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180 Color Handling

Color Handling

Xara Web Designer Premium gives wide control over applying, creating and altering the
colors of objects. For simple documents, you can just choose colors from the on-screen
color palette, the Color Line. More advanced color operations are described later.

The color line

The Color Line is displayed at the bottom of the window. It shows you the current fill and
line colors, provides access to the color editor and provides a palette of pre-defined
colors including a special "no color".

COLOR SWATCH: The outer rectangle of the color swatch shows the line color and
the center rectangle shows the fill color. These are the colors of any selected
objects, or the current color attributes if no objects are selected.
This button provides access to the color editor (on page 184)
COLOR PICKER: Use the eye-dropper to pick a color from any part of the document
or any part of the computer screen. See Using the eye-dropper to pick colors (on
page 185) for details.
NO COLOR: Clicking this applies a "no color fill". Shift-clicking applies "no color" to a
line. Note that this is not the same as 100% transparent. "No color" and
transparency are different. A shape with transparency applied remains a solid
shape whereas a shape filled with "no color" is effectively hollow. The NO COLOR
button can also be used to restore the original colors to a photo which has had a
contone color applied.
Current Fill color marker
Current Line color marker

If the length of the Color Line exceeds the window, you can scroll through the Color Line
with the scroll bar below or by "Alt + dragging" the Color Line.

Xara Web Designer Premium provides several options for the displayed size of the Color
Line (described in Customizing Web Designer Premium).

Colors on the color line