How to Work with Colors Correctly in CorelDRAW

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One of the most confusing aspects of working with CorelDRAW is choosing the right color for our design. There are various color profiles that can help us to choose the right type of color for different systems and display. Let us look through some of the important terms you need to know about color profiles.

CMYK Colors

CMYK (stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) is used to specify document for printing purposes. Each component is represented as a percentage (0 to 100). If you leave all the values of Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow, you get a Black Color. If you allow them at 0, you get a White color. Black is more neutral, darker, less expensive and sharper result for printing.

CMYK colors

RGB Colors

The components of RGB are Red, Blue, and Green. White is a product of the combination of these colors at their highest intensities. At their lowest intensities, combining the three colors will produce the black color. The RGB color mode is produced from blends of red, blue and green to produce various colors for monitor and screen displays.

RGB Color Scheme (kisspng.com)

Grayscale Color Mode

If you change a color from color to grayscale, it converts to black and white. The colors are defined by their lightness with values from 0 to 255. The RGB colors have the same values for the three colors.

Grayscale scheme

HSB Colors

HSB colors are also known as HSV. HSB stands for Hue, Saturation, and Brightness. Hue is expressed as a degree and it is the pigment of the color. Red is 0 degree, Yellow is 60 degree, Blue is 240 degrees etc. 

Saturation is the intensity of a color. It is represented as a percentage with 100 percent signifying the highest intensity of the color. Brightness is the state of reflection of light by an object. It is also expressed as a percentage from 0 to 100.

Color depth is the maximum number of colors in an image. It is determined by bit depth. If an image has many bit depths, it will contain many accurate colors. e.g. an 8-bit gif has 256 colors while a 24-bit jpeg has 16 million colors. The type of monitor you have will also determine the number of colors displayed on the screen. For example, an 8-bit monitor will only display 256 colors even when the image is 24-bit (16 million colors)

How to Choose Color using the Palette in CorelDRAW

With the color palette, you can choose the color palette you want to use for your design. You have to select an object on the document first. Then double-click on the Fill button on the status bar

In the Edit fill box, choose Uniform fill

Click the Palettes list

Move the sliders to choose a range of colors. 

Then choose a color from the displayed colors.

You can choose a color using the color viewer. You have to select the object first. Double click the Fill button. In the Edit option, click Uniform fill. Click the Models tab and choose any color model from the list. 

Choose a color viewer from the list. Move the color slider and choose any color from the color selection area

• You can bring the color viewer to your working screen by going to Window > Dockers > Color.

• With the Color Eyedropper tool, you can sample color from an object in the document or even in the desktop. Choose the Color Eyedropper tool from the Toolbox. Then go to the property panel and choose whether to sample from your desktop or from a single pixel, 2x2 pixel area etc. You can use the sampled color to fill an object or outline by hovering over the object till the eyedropper icon changes to solid color swatch. 

When working with RGB colors, you can input the color value if you have it already. Go to Window > Dockers > Color. Choose RGB in the list box. Then input the RGB value in the box. The value for red is #ff0000 

1. The Document Palette is automatically opened as we start a document. It is at the left bottom portion of the page in our document. New colors are added as we work. You can sample colors from the object using the eyedropper tool. Hold CTRL while sampling to add many colors. 

If you drag an image into the document palette, you will see a dialog box that will ask you to specify the number of colors to sample from the image.

• If you click the flyout from the Document palette, you can add color from a selected object, from a document and Automatically Update. You can delete or edit color. To reset the color  palette, choose Palette > Reset