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Color Handling 189

Replacing colors

Web Designer Premium makes it easy for you to recolor complex grouped objects such
as buttons, text panels, navigation bars etc, by listing the colors used and prompting you
to choose which one you want to replace.

The color replacement dialog lets you select which color to replace in the group.
Recolor an item in one of the following ways:

• Drag and drop a color from the color line onto the item.
• Select your item and then click a color on the color line.
• Select the item and then bring up the COLOR EDITOR (ON PAGE 184) (Ctrl+E).
The editor will display a list of the item's colors in the drop-down menu at the top of the
editor. Select the one you want to edit and then use the color editor as normal to edit it.

Note that when replacing colors in graphics this way, you can replace the use of named
colors with unnamed/local colors, or vice-versa. So for example you could take a button
that uses Theme Color 1 and replace Theme Color 1 with Theme Color 2. From then on,
editing Theme Color 2 in your document would change the button color too. Or replace
Theme Color 1 with a local color, so the button is no longer linked to any theme colors at
all. And you can use this facility to quickly apply named colors to graphics that were not
originally designed to use named colors at all.