A multi-functional window, this feature helps you blend two colours together, or find subtle alternatives to a particular colour.
Add Chips
- In ColourSys, go to Colour Menu > Sample Chips. The Blend Chips Window will open.
- Find two colours which are to be blended together and drag them individually into the Start Colour and End Colour boxes.
- Enter the number of blends required in the Number of chips box. This number includes the start and end colours.
- Enter a prefix if necessary.
The prefix, as its name implies, is pre-pended to the name of every chip added in the blend. By using different prefixes it is possible to keep sets of blended chips together in the colour file.
If you do not use a prefix and you blend two or more sets of colours, the blended colours will all be mixed up in the colour file because of the chip numbering used.
- Activate the colour file that the chips must be added to. This can be a new, or existing colour file.
- Click Add Chips. The blended chips will be added to the selected colour file. They will be numbered 000, 001, 002, 003 and so on.
- Double click the new chips to rename them if necessary.
Add Variants
Variations of the start colour, which change by 1 delta-e, can be added to a colour file as a way to refine an original colour by very small amounts. For example a substrate colour can be made slightly lighter, darker, more or less saturated and so on, by adding variations of it to a new colour file.
- Go to File Menu > New.
- Go to Colour Menu > Sample Chips.
- Drag the colour to be varied to the Start Colour box.
Delete
Note: When you use the Add Variants option, the End Colour is ignored.
- Enter the number of variants required, for example 17.
- Click on Add Variants. The colours will be added to the new colour file.
- Change the view of the colour file to ColourBook and view 17 chips across and down. The colours will be arranged on the page with the closest colour to the Start Colour in the centre and each colour around it changing by 1 delta-e away from the original.
- Drag any colours to be kept into your usual colour file and name them accordingly.
