Blending a Color into a Palette Style

You can use the Tint Blend dialog box to blend a specific amount of a selected color into the swatches in a palette style.

For example, if a character is standing close to a fire, blend orange into the character’s palette style to show the firelight reflecting off the character’s body and clothing.

The difference between tint blend and tint offset is that when you use the Tint Offset command, you are increasing or decreasing the existing RGB/HSB/Alpha values of the swatches in a palette style. The Blend command add a new color into all the swatches in the palette style.

To blend a selected color into the selected palette style:

1. Select the palette and palette style you want to modify from the Color Palette tab.

2. Click the Contextual Menu button and select Style > Tint Blend. The Tint Blend dialog box opens.

3. Select the type of adjustment you want to make to the palette style. You have two choices:

RGB: adjusts the Red, Green, and Blue values in the current palette.
HSB: adjusts the Hue, Saturation, and Brightness values in the current palette.

4. Use the RGB/HSB sliders and the Alpha slider/field, select the type of color you want to mix with the current palette style.

As you make adjustments in this dialog box, the swatches in the current palette style change as well as the drawings that use those swatches, but the changes only become permanent when you click OK.

5. Use the Blending slider/field to select the percentage of the blend color you want to add to the current palette style.

6. Click OK to permanently blend the selected color into the swatches in the current palette style.