Choosing Colors

Color Picker

Use the Color Picker to select and add colors to your color palettes. To open the Color Picker, click the button in the right menu.

The Color Picker in the Colorway UI.

Tip:  Click the More button to set the CMYK, HSV, and RGB values.

Selecting Colors in the Color Picker

1.   Choose Solid from the Color Type options.

This specifies you want to create a solid color with no gradient.

See Creating and Adding Gradients to Your Parts for more information on the Linear and Radial color types.

2.   To pick a color you can:

Click on the color slider to select a color value, then click on the color wheel to select a color hue.

OR

Use the eyedropper tool to pick an on-screen color in either Colorway or outside Colorway.

OR

Type a specific Hex code into the Hex field, for example: #FFFFFF.

OR

Specify values in the CMYK, HSV, or RGB fields.

Tip:  Click the More button to expand the CMYK, HSV, and RGB values. Click the Hide button to hide them.

Once you've selected a color, the square color swatch updates with the selected color.

3.   To apply the selected swatch to an item:

Click and drag the color swatch onto an item or part on the sheet or item tree.

Tip:  If your part has materials or textures applied, hover the swatch over the part to see more options for applying the swatch to specific material layer and texture layers.

OR

With an item or part already selected, left-click the swatch.

Tip:  You can see live updates to colors on your parts by enabling the Live update assigned color option in the Colorway Preferences.

Adding Colors in the Color Picker to Palettes

There are several methods for adding color swatches into your color palettes:

• Right-click the color swatch, choose Add Color To... and select the palette you want to add the swatch to.

• With a color palette already selected, double-click the color swatch.

• With a color palette undocked, drag and drop the color swatch into the palette.

Tip:  See Working with Palettes for more information on selecting, creating, and undocking palettes.

Selecting All Parts That Share the Same Color

You can select all parts that share the same color so they can all be edited together.

  1. Select a part of your DCI

    2. This can is done by selecting a part from the item tree, or by selecting a part on the canvas

  2. Navigate to Select>Same>Editor Color

All parts that share a color are now selected. New colors or textures can now be applied to multiple parts at once.