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Freeway Reference: Working with Color

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Knockout

Knockout can be used to punch text through its container item’s background

color. You can only apply Knockout to selected text; the color cannot be

applied to graphic items. In this example, we’ve also used the Overlay

attribute to outline the word, and applied the Shadow attribute to the item

that contains the knocked out text.

To create this effect in Freeway Pro and Express:

1. Draw some graphic items that will become the background to the text. These can contain photographs, plain background colors, or

fills created using graphic Actions. You can also just use the page background color or image.

2. Draw a graphic item, click in it and add some text. The Knockout effect works best with bold typefaces.

3. Give the text box a color, then select the text and choose Knockout from the color popup menu.

The text will appear to have been punched out of its container

item, and any background items will show through. Add further

effects as you wish.

Creating a new color

You can use the Mac OS Color Picker to create a new color and add it to the Colors panel of the palette or to edit an existing color. The

Color Picker also gives you a choice of color models, which allows you to specify colors in slightly different ways.

In order to create a new color, you can type in Hex values or display the Color Picker. There are three ways to do this in Freeway Pro:

• Choose Colors from the Edit menu, click New…, then click on the Picker button.

• Click on the Styles & Colors palette pop-out menu and choose New Color, or Control-click and choose New Color… from the

contextual menu, then click on the Picker button.

• Click on the Styles & Colors palette pop-out menu and choose Color Picker…, or Control-click and choose Color Picker… from

the contextual menu

The Mac OS X Color Picker window is displayed, showing the available color pickers. To use the different color pickers, click on one of

the color model icons in the top of the Color Picker window, then select your color using the available controls.

Editing, duplicating, and deleting colors

Once you’ve created a color in Freeway Pro, you can edit,

duplicate, or delete it.

Editing a color created in Freeway

FW Pro only

You can alter the color mix of an existing editable color as

follows:

1. The Color dialog must first be displayed, which can be

done in a number of ways: Command-click on the color

in the list of custom colors in the Styles & Colors palette;

choose Edit Colors… from the Styles & Colors palette

pop-out menu; or choose Colors… from the Edit menu,

select the color to edit from the scrolling list and then click

on Edit.

2. With the Color dialog now displayed, choose a new color.

3. Click OK.

Freeway now changes the color in the Styles & Colors palette and the menus. Any object or text using the original color is changed to

show the new color.

Duplicating a color

FW Pro only

Duplicating a non-editable color allows you to edit the duplicate. You

can duplicate an existing color as follows:

1. Choose Colors… from the Edit menu, or in the Styles & Colors

palette choose Edit Colors… from the menu.

2. Select the color to duplicate from the scrolling list.

3. Click the Duplicate button.

Freeway makes a copy of the color and adds it to the bottom of the

scrolling list using the original name plus the word “copy”. Now you

can edit the duplicate color (and change its name, if you want).

Power Tip: You can edit a speciﬁc color quickly by Control-

clicking it in the

Styles & Colors palette and choosing Edit

Color…

from the contextual menu.

Note: When using Knockout, the text color Opacity and Filters have no

effect on the selected text.

The

Color Picker

button

opens the

Mac OS X colors

palette, where

you can specify

and choose a

custom color from

the various color

models. See also

Color Picker

button on page

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