Book III 3 in Java

Generator Code 128 in Java Book III 3

By default, all text in Fireworks is black Although black is handy and always in fashion, it s not the right color for every occasion Changing font color in Fireworks is pretty easy To change your color the basic way, just follow these steps:

you want to change the color of Click and drag until you ve selected all the text you want to make a different color Alternatively, if you re using the Pointer tool, click the text once to select it

The color picker appears on-screen, showing only Web safe colors by default (see Figure 3-4) Your mouse pointer changes to an eyedropper when you roll over the palette The System Color Picker, which offers other color options, is discussed later in this section You can move the eyedropper anywhere within the Fireworks window

The square is now the color you have selected for your text More importantly, your selected text is that color as well If the text appears to be a different color than the square, that s because the text is highlighted Click anywhere on the canvas or click any tool to deselect the text and see the color applied to the text If you don t feel like moving your mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen, you can also change the color of your font by using the Colors area of the Tools panel It works the same way as the color picker in the Property inspector, but you save moving that extra inch or so down the screen The color picker contains a number of different views The default view is Web safe color cubes You can switch views by clicking the right-facing triangle in the top-right corner of the color picker, and then selecting a new view from the list that appears The other views include the following: Swatches panel: Displays your saved colors If you have any saved colors, they show up here If not, the panel displays the Web safe palette Continuous tone: Shows the colors as they move from lighter to darker left to right across the color picker These are the same colors as the Web safe color cubes, just arranged differently Windows OS: Shows the 217 Web safe colors that are also the Windows operating system colors

Grayscale: Provides a range of grays from light to dark Be warned though, only six grayscale colors are Web safe! What if the color you want isn t in the Web safe palette Well, thankfully, Fireworks provides you with a number of different coloring options On the top of the palette is the System Color Picker (the color wheel near the middle of the top of the color picker) You can click the System Color Picker to see your other color options The System Color Picker offers several other ways for you to choose a color, as shown in Figure 3-5: RGB values: Red, Green, and Blue are the colors that make up all the colors you can see on-screen Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity values: A different way of telling the computer how to combine red, blue, and green The color matrix: A visual representation of the Hue (the horizontal axis), Saturation (the vertical axis), and Luminosity (the extra strip on the right) values

Using the color matrix gives you the most flexibility in choosing a color in that you can visually pick precisely the color you want Here s how you use the color matrix:

Picker The Color dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 3-5

You see a cross hair where you clicked At the center of the cross hair is the color you chose The higher you go in the matrix, the more