Selecting RGB colors

Several tools...

Fill

Filled Line

Change Fill

Modify Filled Line

Modify Color (RGB)

You can set any color in the Select RGB Color dialog box. Colors are selected based on the Red, Green and Blue color spectrum. The color currently set is displayed in the color panel.

Note: When you click Expand >> near the bottom of the Select RGB Color dialog box, you can define fills with gradients.

Color file

Color system

Select the color system.

Color file

Select a color palette (color file) in the selected color system. You can also delete color palettes or create new ones here.

Color name

Choose a color in the selected color palette. You can also use this option to delete colors from the palette.
If the current RGB setting matches a color entry in the selected palette, the name of the entry is displayed here.

New entry

Use this option to enter and name a new color in the palette. This option is only available when ‘Color system’ is set to Custom RGB Palettes.

Show palette only

Enable this option when only the selected color palette is to be displayed and not the entire Select RGB Color dialog box.

Color overview box

You can select a color by clicking in the color overview box.

Slide control

RGB slide controls

You can make a color here using the RGB slide controls.
Click in a data entry box to enter the RGB values as numerical values (0-255) at the keyboard.

CSB slide controls

You can define a color here using the slide controls for color, saturation and brightness.
Click in the respective data entry box to enter the CSB values as numerical values (0-255) at the keyboard.

Whereas the RGB color model is device-oriented, the CSB color model is user-oriented.

• Color represents the angle in the color circle (e.g., 0° = red, 120° = green, 240° = blue).
• Saturation defines the position of a color along the color spectrum (e.g., 0% = neutral gray, 50% = reduced saturation, 100% = saturated, pure color).
• Brightness defines the brightness (luminosity) of a color on a scale from black to white (0% = no brightness, 100% = full brightness).

CSB values are converted to RGB values using fixed algorithms.

Expand >> (not with filled line)

When you click Expand >> near the bottom of the Select RGB Color dialog box, you can define fills with gradients.

Match parameters

Use this to adopt the color from an existing fill or filled line. The program adopts the original RGB values even when fills in drawing files open in reference mode are displayed in a brightened color or in the case of fills with gradients.

Match a pixel's RGB color information

Use this to adopt a color from a bitmap.