The Color Picker tool offers additional options for choosing and managing colors in Pixelmator Pro. You can also choose how the color picker samples colors or what information it displays. These settings will apply when picking colors everywhere in Pixelmator Pro.
Customize the tool:
Click anywhere in your image to pick a color.
Note: Pixelmator Pro remembers the settings you choose, the swatches you add, or the color palettes you create, so you can work with the same settings and colors across multiple documents.
You can use the color picker to easily save and manage the colors you work with in Pixelmator Pro:
Save a color swatch: When you have a color selected, in the Color Palettes pop-up menu, choose where you'd like to save it, then click or click More and choose Add Preset in the menu that appears.
Redefine a color swatch: If you'd like to replace the color of an existing color swatch with your currently selected color, you can redefine it.
– click a color swatch, then choose Redefine in the menu that appears.Remove a color swatch:
– click a color swatch, then select Remove in the menu that appears.Tip: To move or save a color to a different color palette, you can select the color swatch first, then open the palette you want and drag the color swatch to the list of swatches there.
You can use the color picker to create and manage your color palettes in Pixelmator Pro:
Create a color palette: Click More next to the Color Palettes pop-up menu and choose New Collection.
Rename a color palette: If you'd like to give your collection of swatches a different name, click More next to it, then choose Rename.
Remove a color palette: Click More next to the Color Palettes pop-up menu and choose Remove.