Book Image

OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

Book Image

OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

Overview of this book

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why settle for anything less? Creating good visualizations to substantiate your ideas is essential in today's corporate environment. Use OmniGraffle's remarkably powerful and flexible features to get your diagrams right. Although fun to use, it can get cumbersome to find out exactly how to get what you want.This book will teach you how to make stunning diagrams without spending much time and energy. No matter if you have never used OmniGraffle, or if you are using it on a daily basis, this book will teach you how to get the most out of this splendid diagramming tool. It will first teach you the basics of the program and then extend your knowledge to a higher level.The book will teach you to make eye-popping visuals using a lot of useful, step-by-step examples. It begins with covering concepts that beef up your basics of using OmniGraffle. The earlier chapters will teach you to prepare dazzling diagrams from scratch with the many stencils, shapes, and fonts that are included in OmniGraffle. As your understanding of OmniGraffle broadens, the book will go even deeper to explain the less understood features of the software. It also covers some handy time-saving techniques such as workspaces and keyboard shortcuts.By the time you reach the end of this book, you will have mastered OmniGraffle to turn your ideas into diagrams.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
9
OmniGraffle workspaces
Index

The color picker in detail


The color picker consists of five sections.

The Color Picker Selector lets you choose the various ways to pick colors.

From left to right you can choose between:

  • Color Wheel

  • Color Sliders

  • Color Palette

  • Image Palettes

  • Crayon Palette

If you are using OmniGraffle Professional, the last selection lets you choose between various patterns.

This section is divided into two tools.

The magnifying glass can be clicked and then used anywhere on your screen to pick a color.

The area to the right of the magnifying glass is the Current Selected Color.

You can drag a color from this tool and onto parts of your shape as you did in the previous section.

The next section on the color picker is dependent on which tool in the Color Picker Selector you have chosen.

From top left the selection tools are as follows:

  • The Color Wheel

  • The Color Sliders

  • The Color Palette

  • The Image Palettes

  • The Crayon Palette

  • The Pattern Palette

The Pattern Palette is only available...