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Working with colors



Color palettes

BW uses color palettes to assign colors to threads. A color palette is a set of 64 colors that you may change and adapt to your needs.


The project palette and the standard palette

Every weaving project has its own palette. When you save a project, its palette is also saved. Next time you open the project, its color palette will be loaded too. 

Besides project palettes, BW has a standard palette which is used to assign colors to new projects. 
Every time you open a new project, BW will copy the colors of the standard palette into the project palette and from this point on, every color change will affect only the project palette.


Editing the standard palette


You may wish to change the standard palette colors to reflect the colors you commonly use in your weaving projects. 
To do so, click menu Edit/Preferences and BW will open the Preferences dialog. 
Next, click the Standard color palette Edit button. BW will open the standard palette editor:



The standard palette editor

On the left side of the dialog there is an array of 8 by 8 colored squares (entries). This is the current standard palette. Each little square represents one of the 64 colors in the palette.
To change a color, just click one of the 64 entries to select it, then click the Change selected color... button. BW will open a little dialog to change the Red, Green and Blue (RGB) components of the selected color:


The RGB color dialog

Besides the RGB sliders, there is fourth slider that can be used to adjust the brightness or darkness of the color. Once you get the color you want, click OK to apply the changes.

After changing the colors click the OK button to close the standard palette editor and click the OK button of the Preferences editor to save the standard palette. From now on, every new project will start with the saved standard palette colors.


Editing the project palette


To change the colors of the project palette
- click menu Edit/Weaving colors... or
- double-click the active color rectangle, and BW will open the project palette editor:


The project palette editor

To change project palette colors, follow the same procedure described above on how to change standard palette colors.
Select a color square, change it, select another one, etc...

The differences are:

1) The last selected color becomes the active color.

2) If you don't like the changes, you can restore the standard palette colors clicking the Restore standard palette button. 
This will copy the standard palette colors into the project palette and change thread colors correspondingly (i.e. if a thread had the first color of the project palette now it will have the first color of the standard palette).

3) Besides changing colors and setting the active color, you may click the appropriate check boxes to color all warp, weft (or both) threads with the active color.



Assigning and changing thread colors


There are three operations you can do with threads colors:

1) Left-click a warp (or weft) thread cell

This moves the active color to the clicked cell.

2) Right-click a warp (or weft) thread cell

The color of the clicked cell becomes the active color.

3) Hold the Shift key pressed and Left-click a warp (or weft) thread cell

BW will open the following dialog:


Changing the color of multiple threads

This dialog will allow you to assign a new color to all warp (or weft) threads that have the same color of the clicked cell. Just click the palette to select the new color and click OK to apply the changes.







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