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Modifying color palettes

Each Flash file contains its own color palette, stored in the Flash document. Flash displays a file’s palette as swatches in the Fill Color and Stroke Color controls and in the Color Swatches panel. The default color palette is the Web-safe palette of 216 colors. You can add colors to the current color palette using the Color Mixer. See “Working with solid colors and gradient fills in the Color Mixer” on page 80.

To import, export, and modify a file’s color palette, you use the Color Swatches panel. You can duplicate colors, remove colors from the palette, change the default palette, reload the Web-safe palette if you have replaced it, or sort the palette according to hue. You can import and export both solid and gradient color palettes between Flash files, as well as between Flash and other applications, such as Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop. Duplicating and removing colors

You can duplicate colors in the palette, delete individual colors, or clear all colors from the palette. To duplicate a color or delete a color:

1 If the Color Swatches panel is not visible, choose Window > Color Swatches.
2 Click the color that you want to duplicate or delete.
3 Choose Duplicate Swatch or Delete Swatch from the pop-up menu in the upper right corner. To clear all colors from the color palette:
In the Color Swatches panel, choose Clear Colors from the pop-up menu in the upper right corner. All colors are removed from the palette except black and white. Using the default palette and the Web-safe palette
You can save the current palette as the default palette, replace the current palette with the default palette defined for the file, or load the Web-safe palette to replace the current palette. To load or save the default palette:
In the Color Swatches panel, choose one of the following commands from the pop-up menu in the upper right corner:
• Load Default Colors replaces the current palette with the default palette.
• Save as Default saves the current color palette as the default palette. The new default palette is used when you create new files.
To load the Web-safe 216-color palette:
In the Color Swatches panel, choose Web 216 from the pop-up menu in the upper right corner.
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