Editing and Managing Solid Colors

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Adding and Editing Colors

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Manual Methods

From the Color Picker

The little eyedropper on the toolbar activates the color picker, after which clicking on some spot on the screen grabs its color. You can expect to be presented with a dialog asking for a name for this color. If you don't name it, the color will not be added, even if you click OK

New Color

Here again is our Colors dialog we saw in the last article (brought up with Edit > Colors). Click tne New button, and you then see the Edit Color dialog. Give it a unique name, then use the sliders to adjust the hue and saturation. You can also click somewhere in the rainbow area for a quick approximation of what you're looking to achieve. Click OK to add this new color to your palette. Keep in mind that using this method, your palette will only apply to this document – having said this, below we'll see how to import a palette from a saved file.

You have 3 Color Models to choose from: RGB, CMYK, and Web Safe RGB. This last choice limits the values to those which will display the same on 8-bit and 16-bit color systems.

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Borrowing a Color from another Palette

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If you click the button in the upper right of the Edit Color dialog, an extremely long list of choices appears, consisting of all the color sets available in Scribus. Now click one of these colors and its name and RGB/CMYK values are your new color. Many of the color sets contain proprietary spot colors.

Duplicate

In the Colors dialog above, click a color you wish to modify. This will of course bring up Edit Color, but click Cancel, so that you can go back and click Duplicate. Now your color name will show as Copy of ... and you can edit in the various ways we have shown and change the name.

Getting Rid of Colors

You can do this individually, by highlighting a color then clicking Delete, or you might consider reducing the number of colors on the list by clicking Remove Unused, which deletes any colors you have not actually used in your document.

Automatic and Semi-automatic Methods

From another document

If you begin with a previously saved document, you will use its color set. If you extrapolate from this fact, then you might choose to open a document, delete its content, and File Save As under a new name.

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In this example, following import of an SVG, we take a look at the Colors dialog (Edit > Colors), so that we can point out some particulars.

We started out with the Scribus Basic color set, then imported an SVG, which has added these colors which begin with FromSVG. Scribus does not ask you for your Ok to do this – for one thing, consider the job this would create for a many-colored graphic.

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In case you only want to import the colors from a vector file (EPS and variants, PS), or from suitable palette files [AI (Adobe Illustrator) GPL (Gimp color palettes), SOC (OpenDocument color palettes), or a suitably formatted Scribus XML description], this would also bean option by selecting Import in the Colors dialog.

Notice the many blacks we have here, yet each is unique. Our newly added black, FromSVG#000000, is an RGB black, all the others are CMYK blacks. If you hover your mouse cursor over each one, you will see the differences.

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	C%	M%	Y%	K%
Warm Black	0	60	30	100

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Let's go a bit further here and edit a color. Either left-click or right-click on a color, and you bring up this dialog. In this particular case, you might just want to change the color name to something more meaningful. On the other hand, there is useful information in this name, considering that the hex value ‘80’ corresponds to decimal ‘128’.

You have 3 color models to choose from: RGB, CMYK, and Web Safe RGB. This last choice limits the values to those which will display the same on 8-bit and 16-bit systems.

The last thing we will mention here is the sliders to the right of the dialog for changing RGB or CMYK values. You can also click on the rainbow display, then make fine adjustments with the sliders. As you make changes, the color in the box labeled New adjusts. Click OK to switch, or Cancel to stay with the Old

From the Color Picker

Manual Methods

New Color

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Here again is our Colors dialog. This time, click tne New button.

Click the button in the upper right of the Edit Color dialog, and an extremely long list of choices appears, consisting of all the color sets available in Scribus. Now click one of these colors and its name and RGB/CMYK values are your new color. Many of the color sets contain proprietary spot colors.

Duplicate

Getting Rid of Colors

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Editing and Managing Solid Colors (1)

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Please note that this chapter is not about color management, but about the editing and managing of color fills. Color management is described in a separate chapter.

Color Palettes

Please note that this chapter is not about color management, but about the editing and managing of color fills. Color management is described in a separate chapter.

Within Scribus there are several methods to create, import and edit solid colors and color sets. Moreover, Scribus has a well developed tool, the Color Wheel plug-in, which helps with creating color harmonies and even testing them for people with color blindness.

Why Color Sets?

The answer to the question in the headline is closely related to the answer to a more basic question, namely: “What is a color?” The truth is, there is no simple answer to that question, as a “color” can be described in hundreds of ways, for example as a combination of wavelengths, a combination of color values within a certain “color model”, as a category in a framework based on aesthetical rules etc. As a result, many different so-called “color models” have been developed over the course of time, many of which have become part of a discipline called “color science,” a science that is itself a “meta-science,” as it requires input from many different disciplines, including physics, neuro-science, biology, mathematics, engineering, and even art, artisanry or literature. “Color” is actually one of a few cases, in which artists like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Albert Henry Munsell contributed significantly to scientific progress.

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Editing Colors and Color Palettes

When you create and save a new document, all the colors that are availabe in the dialog Edit > Colors will be stored in that document. This is an important detail, because any changes to a color palette will only affect the current document. The selection or creation of a new default palette will be described in the next section.

If you choose Edit > Colors from the menu bar for the first time and with a new document open, Scribus will bring up the following dialog:

To the left you see the list of colors in the selected default color set, which is the palette “Scribus Basic”. The list view contains a preview of every color, a color model indicator, indicators for special colors (spot, registration), and finally the name of the color. If color management is active, you may also see a warning sign between the color preview and the color model icon, indicating that a color is out of gamut.

To the right you see various editing options for your color palette, starting with the “Import” button at the top. Clicking on it brings up a file dialog, where you can select various sources for colors. These sources can either be existing Scribus files or color palettes in one of the following formats: Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), PostScript (PS), Adobe Illustrator (AI), OpenDocument Color Palettes (SOC) or GIMP Color Palettes (GPL). Note that importing a color palette does not replace the existing colors. Instead, the colors will be added to the existing palette:

You can also create a new color yourself and add it to the existing palette by clicking on the “New” button. This will bring up the color editor:

Here you can insert a name for the new color and select a color model (CMYK, RGB and web-safe RGB, the latter being almost irrelevant today, even if you are creating a PDF for the world-wide web). In the lower right section you see three or four (depending on the selected color model) color sliders to modify the color values. Of course you can also insert numerical color values directly. At the top of the dialog you see a so-called “HSV Color Map,” which allows for creating a color by clicking somewhere on the colored field. “HSV” is an abbreviation for “Hue, Saturation, Value”, which is another way to describe colors in the RGB color model. If you click on the drop-down list, you will see that you can also select a color from one of the installed color palettes.

To use the “Edit” and “Duplicate” options you have to select a color from the list. The dialog that will appear is identical to the one for new colors.

Deleting a color from the list can be risky, since the color may have already been applied to an item or text in a document. Thus, Scribus will always ask for a replacement color, a mechanism that’s similar to Edit > Replace Colors, which is described in the section on importing vector drawings:

The final editing option is called “Remove Unused,” which is also described in the vector import section.

If you click “OK”, the changes to the color list will be saved in your Scribus document, while clicking “Cancel” will leave the list untouched.

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Editing and Managing Solid Colors (2)

Managing Color Sets

Changing the Default Color Palette

To change the default color palette, make sure that no Scribus document is open. Then open the Color Manager (Edit > Colors):

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If the folder locked doesn’t exist, you have to create it.

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Editing Colors

This is a brief introduction and orientation to the Colors dialog, which you activate by selecting Edit > Colors from the menu. Note that this has two modes. The one you may already be familiar with is its use when you already have a document open, and this will be discussed in this section. When you create and save a new document, all the colors that are availabe in the dialog Edit > Colors will be stored in that document. This is an important detail, because any changes to a color palette will only affect the current document.

The other mode for Edit > Colors is when you have no document open. In that situation, you can change your default palette or create a new one. The selection or creation of a new default palette will be described in Managing Colors, under the section Color Palettes.

If you choose Edit > Colors from the menu for the first time with a document open, Scribus will bring up the following dialog:

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On the left side of this dialog you see the list of colors in the selected default color set, which is the palette “Scribus Basic”. The list view contains a preview of every color, a color model indicator, indicators for special colors (spot, registration), and finally the name of the color. If color management is active, you may also see a warning sign between the color preview and the color model icon, indicating that a color is out of gamut.

On the right side of the dialog you see various editing options for your color palette, starting with the Import button at the top. Clicking on it brings up a file dialog, where you can select various sources for colors. These sources can either be existing Scribus files or color palettes in one of the following formats (see the file extensions below): Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), PostScript (PS), Adobe Illustrator (AI), OpenDocument Color Palettes (SOC) or GIMP Color Palettes (GPL). Note that importing a color palette does not replace the existing colors. Instead, the colors will be added to the existing palette.

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