Using Global Colors, Pen Tool with Publisher

[PaulWilliamson]

Hi,

I set up a Global Color.  How do I use it?

I draw a line with a pen tool and when I let go of it with the mouse, it disappears.

How do I use both?

Thanks!

-paulw

 

Edited May 11, 2020 by PaulWilliamson
Forgot to mention the Affinity product

[walt.farrell]

You need to assign a Stroke to the line you've drawn. See the Context Toolbar. As you're doing that you should be able to assign a global color to your stroke if you want.

[PaulWilliamson]

Hi Walt,

Where do I select the Global Color?  I can't find them anywhere.  Not under Color, Swatches, or Stroke on the right-hand panel.  When I go to set up another "Kelly Green" Global Color I am told it already exists and select another name but yet I can't find the existing ones!

-paul

[walt.farrell]

To create a global color you must have created a document palette, then added the color to the document palette as a global color.

So, on the Context Toolbar when you have the Pen Tool selected, click on the color well for the stroke, then choose Swatches, then choose your document palette if it's not already selected, and click on the global color you want.

[PaulWilliamson]

Hi,

I do not want the color to just be used for the pen tool.  I went to the swatches tab, clicked on the little menu on the top-right and selected Add Global Color. Now I cannot find it.  The palette choices all seem inappropriate (Add Application Palette, Add Document Palette, Rename Palette, Delete Palette, Set as Default For, Create Palette from Document, Create Palette from Image, Import Palette, Export Palette,...).

I followed the instructions from https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-stylish-magazine-layout-in-affinity-publisher--cms-31847

The person simply creates a Global Color (step 6) does not use a palette and simply selects the color from the character tab but I do not see mine there unless it is a recently used color.  I thought it would be visible somewhere with a little folded corner on it as I read in a Google post I found (but the author does not say where it lives).

Thanks,

paulw

 

[walt.farrell]

As far as I know you cannot have a global color unless you have a document palette. Although, I see from the Help on Global Colors that Affinity will automatically create a document palette for you if you create a global color when a document palette does not exist.

So, look for a palette you don't recognize. If I had to guess it will probably be named "Unnamed", by default.

[Pšenda]

29 minutes ago, PaulWilliamson said:

The palette choices all seem inappropriate (Add Application Palette, Add Document Palette, Rename Palette, Delete Palette, Set as Default For, Create Palette from Document, Create Palette from Image, Import Palette, Export Palette,...).

Yes, this is menu for palette manipulation (Import, Export, Delete). You must select "Document" palette.

[PaulWilliamson]

Okay thanks!  I will mess with this tomorrow.  I do see Unnamed when doing this but I do not see the global color I created. It is under Recent but I can't tell if it loaded apalette is just showing the recent colors I used.  I will do a test by creating adding a crazy global color and see if I can tell the difference.

Thanks!

-paulw

[PaulWilliamson]

Hi,

I do not see the little palette icons though.  Just a couple little squares that say Add Current Color to Palette As a Global Color.  And the first one says Fill instead of Color.

-paulw

[Pšenda]

Screenshot?

Global color has small triangle on the left bottom.

https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Clr/globalClr.html

[PaulWilliamson]

If I take a screenshot with a dropdown open, it disappears.  Here is what I did take.

I am using the latest version of Publisher.

Thanks!

-paulw

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, PaulWilliamson said:

Here is what I did take.

Both of those palettes are Application palettes. (Note the black Affinity logo to the left of the palette name.) A Document palette has a dog-eared page icon, like the one shown in the screenshot @Pšenda posted above.

[PaulWilliamson]

Hi,

Those art palette icons do not appear like that in my version.  Just the ones with the square and plus sign.  

I did figure out how to make a color global in a document palette.

Thanks.

-paul

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, PaulWilliamson said:

I did figure out how to make a color global in a document palette.

That's the only place you can have a global color.

[PaulWilliamson]

On 5/11/2020 at 4:35 PM, walt.farrell said:

As far as I know you cannot have a global color unless you have a document palette. Although, I see from the Help on Global Colors that Affinity will automatically create a document palette for you if you create a global color when a document palette does not exist.

So, look for a palette you don't recognize. If I had to guess it will probably be named "Unnamed", by default.

You are right Walt!  Thanks!

-paulw

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome, Paul.