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Color Handling 203

Make Named Color local to Frame/Layer
When you click this button, a new named color is created which is identical to
the one you have selected.
This new color is then applied to all objects in the current frame or layer that use the
selected named color. This means that with one click you can localize a color to the
frame/layer. You can then independently edit the original color and this localized color.

This feature is useful when you are creating animations and you want an object's color to
change part way through the animation.

This button is dimmed unless you are editing a named color that is also used in another
frame or layer.

Normal colors, Tints, Shades and Linked colors

Normal colors
These are the normal stand-alone colors you apply to objects.

Xara Designer Pro X can also define colors that are linked to another color, that is when
the parent color changes the linked color will change as well. There are three ways you
can link a color to its parent TINTS, SHADES, and LINKED COLORS. These are very powerful
techniques that allow, for example, single-click re-coloring of complex shaded drawings.
Some of the example clipart uses this technique.

Tints
Tints are based on other colors (called the parent color) and are always a paler version
of the parent. They have two main uses:

• Where you have paler shades of a parent color and you may want to change the
parent color in future with the tints automatically updating.
• To extend the range of colors available from printing inks.

For example, a 25% red tint gives a pink color. Therefore using just a red ink you can
have both a pure red and a pink using only one ink. Similarly, if just using black-and-
white printing, it’s often useful to be able to use tints to create various shades of gray.

If you are printing with a limited range of colors (it’s usually cheaper to print one or two
color, instead of full or four color printing).

A tint can be based on any type of color, including another tint.
Any changes you make to the parent color also change tints based on it. For example,
you might define the color pink as 50% of a red parent color. Changing the parent color
to orange automatically changes pink to light orange.