Fountain Fill ISsues

ashtonk87
over 9 years ago

Hello! I am new to using Corel Draw and I am trying to figure some stuff out.. what I'm trying to do is create a custom background fill.   

This is what I'm getting. in my custom fill settings I'm using black at the left, dark purple in the middle and purple at tthe right.

What i'm TRYING to get is something like this :

 

Any idea on why there would be such a discrepancy?  it's very frustrating. I tried switching my corel to the RGB instead CMYK colour settings but it wont let me switch it for some reason. Sigh... all I want is a pretty background without fading grey and dark rings of purple....

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  • 0 over 9 years ago
    As Chris Wills said you have to do the transition between your color in center to a darker color but it needs not only K /black/ because in CMYK the K color or 100% black not contain any other colors in it so the result is like yours. But if you mix the basic color in center with black in percents you need you will have a nice gradient. For example if you want to make a gradient from red to black you have to start with 100% magenta + 100% yellow /it's actually red in CMYK/ and at the end of the gradient to put the same color + black /30 or 40, 50 even 100% if you need/.
    In RGB it's different and you have to read a little for understanding additive adn substractive color modes, how they behave and when you need to use them. It's not a good idea to work in RGB if you need to print in CMYK, or to work in CMYK when you need something for web for example.
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