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# Using the Colour Palette

The colour palette appears in the Paint, Graphics, and CutOut menus. It contains the scratch pad and colour gradient. A series of colours are stored in the colour palette in colour pots. To select the current colour in the colour palette, click a colour pot. To set the current colour, press and hold a colour pot.

(a) Colour pot(b) Colour gradient bar

Build your own colour palette by storing the current colour in the colour pots. You can also save and load colour palettes.

To store a colour in the colour palette:

1. To display the colour palette, swipe the bar at the bottom of the screen.

   The colour palette appears.

   TipIf you do not see the palette, click the Palette button. To hide it, swipe the bar a second time.
2. Set the current colour.
3. Click a colour pot in the colour palette and hold the cursor down momentarily.

   The colour is saved in the colour pots.

Using the Scratch Pad

Use the scratch pad to mix colours selected from the image or colour pots and to test the selected brush type. You can also paste cutouts into the scratch pad to use when mixing colours.

(a) Scratch pad

To mix colours on the scratch pad:

1. Click the Pot button.

   The scratch pad appears.

2. Paint on the scratch pad.
3. Change the current colour and paint over the previous brush strokes.

   The colours are mixed.

You can also use the Wash, Shade, Smear, Drag, Warp, Impressionist, Recursive Clone, Stamp, and Blur Special Effects media in the scratch pad.

To use one of the media types in the scratch pad:

1. Select the Special Effects medium you want to use.
2. Enable Medium.
3. Use the brush cursor to apply the medium in the scratch pad.

To set the current colour using the scratch pad:

1. Click the Current Colour pot.
2. Use the colour picker to select the mixed colour in the scratch pad.
3. Click the Current Colour pot to use the selected colour.

Using the Colour Gradient Bar

The colour gradient bar is used to set the gradients for graphics you create in the Graphics menu. You can also set the current colour by selecting a colour on the gradient using the colour picker.

To set the gradient:

1. Set the current colour.
2. Click either the upper or lower colour pot on the gradient bar.
   NoteYou must hold the cursor down for a moment to set the Gradient colour pot.

To set the current colour using the colour gradient bar:

1. Click and drag the cursor across the gradient bar.

   The selected colour appears in the Current Colour pot.

2. Select a colour.

   The selected colour becomes the current colour.