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Colors, Color Picker and Thread Catalog

Color control in an embroidery design is a key task not only to make the design look good on screen, but also to optimize the number of thread changes and cuts. The number and order of colors affects the quality and production time of the final embroidery. Therefore, Studio provides tools to view the color layout and adjust the corresponding colors.

Colors in Object Inspector

Colors displayed in Object Inspector

List of objects in the Object Inspector contains information about color of individual objects.

All vector objects in the design have the color property, but for some object types like carvings and openings (holes) the color property is not applicable.

Small rectangular box in each row of Object Inspector is a color sample from the object. If this row contains grouped objects, the box displays color of the first object in the group.

The number marked with an arrow indicates the color sequence number. The colors in this list are numbered in order of occurrence. In this example, the list contains 4 different colors. Objects #2, #3, and #4 have the same color. The color sequence allows you to optimize thread changes on the embroidery machine.

Color Palette

Color Palette

The basic tool for working with colors in Studio is the Palette in the upper corner of the screen. Newly created objects will take the color from the highlighted cell (in this example, maroon).

The Palette also allows the following operations:

In addition, you can save or load the palette using Main Menu > Design > Export/Import > Color Palette > Load and Save Palette Commands.

Thread Catalog

Thread Catalog icon

Many users want to digitize with real thread colors to get best possible preview of embroidery and to speed up the creation of a color sheet (documentation) in basic Embird program. Studio provides a Thread Catalog tool that allows to choose from predefined colors matching the thread colors.

Thread Catalog tool is accessible from main menu > Object and the pop-up menu. The pop-up menu appears upon secondary mouse button click on selected objects in the Work Area or in the Object Inspector list. There is also a Pop-Up button to access pop-up menu with primary mouse button click or with a finger tap.

By default, the Thread Catalog takes color of the first selected object as a reference color. Threads that are closest to this color are displayed on top of the list.

Color Picker

The Color Picker tool is accessible from the pop-up menu.

It can be used to pick color from the underlying raster picture.

Use of the 3x3 pixels or 5x5 pixels average sample may help in case of the noisy picture.

Color Mixer

Color Mixer is a panel with controls which allow to define your own color by RGB or HSL components or by picking it from the color plane.

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