Adobe 38028779 User Guide - Page 87

Working with colors In Dreamweaver, many of the dialog boxes, as well as the Property inspector for many page elements, contain a color box, which opens a color picker. Use the color picker to choose a color for a page element. To choose a color in Dreamweaver: 1 Click a color box in any dialog box or in the Property inspector. The color picker appears. Property inspector color box 2 Do one of the following: • Use the eyedropper to select a color swatch from the palette. All colors in the Color Cubes (default) and Continuous Tone palettes are Web-safe; other palettes are not. • Use the eyedropper to pick up a color from anywhere on your screen-even outside the Dreamweaver windows. (If you click the desktop or another application, Dreamweaver picks up the color where you clicked, but you may switch into the other application; in that case, click a Dreamweaver window to continue working in Dreamweaver, or hold down the mouse button when moving from Dreamweaver to the desktop to keep from switching out of Dreamweaver.) • To expand your color selection, use the pop-up menu at the top right corner of the color picker. You can select Color Cubes, Continuous Tone, Windows OS, Mac OS, Grayscale, and Snap to Web Safe. Note that the Color Cubes and Continuous Tone palettes are Web safe, whereas Windows OS, Mac OS and Grayscale are not. If you are using a palette that isn't Web-safe and then choose Snap to Web Safe, Dreamweaver replaces the selected color with the closest Web-safe color. In other words, you may not get the color you see. • To clear the current color without choosing a different color, click the Strikethrough button. • To open the system color picker, click the Color Wheel button. Dreamweaver Basics 87