To be sure that you always select the same colour, you can drag colours from the rectangle next to the magnifying glass to the strip at the bottom of the window.
The strip contains 15 squares by default, and that should be more than enough for most people. However, if you need more, you can drag the the dot below to make room for more squares.
You may need several sets of colours. Let's for example say that you want one particular set of three colours in one document but another set of three colours in another document. You can handle that as well in the Color window, using the third tab, called "Color Palettes".
Here you can choose between a few pre-defined palettes, like Apple, Web Safe Colors or Developer, but you can also create your own ones, clicking on the wheel, and choosing "New".
You can of course rename both the colours and the colour palettes to whatever names you like.
So, how do you select colours for your palettes? You can do this in (at least) two ways.
One is to click on the magnifying glass and then click on an area of the screen that has a colour you want to capture.
The other method is to select a colour using one of the other icons on the top. Then go back to the "Color palettes" icon.
After you have selected a colour, you drag it into the empty area of your palette or click on the + button. That's it. You do not even have to save, as the colour palette has auto-save (in contrast to Pages documents).
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I learned something new! I've been dragging my chosen colors to the squares, but not creating my own palettes. Thanks for the helpful info.
The 64 million dollar question is:
Where is the custom palette stored and how can it be transferred to another computer?
Also how do you know what color space the swatches are in, othertahn labelligthem yourself and how do you get spot colors to stick and be usable in Pages?
You can bring in pdfs which have spot colors but no way of specifyingthem that I know of.
The Color Palette data is stored in your home folder under Library/Colors. I have not tried copying it to another computer or account, but that should work, I guess.
There is no support for any kind of spot colours as far as I know.
The internal colour format of the Color Palette is RGB, but I do not know if that is very important. If it applies to an object that is CMYK, the values will be converted anyhow.
This transfer totally worked
thanks so much
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Roberto Carreiro
Razor Creative Solutions
www.razor.ca
Can someone help me...
I have a client who wants the color palette set in the Keynote template I am sending him. Is this possible? To my understanding, the color palette doesn't transfer with Keynote, like PPT.
Do you have any idea of how I can get the color palette I created to show up on his computer? Or any work arounds?
Thanks so much!!
No the colour palette is not transferred with the template. You could try copy the files in Library/Colors as mentioned in the comments just above.
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