select the eye dropper tool and then select the color that you want to add.