Hi all,
Couple of weird colour pallet anomalies. To help describe I have a screengrab. I hope it is not too confusing.
Problem>
There is no brilliant green in any of the pallettes in my Corel Graphics Suite.
The screengrab to the left was in CorelPaint and as you can see there are no brilliant greens or any other pure primaries for that matter.
You can notice the brilliant green in the Channels pallete however, so there is nothing wrong with my monitor settings.
So I made a jpg screengrab for this post, but first decided to open it for a look in PhotoShop and check PhotoShops RGB pallete and 'voila' there is the pure gammut in RGB.
Even stranger was that when I first opened the RGB bitmap layer from CorelDraw X3 (via edit bitmap-Corel Paint) the brilliant green was there in the RGB pallette and I used the green for the foliage. But now the brilliant green has disappeared from the swatch in the RH side of the workspace.
I just want to add a few pure green highlights to the foliage in my image.
I can resign to just doing my colouring in in PhotoShop and any vector stuff in CorelDraw, but that really doesn't solve the problem because Corel is a sophisticated program and I beleive that there must be something wrong somewhere to have such a lame gamut of colours in the pallettes.
Maybe you have turned the proof colours option on -- it's in the view menu and can also be seen at the botom right of the screen:
Hi Harry,
Thanks or quick reply.
I had a look in both Draw & Paint and this icon does not appear at all in the Status Bar. The only thing closest thing I could find is the Color Management tool, but I had a look around inside that and I think I'm barking up the wrong tree.
The Help menu has nothing relevent if I type in the word 'proof" or 'proof*'. see screengrab composite.
Out of interest, do you have the complete color spectrum in your RGB pallet that shows a totally saturated end of the spectrum, ie fluro, like the green I want?
If there are any more clues that would be nice, but otherwise I'll just limp along editing in Photoshop until I install the latest Corelx7 and maybe that will fix the problem.
Ah -- you're using X3 -- which is why you don't have a proof colours option in the status line (but the question was posted in the X7 forum, so my answer was applicable to that).
Colour management changed a lot in X4. I don't remember a lot about X3 but that diagram you have in the bottom right is showing that the monitor is trying to emulate what will print on a CMYK printer:
The printed result from a CMYK printer will always be duller than the RGB colours and the monitor is trying to simulate that. If you want to see the original RGB colours on screen, then you need to click that middle arrow:
Your monitor will then show what you would get the brighter colours that you will get when exporting as an RGB image, rather than the duller colours you would get when printing in CMYK.