Customizing available colors

You can customize the colors on the color panel of the Accents window. Any changes you make also appear in the Color pop-up palette of the Tools window. For best results when customizing colors, set your monitor to the Thousands of Colors setting (or higher) using the Display pane of System Preferences.

Note: This section is about editing the color palette available in the Accents and Tools windows. It is not about changing the colors of objects or images.

When you customize a color in the Accents window, the change also affects any place in the document where you used the previous color.

To customize a color:
1 If the Accents window is not open, choose Show Accents from the Window menu.
2 Double-click the color you want to edit.
3 From the scrolling list on the left, select a color-picking method:
CMYK lets you specify colors based on percentages of the four colors used in printing: C=cyan, M=magenta, Y=yellow, K=black.
Crayon lets you pick from 48 colors displayed as a box of crayons.
HSV lets you pick from a color wheel or set specific values for Hue Angle (in degrees), Saturation (percentage), and Value (percentage).
Name lets you specify Web-safe colors based on hexadecimal values (from 00 to FF).
RGB lets you specify colors based on percentage values for the three primary colors of light: R=red, G=green, B=blue.
4 Edit the color and click OK.

Changes you make to a color palette apply only to the Tools and Accents windows of the current document, but you can save the settings as a custom palette and use it in other AppleWorks documents.

Related topics

  Customizing the available colors and other attributes
Changing colors and other attributes
Changing the appearance of objects
Changing the appearance of painted images

 
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