Using the Colour Selector

The Colour Selector is used to select a new colour that can be used in your publication or to create new colours in your Custom Colour Palette. Custom colours can be used with a variety of objects in Opus, such as the outline and fill colours for drawn objects or as a background colour for any of the other Tool objects.

To add a colour to the Colour Selector:

Click on the L button in the Custom panel to open the Load Palette dialog box. The dialog allows you to find the location of an existing Custom Palette in which you want to add new colour(s) – see Load and Save Palette dialogs for more information.
Alternatively, if you clicked the Add Blank Palette $image\Palette_Tool_Add.jpg$ button in the Colour Palette, double-click on the blank colour well in the customised colour palette to open the Colour Selector dialog box.
Click on the $image\Colour_Well_X.jpg$ colour well in the Custom panel. The colour well will be highlighted in blue and the new colour you select will be placed in a colour well above this one.
Select a colour close to the one you want either by:

Clicking one of the colours in the Presets panel on the left of the dialog box.
Clicking on the colour in the colour wheel on the right of the dialog box.
Clicking inside the HTML Code box if you want to add a particular colour.

Click on the Luminance slider to get the approximate shade you require.
To get the precise colour you require, either:

Click on the RGB boxes, then use the spin buttons to change the Red, Green or Blue constituent of the colour.
Click on the HSL boxes, the use the spin buttons to change the Hue, Saturation or Lightness of the colour.

Click on the A button in the Custom panel to add the colour. There are alternative methods of adding the colour to the colour well – see Examples.

Note:
If the colour has already been added to the palette, a warning dialog box will appear. You can then decide to add it to the palette again, either before the currently selected colour well or at the end of palette colour, or you can press the Cancel button to not add the colour.

Click on the S button in the Custom panel to save the custom palette. The Save Palette dialog box will automatically be opened – see Load and Save Palette dialogs for more information.
Click on the OK button to close the Colour Selector dialog.

To remove a colour from the Colour Selector:

Click on the colour well in the Custom panel that you want to remove.
Click on the R button in the Custom panel to remove the colour.
Click on the S button in the Custom panel to save your changes. The Save Palette dialog box will automatically be opened – seeLoad and Save Palette dialogs for more information.
Click on the OK button to close the Colour Selector dialog.

Note:
For your convenience Opus also keeps track of your most recently used colours in a Colour History – as shown in the History panel of the Colour Selector dialog. This enables you to quickly pick colours you are using regularly in a particular publication but which you do not want to include in your custom colours palette.