Choose Color dialog box

 

Basic Colors

Displays the basic colors available. You can define a custom color by clicking the closest basic color and then defining a custom color by using the color matrix.

 

Custom Colors

Displays any custom colors you have already defined. To change a custom color, click it, and then click Define Custom Colors. When you have completed your changes, click Add to Custom Colors. To define a new custom color, click an empty custom color box, and then click Define Custom Colors. Define the new color, and then click Add to Custom Colors.

 

Define Custom Colors

Click to display the color matrix where you can define custom colors. To define a custom color, click the color in the color matrix, and then click Add to Custom Colors. You can also define a custom color by entering values for hue, saturation, and luminosity, or red, green, and blue, and then clicking Add to Custom Colors.

 

Color Matrix

Displays a color matrix. To define a custom color, click anywhere in the matrix. To further define your custom colors, you can change the hue, saturation (Sat), luminosity (Lum), and the amount of red, green, and blue for each color by moving the pointer on the matrix, or by typing the numerical values. Change hue by moving the pointer horizontally; change saturation by moving the pointer vertically. Use the slider at the right of the matrix to adjust luminosity.

 

Slider

Drag the slider to change the luminosity, or relative lightness or darkness, of a color. The corresponding numerical value appears in the Lum box.

 

Color|Solid

Displays the color selected in the color matrix or specified in the Custom colors boxes. If your monitor is set to display 256 colors, the Color|Solid box might show two colors. The right side shows how the selected color appears as a solid color (that is, which of the available 256 colors the selected color maps to). The left side shows the "dithered" color, which is the approximation of the specified color using two of the available 256 colors.

 

Hue

Specifies the hue of a color. If you change the hue, the values for red, green, and blue change to match. Values range from 0 to 239.

 

Sat

Specifies the saturation of a color. Saturation is the strength or purity of color in a specified hue, up to a maximum of 240. The higher the saturation, the purer the color.

 

Lum

Specifies the luminosity of a color. Luminosity is the lightness or darkness in a color, specified by a value between 0 (black) and 240 (white). If the Sat (saturation) value is 0, the Lum value specifies a shade of gray.

 

Red

Specifies the amount of red in a color. You can use a combination of red, green, and blue to define any color.

 

Green

Specifies the amount of green in a color. You can use a combination of red, green, and blue to define any color.

 

Blue

Specifies the amount of blue in a color. You can use a combination of red, green, and blue to define any color.

 

Add to Custom Colors

Adds the custom color you have defined to the Custom colors set.

 

OK

Click this button to close the dialog box and save any changes you have made.

 

Cancel

Click this button to close the dialog box without saving any changes you have made.