OK, I decided to start from scratch and this time it renders with the color. Go figure... I did it exactly the same way. There are only three or four steps! Oh well, thanks for responding.

The only place I've found to set anything related to Render is in the Export menu, so I checked that and it is set to jpg; I did an export and the exported image is also monochrome, same as the Render command produces.
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I just selected Render as the instructions said;
I can't find any setting in Preferences or anywhere else on where to set the 'Render To'

Thanks for the help so quickly!
How do I set the Render To?

I just did Tutorial step 1 and filled my circle with a blue color and rendered it; it renders in black and white; anybody know why?