Apple Color 1.0 - Manual (Page 72)

72 Chapter 4 Importing and Managing Projects and Media
Creating and Opening Projects
When you first run Color, you’re presented with a dialog with which you can open an
existing project or create a new one.
To create a new project when Color is first opened:
1 Open Color.
2 When the Projects window opens, choose a location for the project.
By default, the Create Project dialog opens to the Default Project Directory you chose
when you first launched Color.
3 Type a name for the project in the File field, and click Save.
A new project is created in the directory you chose, and is opened.
To create a new project while Color is running:
1 If necessary, save the current project.
Color can only have one project open at a time, so creating a new project will close the
currently open project.
2 Choose File > New (Command-N).
3 Choose a name and location for the project from the Create Project dialog, and click Save.
An empty project appears, ready for use.
To open an existing project, do one of the following:
m Double-click a Color project file in the Finder.
m Choose File > Open (Command-O), choose a project from the Projects window, and
click Open.
Color can only have one project open at a time, so opening a second project closes the
one that was originally open.
Saving Projects and Archives
The essential process of saving files has been divided into two tasks: saving updates to
the project file itself and saving archives of the project file.
Saving a project works the same way in Color as it does in any other application you’ve
used. As with any application, you should save early and often as you work.
To save a project:
m Choose File > Save (Command-S).
Note: Whenever you manually save a project, an archive is also automatically saved
with the date and time as its name.