Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
The Color Swatches Panel
The Color Swatches panel holds several preloaded groups of colors you can choose from. To
call it up, go to Window→Color Swatches. You can park it in the Panel Bin just like any oth-
er panel or leave it floating on your desktop. When you're ready to choose a color, just head
to this panel and click the swatch you want, and it appears in the Tools panel's foreground
color square or in the color box of the tool you're using.
The Color Swatches panel is really handy when you want to keep certain colors at your fin-
gertips. For instance, you can put your logo colors into it, and then you always have them
available for any graphics or ads you create in Elements.
Elements starts you off with several different
libraries
(groups) of color swatches; click the
drop-down menu at the top of the panel to see them all. Any swatch you create using the
techniques in the next section appears at the bottom of the current library; you can save it
there or create your own swatch libraries.
Using the Color Swatches panel to select your foreground or background color is as easy as
using the Eyedropper tool;
Figure 7-19
shows you how. And
Figure 7-20
explains how to
change the way the panel displays swatch info.
