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3. Basics of PhotoLine / 3.3 User Interface Elements

### 3.3.2 The Color Field

In PhotoLine color fields look like this: . The term color field is not quite precise because a color field is usually able to contain a pattern or a gradient color, too.

Patterns are normal image layers with or without transparency. Therefore it is possible to simply drag an image layer onto a color field. The result is a pattern. The inverse case is possible, too: On Windows it can be dragged to a free part of the main window to create a document with the pattern. On macOS you have to drag the pattern to a non-PhotoLine window and to hold Alt.

Whether a color field is able to contain a pattern, depends on its use. Usually only user interface settings are not allowed to contain patterns.

If the color field contains a simple color, it shows the color model coded using the corners:

- RGB: all corners are there
- Gray: missing lower-left corner
- CMYK: missing lower-right corner
- Lab: missing upper-right corner

If there is a small point in the respective corner, the color is a spot color (see chapter 2.1.5). The point is in the lower-right corner for RGB colors.

A double click on a color field opens the Color Editor (see chapter 3.4), which can be used to edit the color.

By using the context menu of the color field you can show the Harmony dialog. Harmony allows you to create a series of colors, that can be used in combination with each other. These series can be saved in the presets or can be copied to the colors list (see chapter 4.13) by using to color list.