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Create or Open a Project

The Colorway Project Structure

A project in Colorway is represented as a folder structure on your disk. In the main folder, you can find the following:

• Assets - This folder contains the assets that are embedded in your project.

• Documents - This folder contains the documents in your project.

• Palettes - This folder contains the palettes that you create or import to your project.

• Repositories - This folder contains your local repositories.

• Project.cway - The main project file. This is the file loaded to open the project.

Create a Project

This video shows how to create a new Colorway project.

In the video:

• Colorway opens with 2 tabs, New Project and Open Recent.

• The New Project tab contains presets: Film/Tv (default), Mobile, Print, and Custom.

• To create a new project:

• In the New Project tab, enter the Name of the project and press Enter or click OK.

Note:  Modifying the project settings takes you to the Custom tab as you are no longer strictly using one of the presets.

• If you already have an existing project open, navigate to File > New Project or press Ctrl/Cmd + N.

Creating a Project from a Colorway Asset

Colorway also allows you to create a new project from a Colorway asset.

1.

Select File > New Project from Colorway Asset.

2.

Navigate to the Colorway asset that you would like to open and click Select.

Colorway creates a new project at the resolution of the .dci file.

Opening an Existing Project

This video shows how to open an existing Colorway project.

In this video:

• Colorway opens with 2 tabs, New Project and Open Recent.

• To open an existing project:

• In the Open Recent tab, select a project.
• Click the Open Existing button.

• If you already have a project open:

• Navigate to File > Open Project or press Ctrl/Cmd + O.

OR

• Navigate to File > Open Recent or press Ctrl/Cmd + R.

Opening a Project

To open an existing Colorway project, do the following.

1.

Select lick File > Open Project or press Ctrl/Cmd+O on the keyboard.

2.

In the file browser, navigate to, and select the project file (.cway).

3.

Click Open.

To open a recently-used project, select File > Open Recent. The five most recently-used projects are listed here. Click on the one you would like to open.