2016 - 2017 new feature requests

[Ron Duke]

Here are two pictorial examples of what I'm talking about. One is a car I drew in 2016, the other is the same car, but updated to the year model 2017. Notice the colors are different, just for the purpose of illustrating what I run into when importing two different xara file into ONE new xara file. In order not to have the color gallery become a morass of confused colors or DUPLICATE colors, I've named each cars color scheme specifically to that car. By doing this, when editing colors in the NEW xara file which includes both cars, the confusion of editing colors on either or both of the cars is now removed due to the fact that the named colors are specific to each individual car.

I use the cars as an example, but I use this process of named colors, NOT just for cars, but for many other objects, including: people, animals, stone work, brick work, and the list goes on and on.

It may sound labor intensive, and it is to an extent, but in the long run it saves me an immense amount of time, as I can change colors, shades of any item in a complex drawing without having to weed my way through the many layers, groups, clipviews and items, such as cars, to make adjustments to various aspects of the drawing.

I hope this isn't too complex to understand, but it would provide a HUGE amount of help to me if I could be able to rename a "named color" and at the same time have ALL of its shades renamed at the same time. This would eliminate much work and confusion. ALSO, to keep things organized in the "Color Gallery" for quick reference, having the shades of a named color all automatically named [the named color plus 01, 02, 03, etc.] would allow me to sort the color gallery and keep the named colors and their shades TOGETHER, allowing me to quickly identify a specific shade within the drawing that I want to alter.

Anyway, maybe I get too involved in my drawings, they are quite detailed, and sometimes a little change in color or shading of just a small part of the picture can make a BIG difference.

Thanks for reading...