Color Library Manager

The Color Library Manager provides advanced management of the colors in the current color library, making the Color Collection more flexible and professional.

In the Color Library Manager, you can complete the following tasks:

  • New Color Swatch to build a Color Collection that meets the needs of practical applications.
  • Extract Color from Picture
  • Delete Color Swatch
  • Import/Export Color Library.

Add/Delete Color Swatch.

Swatch List lists all swatches in the current color library. You can add a new swatch through the New Color Swatch button on the toolbar.

Select a swatch in the Swatch List, and all swatches of the swatch will be displayed in the Current Swatch area. You can use the Delete Color Swatch button on the toolbar to delete the currently selected swatch.

Color library operation

  • Modify swatch name: The newly added swatch uses the default name. Select a swatch in the Swatch List and double-click the swatch name to modify the swatch name.
  • The Import Color Library button on the Import Color Library: toolbar allows you to load a swatch file (*.xml file) so that the content of the current swatch is displayed as the swatch saved in the file, that is, the original swatch before import is reset to the swatch in the file.
  • The Export Current Color Library button on the Export Current Color Library: toolbar can export the corresponding swatch as a *.xml file, which records the color information of the swatch.
  • The New Color Block button on the New Color Block: toolbar can append a new color block at the end of the current color library. The color is the current color of the right palette by default. You can set a new color for the newly added color block on the palette by selecting it. Up to 154 color blocks can be added to a color library in

    order to fully display all color blocks when a swatch is loaded in the Color Selector.

  • Modify the color of the color block: Click the mouse to select the color block to be modified, and then select a new color on the palette on the right. You can also set the color value through the value below the palette.
  • The Delete Color Block button on the Delete Color Block: toolbar can delete the corresponding color block. Click the button to delete the selected color block.
  • Delete Repetitive Color Blocks: Click the Delete Repetitive Color Blocks button on the toolbar to Delete Color Block the color blocks of the repeated colors in the list.
  • Color block sorting: Click the Sort Color Blocks button on the toolbar to sort the color blocks in the color block list based on the RGB value.

Extract Color from Picture

In the Color Library Manager, you can extract all the colors in a picture from an existing Picture File and import them into the current color library as colors in a new swatch.

Select the Picture File to Pick Color in the Open dialog box through the Picture Collection Color button in the toolbar. The Picture File can be any format of *.png, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.bmp. Select Picture File and click the Open button to pop up the Color Settings dialog to set the parameter information used in the extraction process; After Parameter Settings, click OK to create a new swatch in the current color library (the name of the swatch is the file name of the Picture File by default), and the color blocks in the swatch are the colors extracted from the Picture File.

Parameter Description for Color Settings dialog:

  • Picture: When the picture used for Pick Color is an ordinary picture, this item can be checked, and the color in the picture will be extracted by the default tolerance in the extraction result. The tolerance includes: the similarity between the extracted colors, that is, two colors within the tolerance range will be regarded as the same color to be extracted in the result; If the range of the extracted color in the picture is less than tolerance value, the color is not extracted.
  • Swatch Screenshot: Some Picture processing software may come with some swatches. In order to import these swatches, you can use these Swatch Screenshots, and then use the function of Pick Color from the picture provided here. Pick up the color in the color plate. If the picture picked by the Color is a Swatch Screenshot, you need to check this item.
  • Custom. If the user needs to customize the tolerance of the Pick Color, this item needs to be checked. At this time, the parameter edit box below is available to set the tolerance of the Pick Color: Similar Color Tolerance-Specify the tolerance of the RGB value of the Pick Color. If the RGB values of the two colors are within the tolerance range, they are considered to be one color. Pick only once when picking; Minimum sampling range-The percentage of the range of the extracted color in the picture. If it is less than specified tolerance value, the color will not be extracted.

Import/Export Color Library

Currently, the Color Library Manager can only load and manage one color library. The color library contains several color plates. Color plates realize the classification management of colors. Color plates contain a series of colors; The color library file can be used to save the current color library in the Color Library Manager as an external file, that is, to save all the current color plates and their color contents, including the current color plate and the distribution structure and status of the color, so as to facilitate subsequent loading and use.

  • Import Color Library: From the Import Color Library button in the toolbar, Import Color Library (*.xml).
  • Export Color Library: With the Export Color Library button in the toolbar, you can export the currently managed color library as a *.xml file, which records all the current swatches, the color contents in the swatches, the arrangement order, and other information. After the *.xml is imported subsequently, it can be restored to the state of the swatch at the time of saving.

Arrange the colors in a swatch

Click the color block whose order is to be adjusted in the color palette, hold down the left mouse button at the same time, drag it to the target position, and then release the left mouse button to move the selected color to the position, which is actually to exchange the positions of the two color blocks.

About Working With Palette Area

The palette area mainly provides a place for the user to customize the color. The area below the palette provides four color modes of RGB, CMYK, HSB and LAB. The user can select the required color mode and switch the color mode through the corresponding four buttons (RGB, CMYK, HSB and LAB). Here, you can adjust the color by numerical value; you can also get the color by Pick Color. Click the Pick Color button to switch the current mouse status to Pick Color, and then move the mouse anywhere on the screen to pick the color of the current mouse position.