Choosing colors

General techniques

Choosing colors

There are many places in Animo 2.0 where you'll need to choose a color. You do so using the ColorChooser window. This provides various methods for choosing, blending and comparing both colors and grays, based on different color models used in broadcasting and printing. You can switch between color methods at any time; for example, you can use one method to specify a color, and later use a different method to modify it.

The Color Chooser window

To display the ColorChooser window, choose Tools > Colors. The window has a hidden menu; to display it click with the right mouse button on the title bar. Use this menu to control which sections of the window appear; below we show the window with all sections visible:

The color well shows the current color you have chosen. This is overlaid on a black and white square, to show how opaque the color is:

The magnifier is an area you can use to choose a color from anything displayed on your screen; see Using the magnifying glass.

The opacity slider sets the opacity of the current color.

The palette is a place where you can store a 'swatch' of your most frequently used colors, which you can choose with a single click of the mouse.

The color comparer lets you see the current color next to another color, so you can see how the colors may look next to each other in a drawing.

The color blender is a region where you can set up a blend between two or four colors, and then choose a color from that blend.

Because the window is so large, below we'll only show the parts of it that are relevant to each description.

General techniques

Choosing colors

The Color Chooser window