# 02 | Color randomizer ## Exercise 02 **02** | *Using the color randomizer, create a color palette for a digital coloring page of your choice and download the quilt map and color palette.* ***Objective*** | To experiment with the color randomizer to create a color palette that you might not have manually created and to save the chosen color palette by downloading it. ### 01 | Color Randomizer {% hint style="info" %} **TIP:** If you don't want to change the fabric linked to a Color Tag, lock it! To lock a color tag, click on the lock button next to the color tag's edit button. {% endhint %} The Color Randomizer button (

) is a powerful and playful feature in PreQuilt that can help jump start your color palettes. When you click it, PreQuilt will randomly assign solid swatches to all the unlocked color tags. I often use the Color Randomizer as a starting point to find a few randomly assigned color tags that I like and work well together. Then I'll manually change the other color tags until I have a final color palette that I'd like to work with. 1. Choose a quilt you'd like to color on the PreQuilt Market Page. I chose [Retrograde Ombre (King)](https://app.prequilt.com/market/needledownchinup/ombreretrogradientking) by [Hollie Wynne of Needle Down Chin Up](https://www.instagram.com/needledownchinup/): * 2. Click on the **Randomize Colors** button (

) on the [*Toolbar*](https://glossary.prequilt.com/pq-glossary/ts#toolbar) of your selected digital coloring page.

3. Once you find a color swatch that you like for a color tag that you don't want to change, lock it by clicking on the padlock button (

) to the left of the color tag's edit button.

*Locked color tags on digital coloring page - these will not change when Color Randomized*

4. Continue clicking on the **Randomize Colors** button (and locking and unlocking color tags) until you find a color palette that you want to proceed to construction with.

*Final color palette for this digital coloring page*

### 02 | Saving Digital Coloring Page Since you have a subscription to PreQuilt, you might want to save a copy of your digital coloring page to your Quilt Dashboard. 1. Click on the **Clone Quilt** button (

) on the Toolbar.

2. Click on **Clone Current** on the popup window.

3. A copy of the quilt has now been added to your account. You can tell that it has been copied, because a Save button has now been added to the Toolbar.

*Copied digital coloring page (noted by Save button on Toolbar)*

4. Click on the **Save** button (

) to save it to your account.

### 03 | Downloading Quilt Information To make the quilt making process easier, you can download an image of the quilt as well as a copy of the color palette (also called fabric pull) used on the quilt. 1. Click on the **Download Image** button (

) on the Toolbar.

2. A pop-up window will open with the quilt map on the left hand side and the colorway on the right hand side.

3. Click on the **Download the Design** button (on the left side) to download only the quilt map.

*Quilt Map for Retrograde Quilt by Needle Down Chin Up*

4. Click on **Download the Colors** button (on the right side) to download the color swatches used.