Help: Palettes

What are Palettes?

Palettes are a set of up to six colors of your choice. Palettes are typically used as a basis for coordinating color choices for a room, sets of clothing, colors within a quilt, etc. Color Hints provides four ways of creating a Palette, by

• Choosing colors from a color wheel
• Choosing colors from a photographs
• Choosing colors from a web page
• Having Color Hints choose colors based on one color of your choice and a color matching pattern

The Palettes tab

From the Palettes tab, the following can be done:

• Create or edit a Palette Collection
• Create or edit a Palette
• Rearrange the ordering of, or delete Palettes
• Share a Palette via EMail and social media
• Display a large version of a color shown in the Palette tab by using a long press on a color
• Short cut gestures

Creating or editing Palette Collections

Click the + button in the tool bar (upper left) to create a new collection of Palettes.

A Palette Collection must have a name. Without a name the Palette Collection will not be created.

The Palette Collection can be protected from accidental deletion by turning off the "Collection can be deleted" switch

Creating a Palettes Collection

Creating or editing a Palette

Click the + button in the Palette collection header to add a swatch to the collection. Or, an existing swatch can be double tapped to begin editing.

Each Palette can have a name and comment. These are not required, but may be helpful in remembering what each Palette is based on, or its intended use.

As mentioned, Palettes can be created four in ways. Each is described separately

• Choosing colors from a color wheel color wheel (iPhone version)
• Choosing colors from a photographs photograph
• Choosing colors from a web page web page
• Having Color Hints choose colors based on one color of your choice and a color matching pattern Color matching

Rearranging and deleting Palettes in the Palettes tab

The Edit button in the tool bar of the Palettes tab allows swatches to be deleted, their order rearranged, or edited (click the button). Click the Done button when finished editing.

When a Palette Collection is deleted, a confirmation is required that will indicate how many Palettes will be deleted with the collection.

Sharing Palettes

Select a Palette to share by tapping the Palette. With a Palette selected, tap the action button . The choices available will depend on which services are configured on your device. Possible choices include

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Message
• EMail
• Weibo
• Copy to paste in another app

Short cuts

• Double tapping a Palette will edit the Palette
• Sliding from right to left on a Palette will initiate a delete
• A tap and hold on a color of a Palette will display a large version of that color along with the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, black) values for the color.