Colour View Menu

Palettes

Creates a new colour palette.

By default, Toon Boom Harmony Essentials is set to the Basic mode. For simple productions, it is recommended to use the Basic mode. This setting stores the palettes automatically for you and saves them at the Scene level. When you use the Advanced Palette Lists mode, you can decide at which level you want to store your palettes: Environment, Job, Scene, or Element.

Removes the selected palette from the palette list.

Lets you five the selected colour palette a new name.

Creates a copy of the original palette, using the same names and colour values, but has a different ID and is independent from the original palette. This ensures that both the duplicate and original palettes are completely independent.

Creates a copy of the master palette. The colours in each palette have the same properties. The colours have the same identification number pointing to the same colour zones, but they can have different names and RGBA values.

Moves the selected colour palette up one level.

Moves the selected colour palette down one level.

Opens the Colour Editor where you can pick and edit colour swatches.

When clone palettes are present in the palette list, by default, priority is given to the palette that is the highest in the palette list to decide which colours to apply to drawings. With this option enabled, priority is given to the currently selected palette. Selecting any of the clone palettes will make drawings use colours from the selected palette instead.

Colours

Cuts the selected colour swatch from the palette.

Copies the selected colour swatch which you can paste in a different palette.

Copies a colour swatch's colour ID so you can keep a reference file of colour IDs or use them with custom plug-ins. Example of a colour ID: 075cf5b552401130.

Pastes the colour value of the copied swatch over an existing colour swatch.

Creates a new colour swatch from the colour value of the copied swatch.

Pastes a copied colour to a new palette as a clone of the original one. Both colour use the same colour ID. They have to be in different palettes.

Creates a new colour swatch from the colour swatch that was last selected.

Opens the Colour Picker window in which you can edit the selected colour swatch.

Deletes the selected colour swatch from the palette.

Lets you add a bitmap colour swatch to your palette. You can load photos and textures and paint your drawings with it. The bitmap image must be a .tga or .psd file format.

Opens the browser to replace the texture used in a textured colour swatch. All zones using the swatch will be updated with the new texture.

Lets you set a new maximum texture size or scaling factor.

Locks a selected colour, so if you ever paint over it accidentally, the work already done will not be affected. You can also block the filling colours if you painted all of the animation in Line Art and plan to repaint the lines.

Displays the colour swatches with its corresponding name inside the swatch. When this option is not selected, the names of the colour swatches are displayed beside the swatch.

Bitmap colour selection is independent from the vector colour selection.

Bitmap Colour Sliders

Displays the colour picking sliders as RGB (red, green, blue).