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Old 11 November 2008, 08:12 PM
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Lightbulb Colours

Not sure if anyone is interested, but realising the benefits of linked colours, I have created a large colour palette that may be useful.

There are the following colours:

26 standard colours named `A to `Z - unlinked

White to Black (named 0 and 1) linked with 19 tints and shades

Standard 494 colour palette comprising 26 named colours (A to Z) linked to 19 tints and shades in 5% increments.

To make to colour tones continuous colour "X"0 (where X is any letter) the 50% tone is the same as the base colour.

Also since these are linked, they can be adjusted which will mean that the whole palette is active - at the end of the drawing all the palette may be completely different, but it gives a good start.

The unlinked colours are the same as the starting palette, and can be used to reset the appropriate colours if necessary.

As this may seem confusing, I have left the original colour designs on screen. Obviously they can be deleted as they are all in the colour gallery and on the colour bar.

I'm not sure if anyone has any use for this, but it's something I've been meaning to set up for a while.

Let me know what you think.
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Old 11 November 2008, 08:16 PM
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thanks Keith - I think that will be useful
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Old 11 November 2008, 08:20 PM
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Keith, I think very cool - thanks. Now set as my default template.
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Old 11 November 2008, 09:58 PM
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Keith, This is awesome! Thank you. this will come in handy for something I am working on.
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Old 11 November 2008, 10:29 PM
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Thanks for sharing this, Keith. My default template from now on.
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Old 11 November 2008, 11:50 PM
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Very nice and very useful. Thanks for shating it!
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..Thanks for shating it!
How rude (I realise it's a typo A funny one too!)
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Old 12 November 2008, 01:33 PM
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I'm sure most of you are aware of this, but I only realised it recently, so I'm sure it will be a revelation to someone, somewhere.

TIP - The named colours for every drawing that is open are shown in the colour gallery. So if you have three drawings that use different palettes open, all three palettes are shown in the colour gallery for all drawings, and can be used in each drawing independently.
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Old 12 November 2008, 03:46 PM
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Thanks Keith! I also made it my default template.
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Very nice Keith! Thanks!
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