Any changes made to a
scheme are automatically saved. If you delete
or edit a colour there’s no way to undo it. An
Undo function might be added in a later
version.
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Any changes made to a
scheme are automatically saved. If you delete
or edit a colour there’s no way to undo it. An
Undo function might be added in a later
version.
Click on “Scheme: ” to open the Scheme Menu. Here you are presented with the tools related to the scheme itself.
Choose “New Scheme” from the Scheme Menu. You will then be presented with a window asking for title and filename.
Type the name of your new Scheme and then enter the filename with full path to where you want to store the Scheme. Click the “Browse” button to browse your system and pick the location you want.
This file dialog does
not automatically append the *.xcsm file
extension to the files.
You must remember to
add this yourself. This will hopefully be
corrected in later version.
Choose “Open Scheme” from the Scheme Menu and locate the file you want to open.
Alternatively you can drag and drop colour scheme files onto the gadget. When you drag a colour scheme onto an already open colour scheme you can choose to append the file you dragged to the one already open.
Currently there’s no
way to associate colour scheme with Colour
Scheme Manager due to limitation of DesktopX.
Hopefully a future version will support this
feature.
Click on “New Swatch...” at the bottom of the swatch list. It will only appear when there’s a colour scheme open.
Name the swatch and pick the colour.
At the moment you have
to use Windows’ colour picker. It has its
limitations that it only lets you enter RGB and
HSL values. A future version will feature a
custom colour picker with CMYK, Hex and long
support.
The HSL value ranges
used in Windows’ colour picker is not the same
as the ones used in Colour Manager. Colour
Manager matches what Photoshop uses.
Right click on a colour entry to bring up the Swatch Menu. This brings up your options for the specific swatch.
You can expand the swatch to display all the colour codes by left clicking the swatch list-item.
You can drag and drop the swatches in the list to organize them to your liking.
Warning: Dragging the swatch outside the gadget area will delete them with no undo function available.
Apart from using the Swatch Menu to delete a swatch you can also drag a swatch outside the gadget area. When you then release the mouse the swatch will be deleted. The drag symbol will say “Delete” to indicate that the swatch will be deleted if you release the mouse.
You can copy the colour values from the various colour spaces by using the Swatch Menu. If you click the colour sample of a swatch you copy the colour values of the default colour space.
The native colour space of computer monitors.
The Hue is given a value of 0–360 degrees with the Saturation and Lightness ranges from 0–100%. This is similar to how Photoshop let you pick HSL values.
CMYK colours needs
colour profiles of the source and the target
medium to be calculated accurately. Colour
Scheme Manager only performs a very generic
conversion and should only be regarded as
guidance.
Hexadecimal values in the same format used in HTML and CSS.
Some computer languages take colour codes in one integer number.
Here you set the default colour space to be used. This colour space is the one displayed next to the colour when a swatch is collapsed. It’s also the colour space copied when you click the colour sample.
By default Colour Scheme Manager will only copy the colour values. I.e.: “FF8000” or “255, 128, 0”. If you tick this option it will prefix the text copied with colour space indication; “#FF8000” or “RGB: 255, 128, 0”.
Tick this option if you want lower case letters in your hexadecimal values.
You can assign a hotkey that will bring the gadget to the front of your windows.