COPASO

There are many tools to create a palette: the Basic Palette editor (no widths click to go there) and PHOTOCOPA (from a picture) and COPASO

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Using COPASO to easily combine palettes

By iluvhim637

A combined palette or Mashup is a palette made from 2 other palettes. (see an example)


TO ACCESS COPASO
Click TOOLS > COPASO
On all COLOURlovers pages there is a top menu, on the very right click on ‘TOOLS’ then in the submenu, on ‘COPASO’ - or just click here


1) Publish This will ask you 'New' or 'Overwrite'? = publish a new palette or overwrite your previous one.
Careful: If you publish a 2nd palette by editing a old one, save it first or you will not be able to edit the old one!!
2) Save (without publishing)
3) Open to edit a saved palette
4) Scratch is a kind of scratpad where you can put aside all the colour you might use
5) Colours is to search for colours
6) Palette is to search for palettes
7) Palette Details is to write all the details of your palette:
8) Palette creation area :
9) Notes: Notes added here are 'attached' to the palette, they will show up each time you edit the same palette.
10) image area:

Palettes is what we want, so click on ‘Palette’


SEARCHING PALETTES
In the ‘Palette’ area, click in the ‘keyword’ box and type the name or tags of the palette you want.

For this exercise, type: IFRC and then validate by clicking ‘search palettes’.

It should find it for you...

Now this is what you should something like this



Tiny pictures of palettes should pop up.

Click on the tiny plus in the upper left corner of the palettes you want to combine, they will be added to your scratchpad.


Repeat the process until you have all the colours you want.


Now go to your scratchpad by clicking on SCRATCH, it should now contain all the colours you want and should look something like this:


Now you can make your palette!


To add the colors to the top palette area:

1) in the top palette area, click to select where you want to put your colour.

2) in the scratchpad, double click the color you want.

The color should appear in the top palette.




To adjust the widths of each colour

Drag the small arrows between each colour.

Make each color as skinny as you would like or as wide as you want


Now, click on ‘Palette Details’ and fill in all the palette details: Name, description, tags...

... and save it and your good to go!

PS: you can also add it to the Take Two [2] or the Mix’n Mashup group!


Hope this helps! Love Iluvhim

 

How To Keep The same widths:

PS: Copied my answer from this comment



Edit the same palette without touching the widths!
Click save to have a copy in your 'database' and then publish -> New
(if you don't save, you'll lose the possibility to edit your 1st palette!)

But sometimes when you re-open a palette, the widths aren't right - in that case re-open it many times as necessary (generally 3x for thin widths) - until the widths is right

 

HOW TO CHANGE THE WIDTHS

mujuuryoku wrote:

(click image to enlarge)
When you're creating palettes in COPASO, the arrows to adjust the widths are right above the palette box, in between the boxes that say "color not set" or in between the colors you've chosen. Hope that helps!

 

COPIED FROM THE FAQ

(and slightly updated)

How to create your own palettes

There are 3 ways to create a palette on ColourLovers:
>> Basic Editor: no widths.
To access it, click on the main menu 'Create' > "Palette" - see more about it here
>> Copaso: with widths. and has more colour tools eg, shows the complimentary colour of the selected colour. -See more about it here
>> PHOTOCOPA Picking colours from a hosted photo - or you can choose one available in the gallery tab - See more about it here
Both COPASO and PHOTOCOPA can be accessed from the 'Tools' menu you see above




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> >MadPattern Educational Series
Help! All my palette ratings have disappeared ! Where have all my little hearts gone?
What are all those fields in the "Create a Palette" page for?
How to edit an existing palette

How can I delete a palette?
What is a palette badge and how can I post one?
How to download palettes.
Keeping track of palettes: searching, creating favorites and tagging
voting and rating palettes
Can I use a palette here for my own work - what are the terms of use?
How do I ad a palette to a group?
How do I make a pattern from a palette?
How can I adjust the widths of a palette? (you have to use the copaso mixer - read all about it here)

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