The Color
Chooser appears when you double-click a color swatch
(for example, in the Attribute Editor).
The Color
Chooser lets you:
- Select colors for property or materials
from the Color Wheel or Color
Palette.
- Import images and choose colors from
them.
- Blend colors together.
- Save frequenty used colors in the Color
History.
- Create custom palettes.
A compact version of
the Color Chooser that appears
when you single-click a swatch. This version consists of many of
the same components as the full Color Chooser,
but the overall window is scaled down.
Controls
Color History
The Color
History shows you your current selected color and provides
you with ways to quickly pick and re-pick existing colors in the
scene.
- Current/Previous color
-
The large colored box
in the Color History is split into
two sections. The upper section displays your current selected color
while the lower section displays the previously selected color.
- Eyedropper
-
Click the eyedropper
icon and then any color in the scene or Color Chooser to
change the current color.
- Persistent color palette
-
Select any of the basic
colors and shades by clicking the color palette in the Color
History. This palette always contains the same colors.
- History
-
As you continually set
colors on an object, those colors are added to the history so you
can select them again in the future.
Color Wheel
The color wheel provides
you with a number of ways to select colors.
Ring
- Drag the cursor around the outer ring
to change the color displayed in the center box.
- Select the shade of your color from the
box.
This is also available
in the compact Color Chooser.
Spectrum
- Drag the cursor around the spectrum field
to choose a color.
- Drag the slider at the bottom to adjust
the shade.
Image
The Image tab
allows you to sample colors directly from an image.
- Load an image into the box by either:
- Dragging an image from a browser into
the box.
- Clicking the load button and navigating
to your image from the file browser
- Drag the mouse over the loaded image
to magnify a specific region of it.
- Release the mouse button to set the current
color under the cursor.
Blend
The Blend tab
allows you to blend four colors together and choose any shade between
them.
- Drag any color from the Color
Palettes to one of the corners to change the colors being
blended.
- Select a color by clicking it in the
region.
Numeric Input
Numerical color values
are entered using the Numeric Input section,
by:
Color Palettes
The Color
Palette allows you to store up to 256 colors per palette.
It allows you to:
- Select a color from the palette at any
time by clicking it.
- Move a palette color by -dragging
it from one spot to another.
- Store the current color by -clicking
a spot in the palette.
- Choose between multiple palettes from
the drop-down menu.
- Load existing palettes or save palettes
by clicking the Load and Save buttons.