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Importing Photoshop .aco color palettes
- Menu > Window > Color Set
- click on the menu of the Color Set palette
- select the Import Color set… menu
- select your .aco file (or files)
Here is a nice Copic set of Photoshop color palettes.
Intermediate Color
- Menu > Window > Intermediate Color
- the Intermediate Color palette mixes up to 4 colors
- the mouse cursor changes into a bucket when hovering over one of the 4 corner boxes - click the mouse button to fill that corner the current drawing color
- keep the bottom left to white and the bottom right to black to get also color shades
Approximate Color
- Menu > Window > Intermediate Color
- allows you to get analogous colors
- start a color - this will become the main color of this palette
- play with the horizontal and vertical sliders until you get the desired colors
- you can now pick any color from this palette
- if you change the sliders, the current color becomes the main color (central) color of this palette
Color History
- Menu > Window > Intermediate Color
- shows all colors you’ve selected and used for drawing
- you can save the current colors as a set or clear the history via the palette menu
Selecting colors via Sub View
- Menu > Window > Sub View
- Sub View palette allows you to use some references without restoring to opening them in a tab, as a regular drawing image
- you can load multiple references in the Sub View
- use the color picker to select colors from your reference images
- the images loaded in the Sub View are reloaded when the program restarts and are not tied to a particular document
