Graphics Programs Reference
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2 Creating a variation on the palette. Once in RA, to vary the color assignment for
your pattern—but not allow RA to alter the actual hues, tints, or shades—click on
the Color Reduction icon and choose Exact for the Recolor Method. Get inspiration
for differ-ent colorways by clicking on the “Randomly change color order” icon at
the bottom of the New column. Although your colors stay the same, they are
applied to different objects in the pattern. There's no Undo in RA to recover a
colorway, so when you see potential, consider saving your color group in RA, or
click OK, then save a new pat-tern with Save a Copy in PEM (see below). To further
modify the assignment of col-ors, drag one new color over another to swap them.
You also can drag a color from the Current Colors column into the New column to
restore an original assignment. Click the “Randomly changes saturation and
brightness” icon (beneath the New col-umn), to create even greater variation
between your original colorway and a new scheme that is still based on your
original color group.
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Using the Random button to reorder the color assignments for
the pattern elements
