Choosing Colours

Opus provides an onscreen palette for you to quickly select colours for the main properties of your Opus objects such as background and border. The colour palette appears at the bottom of the Opus workspace.

Note:
If the colour palette is not displayed in the Opus workspace, select Palette Bar from the View menu to open it.

Below is an illustration of the Palette Bar, please note the colours extend across the Opus workspace:

$image\Palette_Bar.jpg$

The Palette Bar tools are:

$image\Palette_Tool_Fill_Pen.jpg$	The left box is the Fill colour box – this is used for the background colour and fill colour for drawn objects. The right box is the Pen colour box – this is used for the outlines of drawn (vectors objects and borders.
$image\Palette_Tool_Swap.jpg$	The Swap button will reverse the two colours shown in the Fill and Pen colour box.
$image\Palette_Tool_Dropper.jpg$	The Colour Picker tool is like a dropper it allows you to pick up a colour from anywhere on the screen, allowing you to match existing colours in your publication perfectly – see Colour Picker for more information.
$image\Palette_Tool_Add.jpg$	The Add New Blank Palette button will allow you to add a new custom colour palette to the Palette Bar – see Custom Colour Palettes for more information.
$image\Palette_Tool_Remove.jpg$	The Remove Current Palette button will remove the colour palette that is open in the Palette Bar.
$image\Palette_Tool_Left.jpg$	The Scroll Previous button allows you to scroll back through the palette colour list. Keep the button pressed to speed up the scroll rate.
$image\Palette_Tool_Right.jpg$	The Scroll Next button allows you to scroll forward through the palette colour list. Again, keep the button pressed to speed up the scroll rate.
$image\Palette_Tool_Transparent.jpg$	The Transparent button allows you to set either the foreground or background transparent. Left mouse click to set the Pen (foreground) colour transparent or Right mouse click to select the Fill (background) colour as transparent.
$image\Palette_Tool_Hue.jpg$	The Hue and Luminance display. Hold down the left mouse button (Fill colour) or the right mouse button (Pen colour) on a colour on the palette to see a popup display of the Luminance (shown horizontally) and Hue (shown vertically) of the selected colour. The illustration on the left will appear if you select the following colour from the palette: $image\Palette_Tool_Colour.jpg$

To select the Fill colour:

Click on one of the colour wells with the Left mouse button.

To select the Pen colour:

Click on one of the colour wells with the Right mouse button.

Note:

By default the standard palette of colours is displayed to the right of the Palette Bar tools. However, you can create your own colours with the Colour Selector – see Using the Colour Selector for more information.

Related Topics:
Custom Colour Palettes

Colour Picker