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- Palette (Color Menu)
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- DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE -> `Palette_Mixer.sdemo`
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- MIXER (p, or right button click on the color indicator in the toolbox)
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- Displays the MIXER requester. This lets you define the color
- values in your palette. using a variety of controls:
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- SEE -> `Mixer.pic`
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- Clicking on the button at the far left of the screen switches
- between the RGB & HSV slider controls.
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- The R, G, & B sliders adjust a colors RED, GREEN and BLUE values.
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- The H, S, & V sliders control HUE (the color's position in the
- color spectrum ranging from red to purple), SATURATION (the
- amount of white in the color; with high SATURATION being pure
- color and low SATURATION containing more white), and VALUE (the
- amount of black in a color).
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- SPREAD creates uniform gradations between two colors. First
- click on a starting color, click Spread, then click on the color
- that you want to gradation to proceed towards.
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- EX (EXCHANGE) swaps the positions of two colors.
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- PICK lets you choose a color that exists on the screen. The
- pointer will change to an eyedropper image so that you can
- click on a color to edit. The color you click on, will become
- the current color in the requester. Changing the values of
- a color will affect the palette and areas where that color exists
- on the screen.
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- NOTE: In HAM mode, only the areas on the screen that use the
- first 16 colors of the palette are affected by the sliders.
- Other color areas will not change when you move the
- sliders, even if you use the PICK function to choose
- the color directly from the screen.
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- COPY allows you to duplicate a color to another position.
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- DELETE lets you remove a color definition or a range of colors
- from the palette.
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- While the mixer requester is displayed, the painting screen is still
- active and the palette bar in the requester takes the place of
- selecting colors from the toolbox. 32 colors are available at a time,
- with more available by clicking the arrows to the right of the palette
- bar to move up or down to different color rows. Up to 8 rows or 256
- colors can be defined at a time.
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- The mixing area lets you create new colors from other colors by
- electronically simulating the mixing of real paint. You can then PICK
- colors you create in the mixing area and position them in the palette.
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- NOTE: If you click OK in the Mixer requester or call up another
- requester such as the ARRANGE or RANGE requester, anything you
- have done in the mixing area will be lost. Use the keyboard
- equivalent, p, to toggle the mixer display and to keep the
- mixing area intact.
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- ARRANGE (SHIFT P)
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- SEE -> `Arrange.pic`
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- DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE -> `Palette_Arrange.sdemo`
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- Displays the ARRANGE requester. This provides access to more palette
- colors at once.
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- DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE -> `Palette_Options.sdemo`
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- USE BRUSH PALETTE: When a brush is loaded, Dpaint continues to use the
- current picture palette. If you wish to apply the brush's original
- palette to the current one, select this option.
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- RESTORE PALETTE: selecting this option will return you to the palette that
- existed before the last palette change or the palette of the last
- picture or animation that was loaded.
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- DEFAULT PALETTE: Selecting this option will revert to the palette that
- DPaint uses when it is first loaded.
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