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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.