Setting Up Custom Palette Tip

[hseiken]

I was getting annoyed working with colors on my current project with trying to set up a palette. I'm not especially good at such things and needing a way to change things like gradients quickly is useful for me. In my pixel-art software, you can pick two colors and have the program 'fill in' the transitions. Xara doesn't have anything like that, at least contextually to the palette. Then I remembered the Blend Tool! So I set up the amount of colors I wanted to use for my palette's gradient and then I could easily adjust the colors and test them out quickly by selecting them and using the eye dropper.

I've included a screenshot to somewhat illustrate it. And depending on your needs, using a multi-blend allows shifting hue through the gradient as well. I think some folks who end up fiddling with colors a lot may find this tip useful.