So I want to do a simple gold-yellow-gold-yellow-gold fountain fill in X7.
In X6, I can just choose the Gold preset and change accordingly.
In X7, I'm lost.First, there is no more presets. Second, when I try to choose the node color, there is no standard colors with names to choose from (Gold in this case).If I try to pick the color (e.g. Yellow) from the color palette, the default color palette is PANTONE Solid Coated instead of CMYK.And there is no more Edge pad option.
That is ridiculously troublesome for a simple task.
Kursad Cakir said:Hi Michael, 2. You can access to the CMYK color selector by clicking to "show color viewers" button.
Both the "Show color sliders" and "Show color viewer" are CMYK, but the "Show color palettes" is PANTONE by default.
MT Studio said:If I change the model in Color Palette from PANTONE to CMYK, it will only remains as CMYK for this particular object. If I draw another shape and repeat the same steps, the Color Palette will still be in PANTONE.
I think that is probably the way that it is for everybody -- but not everybody is following that particular sequence of steps. It probably should be remembering the palette selection, but with X7.3 already announced for December the chances of that fix being in it are very small.
There is one thing you can do already though. Notice there is an eyedropper in the edit fill dialogue. Even when the palette is set to pantone, you can use that eyedropper to pick a colour from the main CMYK palette on the right. The colour does come in as the CMYK value, despite highlighting a matching colour in the pantone palette.
Or if you want a solid fill, you don't even need to open the fill dialogue, Just use the eyedropper from the main toolbox and drag the colour from the main CMYK palette to the object.
harryLondon said: I think that is probably the way that it is for everybody -- but not everybody is following that particular sequence of steps.
I think that is probably the way that it is for everybody -- but not everybody is following that particular sequence of steps.
When you say it should be the way for everybody, do you mean that most Corel users are working with PANTONE colors instead of CMYK?While I don't think so, but even if it is, then why would they set the default for Color Viewer, Color Wheel and Color Slider as CMYK but only the color palette as PANTONE? And this does not happen in X6 or earlier.
harryLondon said: It probably should be remembering the palette selection
It probably should be remembering the palette selection
I expect when the default Primary Color Mode is set to CMYK, then every color palette related feature should be in CMYK.Or, at least, when I change the Fill tool's color palette from the default PANTONE to CMYK, it should remember that for all other objects in the same document.
harryLondon said: There is one thing you can do already though. Notice there is an eyedropper in the edit fill dialogue. Even when the palette is set to pantone, you can use that eyedropper to pick a colour from the main CMYK palette on the right. The colour does come in as the CMYK value, despite highlighting a matching colour in the pantone palette. Or if you want a solid fill, you don't even need to open the fill dialogue, Just use the eyedropper from the main toolbox and drag the colour from the main CMYK palette to the object.
That is a workaround, but that would require the Default Palette to be fully expanded, because once you launch the Fill tool, you can't expand it if it's showing the default first column only.
Btw, I do few testing and find out the behaviour as below:
1 (a) If I draw a shape with no fill, launch the Fill tool, choose uniform fill, the defaults are: Color Viewer : CMYK Color Wheel : CMYK Color Palette : PANTONE
(b) If I draw a shape with no fill, launch the Fill tool, choose fountain fill, change the node color, the defaults are: Color Slider : CMYK Color Viewer : CMYK Color Palette : PANTONE
2 (a) If I draw a shape, fill it with a color from the Default Palette (CMYK), launch the Fill tool, choose uniform fill, the defaults are:
Color Viewer : CMYK Color Wheel : CMYK Color Palette : CMYK
(b) If I draw a shape, fill it with a color from the Default Palette (CMYK), launch the Fill tool, choose fountain fill, change the node color, the defaults are: Color Slider : CMYK Color Viewer : CMYK Color Palette : PANTONE
Ok I'm most likely screwing this up but no matter how I do this I can access all the colors supported by Corel, spot color, CMYK, RGB or what ever with a simple click. Spot colors are there with no issues. As I said I bet I'm screwing up the process.
Hi David,
The issue is not the accessibility, but the default.
Just in case I used the wrong terminologies, here is another comparison between X6 and X7 of the issue I'm referring to:
In X7 I get what you get in X6
Will do as soon as I get some time.