Navigation Buttons
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The five buttons on the left are navigation buttons. They also display the selected color. When no color has been selected, they display the average color of the drawing, as they do here:
You can right click on any palette button and get information about the color - it will display on the status bar. Left click the center of the five buttons to launch the ColorCaps color picker. The color displayed by the Color Picker will be the selected color:
Cancel out of the Color Picker. Notice the palette label on the status bar just below the center of the palette bar: "Condensed Palette: Rosewood". Condensed means not all the colors are displayed, and this is where the navigation buttons come in. Conceptually, the full palette is to the right of the condensed palette. It's not visible because there is only enough room to display the condensed palette. Use the navigation buttons pointing to the right to get into the full palette. The double arrow button will skip some of the full palette colors so you can get to the part you want more quickly. There are often 250 or even 500 colors in the main palette.
Notice that initially the left arrows are dimmed, because there are no palette colors to the left of the condensed palette. Similarly, then you get to the very right end of the main palette, the right arrows will dim.
As you scroll through the full palette, the pallete button corresponding to the selected color will be shown pressed down so you can easily make relative color selections.
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Automatic Palettes
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Up on the Palette menu there are six automatic palettes: Drawing, Recent, Pencils, Hue, Saturation, and Brightness.
The Drawing palette is a collection of colors that are found in the drawing. The Recent palette is the collection of colors that have been selected since the program was started. The Pencils palette corresponds roughly to the PrismaColor colored pencils.
The Hue, Saturation, and Brightness palettes are created from the selected color, allowing you to easily make relative selections. Use the Hue palette to alter the hue, the saturation palette to alter saturation, etc.
Note that these automatic palettes can be quickly launched with F2,F3,F4 and F5,F6,F7 respectively.
At the bottom of the menu are the recently used file-based palettes. These are palettes that were previously saved.
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Adding and Naming Colors
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Whenever a color is selected, it is automatically added to the Recent palette. You can't use Palette\Add Color to add the selected color to an automatic palette, but you can add the selected color to a file-based palette, and the new color will be retained when the palette is saved.
Use Palette\Name Color to provide a name for any color in a file-based palette.
Use Palette\Remove Color to delete a color from a file-based palette.
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