COLOR SELECTOR FOR DESKTOP PUBLISHING

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for color selection in a desktop publishing application. A color selection technique includes receiving a selection of an image, automatically sampling a color from a pixel of the selected image, and adding the sampled color to a color swatch in a graphical user interface. The sampled color may be the predominant color in the image (e.g., the color that appears in the greatest number of pixels), or the sampled color may be the darkest or lightest color in the image. In another embodiment, several colors (e.g., two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine or ten) are sampled from different pixels of the selected image, and some or all of the sampled colors are added to the color swatch. A designer can then select the sampled color(s) from the color swatch and apply the selected color(s) to one or more elements of a layout.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented desktop publishing method comprising:
receiving a plurality of digital images associated with a page layout, each of the digital images comprising a plurality of pixels; sampling different colors from at least one of the pixels; generating a multi-state object (MSO) corresponding to an element of the page layout having at least one of the different colors, the MSO having a plurality of states; and mapping each of the different sampled colors to different states of the MSO such that the MSO displays at least one of the sampled colors while the respective digital image is displayed in the page layout.