# Copying a Palette

Because many characters have the same types of features that need painting (hair, face, eyes, mouth, and so on), creating copies of a palette can save you time and effort. You can create one palette and use it as a template for other palettes.

When you have this template palette, you can then create a copy of it and change its name, the names of the palette styles, and customize all of it’s associated color swatches to suit each character and object in your scene.

For example, in this scene we created a palette style that contains most of the necessary color swatches for the Bikerdude character. Then we made two copies of that palette, one for each character, because they all share similar color zones (Skintone, Frame, shirt, pants and so on).

When you copy a palette, you are also copying all the palette styles contained in that palette. Each palette style contains the color swatches you can use to add color to a specific character.

To create a copy of your palette:

1. Select the palette you want to copy from the Name drop list in the Color Palette tab.

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

A new palette appears in the Palette Name drop-list. This copied palette contains all of the palette styles (and their associated color swatches) that the original palette had.

See Also
Swatches
Managing Your Colors with Palettes
Creating a Palette
Renaming a Palette
Creating Multiple Palette Styles