Palettes

Palettes of color

You can create palettes of color to facilitate color selection. A palette is a reference to a specific color and can be used on all color-changing fixtures and scrollers.

Creating palettes

Creating a Palette shortcut is helpful if you want to save your favourite CMY color mixes for later use.

Note: You can create palettes in DESIGN mode only.

To create a palette

1. Select the fixture from which you want to capture the color.

Note: You can create a palette from only one fixture.

2. Right-click on the Palettes shortcut bar, and then choose New Palette.
3. Type the name of the palette, and then click OK.

Result: The CMY value is saved as a palette on the Palettes shortcut bar. This value can be a CMY mix, a color from the color wheel or scroll, or a combination of color sources.

Updating palettes

You can modify a Palette shortcut by modifying or replacing colors as required.

To update a palette

1. Select the fixtures from which you would like to record the palette.
2. Right-click on the Palettes shortcut that you want to modify, and then choose Update.

Result: The Palette shortcut is updated with the new CMY values.

To apply a palette

Applying a color palette is the equivalent of setting up color parameters for the selected fixtures, except it is much faster.

1. Select the fixtures for which you want to assign the specific color value.
2. Click on the desired palette shortcut.

Result: The fixtures are assigned the recorded copy value. If the fixture has CMY or color mixing capabilities, the output is the exact color that you selected. If the fixture is only equipped with a color wheel or a non-mixing scroller, the fixture outputs the closest color to that selected, based on the available colors on the wheel.