Identifying Color Values to Use for Background, Text, and Link Colors
If you already have an existing Web site, you may want to use some of the same colors on your SmartVault custom-branded portal.
SmartVault provides a color picker on the SmartVault Customize Branding page that allows you to use the following types of color pickers to specify the colors you want to use for background, text, and link colors:
• Web Palette
• RGB Sliders (Red, Green Blue)
• HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness)
• HSV (Hue, Saturation, and Value)
Simply select the tab for the color picker you want to use, and then type in the appropriate values.
If you want to use some of the same colors on your custom-branded portal that you use on your existing Web site but you don’t know the color values and you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 on your computer, you can use a free program called Paint, which is automatically installed on most Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers, to help you identify color values.
To use Paint to identify color values:
1. Take a screen shot of the web page with the colors you want to match, and then save your screen shot to a folder on your local computer or on a network drive.
2. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint.
3. If you are running Windows XP or Windows Vista, complete the following steps:
a. On the File menu, click Open.
b. Browse to your screen shot, and then select your screen shot and click Open.
c. In the left pane, click the Eyedropper icon.
d. Place the Eyedropper icon over the color you want to match to select the color, and then click once to select the color.
e. On the Colors menu, click Edit Colors.
f. Click Define Custom Colors.
Paint displays the values for the color in the Red, Green, and Blue fields.
4. If you are running Windows 7, complete the following steps:
a. Click the Application button next to the Home tab, and then click Open.
b. Browse to your screen shot, and then select your screen shot and click Open.
c. On the Home tab, in Tools, click the Eyedropper icon.
d. Place the Eyedropper icon over the color you want to match to select the color, and then click once to select the color.
e. On the Home tab, in Colors, click Edit Colors.
Paint displays the values for the color in the Red, Green, and Blue fields.
