1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3
4<!--***********************************************************
5 *
6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
7 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
8 * distributed with this work for additional information
9 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
12 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
13 *
14 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
15 *
16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
19 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
21 * under the License.
22 *
23 ***********************************************************-->
24
25
26
27<helpdocument version="1.0">
28<meta>
29<topic id="textsdrawguideeyedropperxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Replacing Colors</title>
31<filename>/text/sdraw/guide/eyedropper.xhp</filename>
32</topic>
33</meta>
34<body>
35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147436"><bookmark_value>eyedropper tool</bookmark_value>
36<bookmark_value>colors; replacing</bookmark_value>
37<bookmark_value>replacing;colors in bitmaps</bookmark_value>
38<bookmark_value>metafiles;replacing colors</bookmark_value>
39<bookmark_value>bitmaps;replacing colors</bookmark_value>
40<bookmark_value>GIF images;replacing colors</bookmark_value>
41</bookmark>
42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147436" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="38"><variable id="eyedropper"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/eyedropper.xhp" name="Replacing Colors">Replacing Colors</link>
43</variable></paragraph>
44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156286" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="24">You can replace colors in bitmaps with the <emph>Color Replacer</emph> tool.</paragraph>
45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154704" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Up to four colors can be replaced at once.</paragraph>
46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147344" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">You can also use the <emph>Transparency</emph> option to replace the transparent areas of an image with a color.</paragraph>
47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148488" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="27">Similarly, you can use the <emph>Color Replacer</emph> to make a color on your image transparent.</paragraph>
48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150205" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="CHG" oldref="28">To replace colors with the Color Replacer tool</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154656" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">Ensure that the image you are using is a bitmap (for example, BMP, GIF, JPG, or PNG) or a metafile (for example, WMF).</paragraph>
50<list type="ordered">
51<listitem>
52<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150202" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="30">Choose <emph>Tools - Color Replacer</emph>.</paragraph>
53</listitem>
54<listitem>
55<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155531" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="31">Click the Color Replacer icon and position the mouse pointer over the color you want to replace in the image. The color appears in the box next to the icon.</paragraph>
56</listitem>
57<listitem>
58<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3152985" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">Click the color in the image. The color appears in the first <emph>Source color</emph> box and the check box next to the color is selected.</paragraph>
59</listitem>
60<listitem>
61<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148866" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">In the <emph>Replace with</emph> box, select the new color.</paragraph>
62<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3145362" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">This replaces all occurrences of the <emph>Source color</emph> in the image.</paragraph>
63</listitem>
64</list>
65<list type="ordered" startwith="5">
66<listitem>
67<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3151191" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">If you want to replace another color while the dialog is open, select the check box in front of <emph>Source color</emph> in the next row and repeat steps 3 to 5.</paragraph>
68</listitem>
69<listitem>
70<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149876" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="36">Click <emph>Replace</emph>.</paragraph>
71</listitem>
72</list>
73<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3157871" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="37">If you want to expand or contract the color selection area, increase or decrease the tolerance of the <emph>Color Replacer</emph> tool and repeat your selection.</paragraph>
74<section id="relatedtopics">
75<embed href="text/sdraw/guide/color_define.xhp#color_define"/>
76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146878" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="39"><link href="text/shared/01/06030000.xhp" name="Color Replacer">Color Replacer</link></paragraph>
77</section>
78</body>
79</helpdocument>
80