Managing Color

TempoWeave supports for multiple color palettes, including provided palettes for a few popular yarn lines. See Yarn Catalog

Color palettes from the Yarn Catalog will have color names. Default names will be derived automatically if no name is available.

Personal color palettes can be developed and stored in the "My Yarns" area of the yarn catalog.

Changing Colors

There are many ways to change color. The most basic function is to select a color in the palette by clicking to make it the Active color. The current Active Color is shown at the top of the color palette in a larger color block as shown in purple below. The colors used in the draft are right under the active color. The divider (with three white dots) separates currently used colors from the palette below.

To change a color of a warp or weft thread, select a color either from the active palette or available colors below the divider line. Use the straight draw tool to click or drag in the color bar across the threads.

In the picture below ,the warp threads have been colored magenta. The current cursor position in position 14 has a yellow box around the color.

To change a color in the Palette, right and choose Edit click to reveal a screen similar to the following. If the yarn did not come from the database, it will not have a name. You'll notice that a system generated name appears when you hover over the color in the palette, even though it has no name. When right clicking on the color, as shown with the orange color below, you can fill in the color name and optionally assign an name for the yarn line and yards per pound. You can also change the color by either typing the RGB value or clicking the icon to the right.

Color Swap

To swap a color that is being used in the current design to another within the current color palette, right click on the color from the active palette and choose Color Swap.

As shown in the picture below, the choice is given to replace the selected color throughout the design or just in warp or weft. Select the new color and click OK to replace. The color will be replaced whether it's in the color bars or in section color assembly.

Color Swap does not change a color in the palette; Color Swap changes every place that a color is used with another color from the palette.

Other TempoWeave functions that help manage color design in your project include:

• Color Replace

• Warp and Weft Color assembly in Section Assembly

• Yarn Catalog (including My Yarns)

• Echo (where you can designate the color of the generated parallel lines)

Also see the project planning functions concering color and yardage calculations Color Information

To view colors in grayscale, reflecting the value instead of hue, a View feature for Gray Scale of the drawdown (includes cloth view functions as well) as the palette are available.