III.Designing Your Artwork
By picking colors from the ColorSure Palette, you will be able to consistently reproduce colors in a reliable manner. To assist you in designing your artwork, PowerDriver installs three palettes: two for Adobe products and one for Corel products. These colors match the palette that is printed from within PowerDriver.
•To open the ColorSure Palette in Corel 9,10, 11, 12, X3, or X4 choose: Window Color Palette Open Palette. Select the file “ColorSure Palette Corel.”
•To open the ColorSure Palette in Illustrator, choose Window Swatch Libraries Other Library. Navigate to where it was installed when you installed PowerDriver: C:\Program Files\Sawgrass\PowerDriver\Adobe Illustrator and hit Open. For easier access to the Palette,
•To open the ColorSure Palette in Adobe PhotoShop, choose the Swatches Palette, click the option arrow on the palette, choose Replace Swatches and pick the “ColorSure PDIQXGv1.aco” file.
HINT
After you have the ColorSure Palette loaded into CorelDraw, move the cursor over each color. As the cursor hovers over each different color,
IV. Using Color Finder
After printing and transferring the ColorSure Palette, you see that you have an array of colors to work with. There will be times, however, when the color you need is not included in the ColorSure Palette. This is where the Color Finder Tool comes in handy.
The Color Finder Tool allows you to start with a specific color (e.g. navy blue) and find similar colors in the same family by adding and subtracting up to three colors (RGB) called ‘Step Colors.’ For example, starting with navy blue with an RGB value of 6,6,85 and choosing two step colors (e.g. blue and red) would expand the original navy blue in four directions (more blue, less blue, more red, and less red). This expanded color chart
– specific to a particular substrate and printing speed – prints directly to your printer.
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