Xara Webster - Clipart Using Connected Colors

Many of the items of Clipart on the Xara web site you can download using the Web Clipart button in the Clipart Gallery use 'connected colors' so all the different shades of a color are connected together so changing one of them changes them all. This means you can load a piece of clipart and easily change its color with a few mouse clicks. The three banner bitmaps here were all created using Xara Webster from a single piece of clipart (to find out how to make bitmaps like these yourself using Xara Webster, see Creating a Button Bitmap).

To Change a Connected Color

Load a clipart file using connected colors
From the Utilities menu, choose Color Gallery
In the section of the gallery for the drawing you have loaded, you'll see the connected color(s).
To edit a connected color, click it and click the Edit button in the gallery or drag it to the Color Editor.

Tip

If you want more than one copy of a piece of clipart in your drawing and you want them to be different colors, import the first copy, change its color and import the file again. You can then change the colors of the two copies independently.

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