# Creating Multiple Palette Styles

A palette includes one or more palette styles. After you create the swatches in a palette style, you can make multiple copies of this palette style and customize them to suit different light and color settings.

Multiple palette styles allow you to adjust a character’s colors instantly instead of recoloring each swatch.

When you switch palette styles Toon Boom Studio automatically repaints those zones with the same properties of the active palette style. When you export your animation, the active palette style is used.

When you add a color swatch to one palette style, Toon Boom Studio automatically adds it to all the palette styles in the current palette. This allows you to create different color styles for a single drawing, while keeping the same swatches in each style.

To create a new palette style in a set:

1. In the Color Palette tab, select the palette and palette style you want to use to create the new style.

2. Click the Contextual Menu button and select Style > Duplicate Style from the pop-up menu.

A new palette style appears in the Palette style drop-list with a default name (Style#). The copied style contains all swatches in the original palette style.

3. Customize the color swatches as necessary.

| Remember that you can change the color properties of a swatch in a palette style without changing the properties of the same swatch in the other palette styles. If you attempt to change the name of a swatch, or add a new swatch, all the styles in the palette reflect this change as well.

See Also
Swatches
Managing Your Colors with Palettes
Creating a Palette
Renaming a Palette Style
Deleting a Palette Style