Show in Contents

Add to Favorites

Home: Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2010 Help
Change brush properties

Change brushes and colors

Flood fill an area
Choose a color
Change the color of brushes.
SketchBook comes with an assortment of default colors. But, if you
can’t find what you want, create your own. Or, if a client has a
set color palette, pick the colors and add them to your palette.
With all these additions, if the palette is too large, hide what
isn’t needed.
Picking a default color
- Press your stylus over the color icon.
Some
default colors appear.
- Flick the stylus toward the color you
want, to change your brushstrokes to this color.
The current color appears in the tool interface.
NoteThe next time SketchBook
opens, the color last selected becomes the active default color.
Creating your own color
- Click the current color icon.
- For PC users,
the following Color Editor appears to pick
colors.
For Mac users, use the Colors
Editor that appears to pick a new color.
NoteThis window varies
depending on your version of Mac OS X.
Colors tabs for the Mac
Lets
you choose the hue and tints from a color wheel, and the value (light)
from a slider.
Lets you specify a color
by various color gradients, such as gray scale, RGB, CMYK, or HSB
values.
Lets you choose from
various lists of colors (Apple, Developer, Crayons, Web Safe), or create
your own list of colors.
Lets you choose a color
from a spectrum of hues and values.
Lets you pick from 48
colors displayed as a box of crayons.
Picking a color from the
screen (for PC users)
- Click the eyedropper
in the
color selector.
NoteYou can also press and hold the Alt key
to pick colors.
The
cursor changes to an eyedropper
.
- Click when the tip of the eyedropper
is over the color you want to use. When you lift the stylus, the
color appears in the swatch.
NoteTo pick a color from other applications
on the screen, hold down the Alt key and press the stylus
inside the Autodesk SketchBook Pro window. Holding down the Alt key,
drag outside the window until the eyedropper is over the color you
want.
Picking a color from the
screen (for Mac users)
- Click the magnifying
glass
in the color selector.
The cursor changes to
a magnifying glass.
- Click anywhere on the screen, with the
bull’s-eye of the magnifying glass over the color you want to use.
When you lift the stylus, the color appears in the swatch.
NoteYou
can also press and hold the Option key to pick colors.
Use this key to pick a color from another application. Press the
stylus inside the SketchBook window and drag the stylus outside
the window until it is over the color you want.
Setting the RGB (for PC
users)
In the Color
Editor, there are three RGB fields that allow you to
edit the individual RGB values.
- Open the Color Editor.
- Click the RGB fields
and add numeric values. The color in the Color Wheel changes to
display a color with those RGB values.
Creating a customized palette
of colors
- When creating a color to keep, drag the
color chip from the swatch to a palette spots at the bottom of the Color
Editor.
You can insert a color chip between two chips.
- To change a particular color in the palette,
drag another color over top of it.
Save a customized color
palette
Any time while working,
you can save a customized color palette by selecting File
> Save. The next time SketchBook opens,
the color palette appears.
Showing/hiding parts of
the Color EditorThe top and bottom of
the Color Editor have arrows for
showing and hiding aspects of the editor.
- Click the arrow at the top to show/hide
the color wheel.
- Click the arrow at the bottom to show/hide
the color palette. If you click-drag the arrow up/down while the
palette is open, you can determine the number of visible color chips.