PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

Painting and Drawing 75
To swap foreground and background colours, click the double arrow
button next to the swatches. To reset the colours to black and white, click
the black and white mini-swatch at the bottom left of the swatch.
Clicking an active swatch will also let you apply a chosen colour from the
Adjust Colour dialog's colour wheel, and will let you define and store that
colour in a set of custom colours.
The Colour tab makes it possible to set the working colour mode to any one of the
following: RGB (Red, Green, Blue); CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black); HSL
(Hue, Saturation, Lightness); or Greyscale.
To set the colour mode:
• Select a mode from the Colour Mode list.
Storing colours
If you want to save colours that you
want to work with frequently, you can
store them in the Swatches tab as
thumbnails (this avoids continually
defining colours in the Colour tab).
The Swatches tab hosts galleries of
categorized colour thumbnails—you
can store your own frequently used
colours to the Default category (or
any currently selected category, e.g.
Colour_Gall_53) by using the Colour
tab or Colour Pickup Tool; you can
also create categories yourself into
which you can add your own
thumbnails.
The Swatches tab also lets you choose pre-defined colours from a range of
“themed” categories (e.g., Earth, Fruits, Pastel, and Web browser safe).
To add, edit or delete a Gallery category:
• Click Add Category... from the Swatches tab's Tab Menu button and enter
a name in the dialog. You can also Edit category... or Delete category from
the same location.