Color Gallery Overview

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The Color Gallery gives you full control over all the named colors
in all the documents currently loaded. Local colors
only exist on individual objects and are not shown in the Color Gallery. For information about colors in Xara LX, see the Colors Overview.

The Color Line displays the named colors in a document in the same order as the Color Gallery, so moving colors in the gallery also moves them on the Color Line. The named colors on both can also be reordered either manually or using a specific sort - see Reordering items in a gallery. The list of named colors can also be searched (see Searching a gallery).

When a named color is not currently used in a document, it has 'Not in use' shown next to it if the Full Information display option (see Changing the way galleries look) has been chosen. In the same way, shade colors have "Shade of XX" written next to them where XX is the name of the parent color.

Apply Applying a named color to objects

New Creating a new named color

Delete Deleting a named color

Options Color Gallery options

Redefine Redefine a named color from an object

Edit Change a named color

Name Change the name of a color

Background Change the page background color

Web Browser Colors

In the Color Gallery is a library of 216 colors designed for use on the Internet - the browser palette
. You can't change the colors in this section. To use them, just drag them into the gallery section for your document or apply them to objects in your document. If you just use the Web Browser colors, your images will not be dithered
when they are displayed on the screen by a web browser and so the images will appear very sharp. If you overlay transparent objects, you are creating new colors, so the image may be dithered.

If you have colored an object using the Color Editor, you can set its color to the nearest web browser color by selecting the object and clicking the Limit to Web Browser Palette button in the Color Editor.

For details on adding your own color libraries to the Color Gallery, see Importing colors and palettes.

Spot Colors

Spot colors
are displayed in the Color Gallery as circles. Other colors are displayed as squares.

Color Gallery Menu

You can right-click on the Color Gallery to open a pop-up menu.

Display Options

Full information (color swatch, name and 'Not in use')

Name (color swatch and name only)

Icons only (color swatch only)

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Related Topics

Color Line

Color Editor

Importing colors

Coloring objects

Named colors