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1 The currently selected color displays in • Click the Add to Custom Colors button
the rectangle at the lower center of the to add the selected color to the Custom
dialog. There are a number of ways to select Colors group.
a color in this dialog:
6 Click the Color Chooser Eyedropper,
2 Click in any one of the Basic colors then click anywhere on your monitor to
boxes to select it. select the color displaying at that location.
3 Click anywhere in the color spectrum
area to select a color. You can select a color from any program
window. Before opening the Color
• The location of the selected color is iden- Chooser dialog, make sure the desired color
tified by a crosshairs. can be seen on screen.
• Click anywhere in the vertical bar or drag
the arrow to adjust the selected color’s • Click Create Material to add the color to
Luminosity and RGB values. the User Catalog in the library. The new
material’s name is “Custom Color” fol-
4 Define the color by specifying its Hue, lowed by its RGB values. Only available
Saturation, and Luminosity (HSL) or when the dialog was opened by selecting
its Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) values.
Tools> Color Chooser .
5 Click in one of the Custom colors If the Select Color dialog was opened via
boxes to either select it or to specify it
as the box for a new custom color to be another dialog panel, click OK to apply the
currently selected color to the object’s line or
defined.
fill style, or to the material’s pattern color.

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