Good Morning. I am new to this site and to Corel. We are trying to create a color that is a scanned in fabric swatch from a plaid skirt. We want to create logos with the plaid as a color fill for our catholic school. How can i convert a scanned image into a importable color to add to the color palette??
Hi,I wrote about this in a way on my blog, which can be reached via this website as well. Here is the link to the blog. http:// stefanlindblad-english.blogspot.com/2008/12/corel-photo-paint-custom-made-colour.htmlRemember that the actual colour of the garment you scanned into your computer looks like one thing in real life and the light surrounding it. Like daylight or a yellow light bulb in your studio/office/home. And the colour will also react according to your scanner colour settings, and the computer screen and colour settings you choose, and so on. In my example on the blog I show how you can scann something, and then from within Corel Photo-Paint (or CorelDRAW edit bitmap), create a colour swatch, colour palette from it. Go via Window>Color Palette> Create Palette from visable.
Stefan,
thanks for the reply. i really appreciate it. i am under a killer deadline for a grand opening tomorrow and have to get this plaid pattern as a fill a decal we are creating.
i tried to do exactly what your blog said, but i did not get the plaid swatch as a color. I pulled in the swatch into paint, then told the program to create palette from visable. What was created was several different color blocks, but not the exact plaid. i suspect i am doing something wrong...i simply want to have a color block in my palette that is my plaid fabric swatch.
How do you mean it was not the exact colour?When you have your image open and select creat from visable, it does take up the colours in the image, and make blocks of colours. The colours that are in the image you opened in Photo-Paint.
I read your original question again, maybe I missunderstodd your question.When you wrote: "We want to create logos with the plaid as a color fill for our catholic school."How excatly do you like this to lock like in the end?A plaid of fabric could be a cloth/fabric with a scottish vertical/horizontal pattern. With a set of colours.The way I suggest you get all those colours divided into several colours that are in the actual fabric. Dont you whanted the colours like that?
Right, but it is the combination of all the colors in the specific pattern that i need. when i tried to fill in the art with the new palette, did not allow me to select all and then result in the plaid pattern/colors. it only allowed me to select one of the many color blocks which i suppose made up the entire pattern.
i am sorry if i am not completely following you. i can send you the plaid swatch to show you exactly what i mean.
Try "power clipping" (built-in CDX4 function) the pattern you scanned. Power clip the scanned image into the logo shape or part you need the plaid pattern in to dress it up specifically...
Might give you something you can use in the "pinch" you're in until you get time to explore the possibilities further.
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Hi again Myles,When in the Create from visabel dialog, press down/select the first colour, then hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and then press/select the last one, and then all the colours in the dialog will be selected.If there are too many colours in the dialog, colours that just came up of some reason, you can run the image through Effects>Distort>Pixelate, reduce the amount of color pixels/swatches by draging the sliders, and then go via Window>color palette>Create from visable. See my attached image sample.