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4.2.14 Color manager

The Color manager (also refered to as Palette in other parts of the documentation) manages your frequently used colors, allows you the selection and export of (new) colors, the creation, loading and saving of palettes, etc.

The tasks of the respective gadgets in enumerated sequence are as follows:

4.2.14.1 Manual color selection

With the help of the sliders you can manually set the red-, green- and blue-parts of the current color. The "g" (for gray) slider allows you to easily select any gray tone.

4.2.14.2 Load palette

This function loads a fxPAINT-palette and replaces your current palette entries.

4.2.14.3 Save palette

Using this function you can save your current palette entries for future use. If you want fxPAINT to use your current colors as default, save the palette as "fxPAINT:Storage/Palettes/Standard.pal".

4.2.14.4 Gradient between two colors

If you want to create a gradient between two colors of the palette, at first choose the starting color, then click on this button and select the destination color.

4.2.14.5 Farben tauschen

From time to time you may want to exchange two colors in the palette. First click on the color to exchange, then on this button and finally on the color acting as an exchange partner.

4.2.14.6 Attach current color

If you want to overwrite your currently selected palette entry with the currently set color, click on this button.

4.2.14.7 Export HTML-colorcode

This function exports the currently set color as HTML-code to your system's clipboard. From there you can e.g. insert it in your favourite HTML-editor.

4.2.14.8 Select color choosing mode

Here you can switch between three color modes of the color manager: the palette with its entries, a 24 Bit gradient and the display of current color in HTML notation. All functions dealing with palette entries are only available in palette mode.


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