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# 02 | Color randomizer

## <mark style="color:blue;">Exercise 02</mark>

**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.

### <mark style="color:blue;">01 | Color Randomizer</mark>

{% hint style="info" %} <mark style="color:blue;">**TIP:**</mark> 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 (<img src="/files/T93fypVn7gpMF37ftwQI" alt="" data-size="line">) 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.&#x20;

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/):
   * <https://app.prequilt.com/market/needledownchinup/ombreretrogradientking>
2. Click on the <mark style="color:blue;">**Randomize Colors**</mark> button (<img src="/files/ypQQLRV58UK6B7SfAIXh" alt="" data-size="line">) on the [*Toolbar*](https://glossary.prequilt.com/pq-glossary/ts#toolbar) of your selected digital coloring page.

   <figure><img src="/files/Psrsf91J2FwLsHy9fFlf" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Designer's original colorway</em></p></figcaption></figure>
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 (<img src="/files/gBky0fgcRDpMiTZogaK0" alt="" data-size="line">) to the left of the color tag's edit button.

   <div align="center"><figure><img src="/files/tAK2WKjHrsNlxFYlhGOW" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Color Tag G - unlocked</em></p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/nFbikdnIvfUoNT7BEHFc" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Color Tag G - locked</em></p></figcaption></figure></div>

   <figure><img src="/files/LWQBPm5Xx3ZxR6qrPTQ8" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Locked color tags on digital coloring page - these will not change when Color Randomized</em></p></figcaption></figure>
4. Continue clicking on the <mark style="color:blue;">**Randomize Colors**</mark> button (and locking and unlocking color tags) until you find a color palette that you want to proceed to construction with.

   <figure><img src="/files/vgQX3IWqu36ZChmBX4y6" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Final color palette for this digital coloring page</em></p></figcaption></figure>

### <mark style="color:blue;">02 | Saving Digital Coloring Page</mark>

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 <mark style="color:blue;">**Clone Quilt**</mark> button (<img src="/files/nxuj4H5k3gXpibCJhVSG" alt="" data-size="line">) on the Toolbar.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/tYD9VEpEUAnsRFOA7pDa" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
2. Click on <mark style="color:blue;">**Clone Current**</mark> on the popup window.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/1qtlNjKXVmkZ6KarTNkd" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
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.

   <figure><img src="/files/Dq81ZcXD6mEydMHthHRO" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Copied digital coloring page (noted by Save button on Toolbar)</em></p></figcaption></figure>
4. Click on the <mark style="color:blue;">**Save**</mark> button (<img src="/files/V2sTYqOkwAbUnVrwToC4" alt="" data-size="line">) to save it to your account.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/t7yEMqmR0GSdl4FALuJq" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>

### <mark style="color:blue;">03 | Downloading Quilt Information</mark>

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 <mark style="color:blue;">**Download Image**</mark> button (<img src="/files/wsuv0Cd9ynjvLS80lKQ1" alt="" data-size="line">) on the Toolbar.

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/INDQCWtrHuAWIO7UuOmU" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
2. A pop-up window will open with the quilt map on the left hand side and the colorway on the right hand side.

   <figure><img src="/files/WsyVkoCe81hrEKe44IAG" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Download pop-up window</em></p></figcaption></figure>
3. Click on the <mark style="color:blue;">**Download the Design**</mark> button (on the left side) to download only the quilt map.

   <figure><img src="/files/k3pdTFBEGwLVxgulEsAt" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Quilt Map for Retrograde Quilt by Needle Down Chin Up</em></p></figcaption></figure>
4. Click on <mark style="color:blue;">**Download the Colors**</mark> button (on the right side) to download the color swatches used.

   <figure><img src="/files/u2BTDoZxWmj8HWzd4NDY" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Color palette for this version</em></p></figcaption></figure>