Adding colors to the Painters' Palette

Creating a color reference model

Adding colors to the Painters' Palette

When you open a color reference model for the first time, the Palette window contains a Painters' Palette, containing just the default palette wells (described in Default palette wells):

For more information about the Painters' palette, refer to About palettes.

As well as choosing colors for paint regions, you should also note the following:

Indicate the color of self-color lines on the color model.

Any color may be made semi-transparent.

To selectively add colors to the Painters' palette, either:

Use the color wheel to select colors.

Copy colors from a palette, by dragging.

Copy colors from a palette, using Copy and Paste.

The procedures for selectively adding colors to the Painters' palette using the above methods are described in the following sections.

You can also copy an entire palette into the Painters' palette. For more information, refer to Copying palettes between color models.

Using the color wheel

Choose Tools > Colors to display the ColorChooser window.

Choose a color from the ColorChooser window. (For more information on choosing colors, refer to Choosing colors.)

: If you want, you can display a piece of background artwork in the Painting Window so that the colors you choose have some context. For more information, refer to Adding backgrounds.

Drag the color from the color well in the ColorChooser window to a palette well in the Palette Window.

Continue to assign colors until you have created all the colors needed for the character. If you need to, use the scroll bar or enlarge the Palette window to access more palette wells.

Creating a color reference model

Adding colors to the Painters' Palette

Using the color wheel