Color Picker

The Color Picker dialog appears when creating a color in the formatting dialogs of certain elements, for example border colors in boxes and paragraphs. For information about how to define and apply colors and how to keep them consistent in different output channels, see Colors.

The dialog consists of two main parts. On the left is the color wheel that can be used to select a color hue by clicking anywhere on that wheel. To the right of the color wheel there is a vertical bar used to select the color saturation. At the top-right, two colors are shown: the New box displays the currently selected color, while the Original shows the color currently attributed to the element.

The rest of the dialog has various options for choosing colors:

• Color Mode: Use the drop-down to select whether the color is set as RGB, CMYK or HEX. The color mode determines how the color is saved in the formatting properties, and how they are printed or outputted; see Colors.

• RGB group: Enter the Red, Green and Blue color values from 0 to 255.

• HEX: Enter a valid HTML Hex Color.

• The eye dropper lets you select a color from anywhere on your desktop. To open it, click the eye dropper button next to the HEX color field.

• CMYK group (suitable for Print output only): Enter the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black color values from 0 to 100 percent.