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Blending your own colors

If you don't like the colors in the available color palettes and color groups, it's easy to make up your own.

Method 1:

If the color you want to modify is set as main color at the top left of the palette panel, click once in the main color square. This will open the Mac Color Picker panel. If not already set, choose the color wheel (see at right) or color sliders.

The existing main color will now be set in the upper rectangle of the Color Picker. The color wheel contains a tiny black and white square; click and drag this square around the color wheel. This should make the main color change to match the color in the color wheel.

If the selected color is present in your weaving draft, it will change in step with changes made in the color wheel.

Single click in the alternative color square to link it to the color wheel and adjust in the same way. If you double click either the main or the alternative color, the Mac Color Picker will open, but won't be linked to the color in the Fiberworks palette panel.

color picker and color palette

To change other colors in the palette, single click a color patch to make it the main color. The color can then be adjusted using Mac color wheel or sliders.

color panel button

Method 2:

You can also open the Mac Color Picker by clicking the toolbar icon shown at right. The disadvantage of this method is that the color picker is not automatically linked to the Fiberworks Color Palette.

color panel button

First create a new color using either the the Mac Color Wheel or the Color Sliders. The color can then be dragged from the upper horizontal rectangle of the Color Picker and dropped into the Fiberworks Color Palette. You can't drag colors out of the color wheel itself.

The Mac Color Picker has a "play area" grid under the color wheel where you can blend a series of new colors and drop them into the grid.

Colors can then be dragged one by one from the play area into the Fiberworks Color Palette.

If you like a particular combination of colors that you have created and think you may want to reuse in future, you can save them as one or more color groups. Go to the Colors menu, Save a Color Group menu item. If your palette has 82 or more colors, each column of color patches is one color group. For palettes of 42 colors, both columns make up one color group.

Your Color Palettes are also saved with the design file that uses them.