Background and Pasteboard question

[WayToWalk]

In Xara Web Designer 10 Premium there is a web template called Candy Floss. I and trying to figure out how they did the background/pasteboard colors. I know how to edit the colors but I want to make one from scratch and can not figure it out. Anyone know how to do that?

[WayToWalk]

another way of asking would also be how to have multiple colors on the pasteboard. Example: header area one color going all the way across forever, body area one color all the way across forever, footer area one color all the way across forever.

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

You can drag and drop any color from the screen palette or the Color Editor onto the Pasteboard and or Page.

You could create a long narrow bitmap with areas of color that you want for a banner page and footer area. Then select the bitmap in the Bitmap Gallery and select Set Pasteboard Background.

In the attached example I added a lighter version of the background pattern for a banner and footer.

[WayToWalk]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

You can drag and drop any color from the screen palette or the Color Editor onto the Pasteboard and or Page.

You could create a long narrow bitmap with areas of color that you want for a banner page and footer area. Then select the bitmap in the Bitmap Gallery and select Set Pasteboard Background.

In the attached example I added a lighter version of the background pattern for a banner and footer.

THANK YOU for the reply. I am looking to find out how to have multiple pasteboard colors. The WD 10 theme called Candy Floss is a perfect example. It has like 6 different colors and you can change pasteboard colors. Any idea?

[WayToWalk]

I figured out how to edit multiple pasteboard colors!! Thank you for the reply!!!

[Acorn]

I'll stop explaining at this point.
To help others, why not explain what you've discovered?
Acorn

[WayToWalk]

No Problem. Hope this helps others too!!!

1) Create multi colored strips with Rectangle Tool and cut it to the clipboard (ctrl+X).
2) Unlock the Pasteboard background from the Page & Layer gallery.
3) Paste (ctrl+V) it on the pasteboard and align it to the page.
4) Right-click each strip and choose Fill Browser Width.
5) Lock Pasteboard background.

Create your content as normal on the MouseOff layer.

(Credit for this goes to Steve from Xara Users)

[Acorn]

Thank you for advising us all.

There are a few additional points that are useful.
If you deconstruct the Candy Floss template and unlock the Pasteboard you will find the rectangle are centrally placed and have a very large negative x co-ordinate.

If you drop a colour onto the Pasteboard and then apply a linear Fill aligned vertically, you can double-click along the line and add any number of control points, each can have a colour applied.

The presentation is different but the final file size is much smaller.

The final technique is a reverse of the above in that you create a long thin pixel-exact image and drop that onto the unlocked Pasteboard and then right-click and set it as the Pasteboard background.

for all these approaches you can then select the background to be fixed, instead of scrolling.

Acorn