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>The <SPAN
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>Color Palette</SPAN
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> You have two tab folders in the <SPAN
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>Color
Palette</SPAN
> dialog. One to select the palette you want to
use and one to interact with the palette that you select.
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> Within the <SPAN
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>Select</SPAN
> tab, you will see
small thumbnails of all available palettes. There is also
information about the number of colors in the palettes and
their names. You can choose a palette for direct usage by
simply clicking on it and shifting to the
<SPAN
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> tab. You can edit the palette
you selected by clicking on the <SPAN
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Note that you can also edit a palette in the
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> tab folder, but the
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> Within the <SPAN
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with your palette. The primary usage of the dialog is,
naturally, to choose colors from the palette.
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> It is very cumbersome to use the <SPAN
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>color
selector</SPAN
> to choose colors when you work with
a project. The best way to work is to have a color
palette.
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> You can, however, also use this window to edit the palette.
<SPAN
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>Right</SPAN
> click (and hold) on a color
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cell and a menu will appear. Within the menu you can edit
the color in the cell, delete the cell, or create a new cell
which will be added in the bottom row of your palette. The
name which appears when you either
<SPAN
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>right</SPAN
> or
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>left</SPAN
> click on a color cell can
also be changed. All changes that you make in the palette
will be autosaved and available immediately.
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> The <SPAN
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out in the palette.
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