Dear Corel users
Every time I open a new empty document in CorelDRAW 2018 and draw a line or produce other graphics CMYK is chosen as default. I want RGB however (as recommended by Foster Coburn in a video). I am not making graphics for Prepress. It is mostly for online viewing and occasionally output on simple laser printer. I have set Primary Color Mode to RGB via the Default Color Management Settings dialog. The strange thing is that despite my settings graphics are created with CMYK. Then I opened on old file I created a couple of years ago. Inside that file graphics are always created in RGB. The Document Color Settings (under Color Management) are exact the same in the two documents. I am very confused. I hope someone can help me figure out what is wrong and how to make the RGB settings permanently for every new document!
Kind regards,
Erik V.
When I choose Tools|Color Management|Default tab, then change the "Primary color mode" to RGB" and click OK, the color mode on all new documents is RGB. Is that the outcome you're seeking?
Thanks to both of you. To Eskimo: I don't receive a dialog at all when creating a new document. It is just created right away - I assume from the Default Color Management settings and the other Documents settings in Tools > Option. Anyway my files say Primary Color Mode RGB, so that does not seem to be the problem. When trying File > Document Properties the dialog says Primary Color Mode RGB in both of my files. Further down the list I recognized a difference, though:
Apparently the old file has RGB as Objects and Color Models, whereas the new one uses CMYK. But where do I make those changes? (don't remember how I did earlier )
Erik
When a new object is created in a document, the properties depend on the Default Object Properties - in that particular document - for that particular type of object. The Default Object Properties are styles, and they can be viewed (and changed) in the Object Styles docker. In this screenshot, we are looking at the Outline properties for new Graphic objects:
If the Default Object Properties are changed, then they will apply to new objects created in that document.
The Default Object Properties for a particular type of object can be set as the default for new documents by right-clicking on the name of the style, then clicking, "Set as New Document Default":
That's not the only way to set new object defaults, but it is a way to do it selectively - only changing the new document defaults for that particular type of object.
Because these are styles, they can be imported into / exported from a document. So, it is easy to load a specific set of preferred Default Object Properties into an existing document.
Thank you Eskimo. That was just what I was looking for! I will write it down for future use.