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Choose a color

Change the color of brushes. SketchBook comes with an assortment of default colors. But, if you can’t find what you want, create your own. Or, if a client has a set color palette, pick the colors and add them to your palette. With all these additions, if the palette is too large, hide what isn’t needed.

Picking a default color

1. Press your stylus over the color icon.

   Some default colors appear.

2. Flick the stylus toward the color you want, to change your brushstrokes to this color.

   The current color appears in the tool interface.

   NoteThe next time SketchBook opens, the color last selected becomes the active default color.

Creating your own color

1. Click the current color icon.

2. For PC users, the following Color Editor appears to pick colors.

   For Mac users, use the Colors Editor that appears to pick a new color.

   NoteThis window varies depending on your version of Mac OS X.

Colors tabs for the Mac

Lets you choose the hue and tints from a color wheel, and the value (light) from a slider.

Lets you specify a color by various color gradients, such as gray scale, RGB, CMYK, or HSB values.

Lets you choose from various lists of colors (Apple, Developer, Crayons, Web Safe), or create your own list of colors.

Lets you choose a color from a spectrum of hues and values.

Lets you pick from 48 colors displayed as a box of crayons.

Picking a color from the screen (for PC users)

1. Click the eyedropper in the color selector.
   NoteYou can also press and hold the Alt key to pick colors.

   The cursor changes to an eyedropper .

2. Click when the tip of the eyedropper is over the color you want to use. When you lift the stylus, the color appears in the swatch.
   NoteTo pick a color from other applications on the screen, hold down the Alt key and press the stylus inside the Autodesk SketchBook Pro window. Holding down the Alt key, drag outside the window until the eyedropper is over the color you want.

Picking a color from the screen (for Mac users)

1. Click the magnifying glass in the color selector.

   The cursor changes to a magnifying glass.

2. Click anywhere on the screen, with the bull’s-eye of the magnifying glass over the color you want to use. When you lift the stylus, the color appears in the swatch.
   NoteYou can also press and hold the Option key to pick colors. Use this key to pick a color from another application. Press the stylus inside the SketchBook window and drag the stylus outside the window until it is over the color you want.

Setting the RGB (for PC users)

In the Color Editor, there are three RGB fields that allow you to edit the individual RGB values.

1. Open the Color Editor.
2. Click the RGB fields and add numeric values. The color in the Color Wheel changes to display a color with those RGB values.

Creating a customized palette of colors

1. When creating a color to keep, drag the color chip from the swatch to a palette spots at the bottom of the Color Editor.

   For PC

   You can insert a color chip between two chips.

   For Mac

2. To change a particular color in the palette, drag another color over top of it.

Save a customized color palette

Any time while working, you can save a customized color palette by selecting File > Save. The next time SketchBook opens, the color palette appears.

Showing/hiding parts of the Color Editor

The top and bottom of the Color Editor have arrows for showing and hiding aspects of the editor.

- Click the arrow at the top to show/hide the color wheel.

- Click the arrow at the bottom to show/hide the color palette. If you click-drag the arrow up/down while the palette is open, you can determine the number of visible color chips.