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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.

Web Designer Premium 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.
Using Theme colors
It’s always good design practice to limit the number of different colors within a document.
But the use of shades of your predominant color is to be encouraged. To help make the