Page 418 - Xara Designer Pro X17

418 The Photo Tools

Simply select the photo you want to use to set the document colors, then click the icon
on the PHOTO TOOL flyout bar.

The pages below have been designed to use the standard Xara theme colors that work
with the PALETTE FROM PHOTO feature. Each of the 3 versions of the page has had the
photo changed and then PALETTE FROM PHOTO invoked to update the document’s colors
to match those of the photo. In all other respects these 3 designs are identical.

Designer Pro instantly analyzes the photo and chooses up to 5 of the most predominant,
but independent colors (very similar shades of the same color are considered as a single
color). It uses these to set the values of the named colors THEME COLOR 1 to THEME
COLOR 5. If these colors are already in your document, as they probably will be if you
used a Xara template, they are updated. Otherwise they are added and you will see them
appear at the bottom left of your color line.

If the graphical objects that make up your document don’t use these standard Xara
theme colors, then you won’t see those objects change color. So make sure your
document uses the standard theme colors, and shades of those colors, to make your
document easy to re-color. When there are limited numbers of significant colors in the
image, the program uses shades of gray for the lower theme colors.

The 5 theme colors for each of the 3 examples above - together with their lighter and darker
linked colors.