Color Palette

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The color palette displays a large choice of colors. Each square represents a color. These colors are used to draw out your design in the View Window. Color one can be thought of as needle one on the peripheral, but color palette does not control the peripheral. Colors are supplied to aid in visualizing what the final sew out will look like. Color one will sew out first, color two will sew out second, and so on. Every color is editable. To edit the colors, you can right-click anywhere on the color palette. Once you right-click a color menu will appear with several features. The first feature is that you can hide the color that you right-clicked on. The second feature is that you can show the color if it is already hidden. If a color is hidden it will have an X on top of it. You can also simply left-click on a color to show or hide it. An X on top of the color symbolizes that it is hidden. No X on top of the color symbolizes that the color is not hidden. From the color menu, you can also hide all of the colors in the design.

If you have the Palette Bar selected, the color palette works like the rest of the toolbars in giving you the option of dragging and dropping (moving) the toolbar buttons (color boxes in the case of the color palette). To do this, press the Alt key and left-click on a color (once selected you may let go of the Alt key), drag the color to the desired place on the bar and let go of the left mouse button. If you drag the selected toolbar button (color box) outside of the toolbar (color palette) area, it is deleted.

If you have saved Custom Color Palettes, you may right click on the color palette, then click Load Custom Color Palette. Refer to Color Properties for information on how to save Custom Color Palettes.

The final feature of the color menu is Properties. This brings up the Color Properties tab. Click on the following for more information on Color Properties.