Palette Docker¶

The palette docker displays various color swatches for quick utilize. It also supports editing palettes and organizing colors into groups, every bit well equally arbitrary positioning of swatches.

New in version 4.2: The palette docker was overhauled in four.ii, allowing for grid ordering, storing palette in the certificate and more.

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You can cull from diverse default palettes or y'all tin add your own colors to the palette.

To choose from the default palettes click on the icon in the bottom left corner of the docker, it will testify a listing of pre-loaded color palettes. Yous can click on one and to load information technology into the docker, or click on import resources to load your own color palette from a file. Creating a new palette tin can be done past pressing the +. Fill out the name input, pressing Save and Krita volition select your new palette for you.

Since 4.2 Krita's color palettes are not just a list of colors to shop, only also a grid to organize them on. That'southward why you will get a grid with 'transparency checkers', indicating that there is no entry. To add an entry, just click a swatch and a new entry will be added with a default proper noun and the current foreground color.

  • Selecting colors is done by mouseleft on a swatch.

  • Pressing the delete icon will remove the selected swatch or group. When removing a group, Krita will always ask whether y'all'd like to keep the swatches. If and then, the group volition be merged with the default grouping.

  • Double mouseleft a swatch will retrieve the edit window where you can alter the colour, the proper noun, the id and whether it's a spot color. On a group this volition allow you to set the group name.

  • mouseleft drag volition allow you to drag and drop swatches and groups to social club them.

  • mouseright on a swatch will requite you lot a context carte du jour with change and delete options.

  • Pressing the + icon will permit you to add together a new swatch.

  • The drop down contains all the entries, id numbers and names. When a color is a spot colour the thumbnail is circular. You can utilize the dropdown to search on color name or id.

  • By elevate-and-dropping colors from the palette onto the layer stack, you lot can quickly create a fill up layer, while dropping them onto the sail allows you to fill the electric current layer with that color.

Pressing the Folder icon volition allow you to modify the palette. Hither you lot can add more columns, change the default group's rows, or add more groups and modify their rows.

Palette Proper name

Modify the palette name. This is the proper name for the palette as shown in the palette chooser dropdown.

File proper name

This is the file name of the palette, which should be file organisation friendly. (Avoid quotation marks, for example).

Cavalcade Count

The amount of columns in this palette. This counts for all entries. If yous accidentally make it smaller than the amount of entries that take upwards columns, you tin still make information technology bigger until the next restart of Krita.

Where is the palette stored:

Whether to store said palette in the certificate or resource binder.

Resource Folder

The default, the palette will be stored in the resource folder.

Document

The palette will be removed from the resource folder and stored in the document upon salvage. Information technology will be loaded into the resources upon loading the document.

Deprecated since version 5.0: This has been disabled for now.

Add together grouping

Add together a new group. On clicking you volition be asked for a proper noun and a ready of rows.

Group Settings

Here you can configure the groups. The dropdown has a selection of groups. The default group is at top.

Row Count

The corporeality of rows in the group. If yous want to add more colors to a group and in that location'southward no empty areas to click on anymore, increment the row count.

Rename Group

Rename the group.

Delete Group

Delete the group. It volition enquire whether you lot want to go on the colors. If so, it will merge the grouping'due south contents with the default grouping.

The edit and new color dialogs inquire for the following:

Color

The color of the swatch.

Name

The Name of the colour in a human being readable format.

ID

The ID is a number that can be used to index colors. Where Name can be something like "Pastel Peach", ID will probably exist something like "RY75". Both names and ids can exist used to search the colour in the color entry dropdown at the lesser of the palette.

Spot color

Currently not used for annihilation inside Krita itself, merely spot colors are a toggle to keep track of colors that correspond a real earth paint that a printer can friction match. Keeping track of such colors is useful in a printing workflow, and information technology tin can also exist used with python to recognize spot colors.

Krita's native palette format is since 4.0 *.kpl. It as well supports importing…

  • Gimp Palettes (.gpl)

  • Microsoft RIFF palette (.riff)

  • Photoshop Binary Palettes (.human action)

  • PaintShop Pro palettes (.psp)

  • Photoshop Swatches (.aco)

  • Scribus XML (.xml)

  • Swatchbooker (.sbz).