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Creating A Custom Color Palette

From the Resources menu select the Color Palette Editor command. The Color Palette Editor shows a scrollable list of all the currently defined color palettes as well as a blank palette for creating new color schemes.

Follow these steps to create a new color palette:

1) Click a swatch to select it. Click the Pick... button to display the color picker dialog:

2) Click another swatch to define a range and select and end color for the range. Click the Blend button to blend the colors between the starting colors and the end colors:

3) Save your new palette to disk using by clicking the Save... button.

4) You can also edit existing palettes by click their name in the scrolling list: