Working with colors and materials

Whether you are applying color to an image, creating Web projects, or designing scrapbook pages, it’s important to understand how to choose and manage colors and materials in Corel PaintShop Pro.

This section presents the following topics:

• Using the Materials palette

• Choosing colors in the Material Properties dialog box

• Choosing colors for paletted images

• Choosing colors from an image or the desktop

• Using gradients

• Editing gradients

• Exporting and importing gradients

• Applying a color or transparency gradient with the Gradient Fill tool

• Using patterns

• Using textures

• Working with custom color palettes and swatches