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How to make YS Elvan always on top?
From the Main Menu, select Stay on Top.

What is super minimizing?
Super minimizing is basically resizing the window to its titles size. Every window of YS Elvan has this feature. It is especially useful when used with stay on top feaute.

How can I add colors to color list?
Just drag and drop colors from a colored object. It may be the colors of the Color Wheel as well as the colors of test layouts.

How can I darken or brighten a color?
If you want to darken the main color, decrease the L value. If you want to brighten it, increase the L value.

How can I make a color websafe?
Just click the "Make websafe" button.

How can I show more colors on color list?
Click the "List" button and select "Small Color List".

How to change Color Wheel style?
Right click the main color and select "Load Color Wheel Style". Select a Color Wheel style from the list.

How to export color list?
Click the "Export" button. Select the format that you want to export.

How can I use ACO files in Photoshop?
1. Open Adobe Photoshop.
2. Choose "Swatches" from the "Window" menu.
3. From the Swatches palette menu, click "Load Swatches"
4. Select the ACO file that you have exported from YS Elvan.

How can I quickly copy color values?
Right-click the "Copy" button. A list of color value formats will be displayed. If you do this while more than one colors selected form the Color List, then color values of those colors will be copied.

How to delete colors?
Just select the color, and press the "Delete" key.

Why Color History disappear automatically?
It is an option for the Color History to automatically disappear. If you don't want this to happen, then right click the Color History and select "Auto Close".

How can I edit test layouts?
Select a layout to start with. Click the "Edit Layout" button. You can move, resize, add, edit and delete objects.

How can I make the objects snap to grid?
While in layout editing mode, click the "Advanced" button and check "Snap to Grid". You can also change the grid size here.

How can I change the Web Preview layout?
To change colors, just drag and drop a color over a part or a text. To change text, right click on it. To save and load layouts, use "Save" and "Load" buttons.

What is the difference between BMP and WMF?
BMP (Bitmap) is raster image, it means, when you resize it, its quality may decrease. WMF (Windows Metafile) is a vector based format, it will not lose any quality when resized. You must copy color swatches as WMF if you want to paste them to a vector based application, like Macromedia Flash.