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  Quick and Easy Gel Buttons in Canvas™ 7
Part Four

Shifting The Hue To Create a Rainbow of Colored Buttons

As you will have noticed, we are using the HSL color model for the button. The colors used in Objects 1, 2 and 4 follow the pattern in the following table:

  Object 1 Object 2 Object 4
H h h h
S 100 100 100
L 15 50 40

In the table above, the h stands for the value of the hue. Using the HSL color model simply choose any value between 1 and 360 for h. The value for the yellow hue of the master button is 60. The colors used in Objects 1, 2 and 4 have 60 as the value for the hue in all of them. You change the color of the button simply by entering the same value for the fill ink in Objects 1 and 2 and for the second color of the gradient fill of Object 4. The rainbow of buttons shown in the graphic below was produced by using a value of 0 (zero) for the hue in the first one on the left and by incrementing this value by 30 for each button to produce 12 different colored buttons. Try some variations of your own. There are 348 additional combinations.

17. Let's go through the steps to change the color of the button. Start by selecting the object at the bottom of the stack ("Object 1"). Right-click (Windows®) or Control-click (Mac®) to access the context menu. The objects directly under the point where the mouse was clicked will appear in the menu. Choose the bottom one in the stack.

18. Bring up the Color manager in the Inks palette (click here for more on creating colors with the Color manager). Choose either "HSL Wheel" or "HSL Bars".

19. Enter zero for the hue (circled below bottom), then make sure the Fill icon is depressed (circled below top) then click "Apply". The color of "Object 1" will change to dark red.

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