CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 57. Learn to create outstanding fine art and eye-catching commercial graphics with one powerful tool! CorelDRAW X5: The Official Guide is your comprehensive reference and workbook to get you started designing visually captivating CorelDRAW artwork. Learn, step by step, how to create the illustrations you've imagined, quickly assemble layouts for print and package designs, import and edit photos, master the art of typography and the science of color theory, make 3D scenes from 2D objects, and apply special effects to ordinary pictures. Packed with expert techniques and advice for creating professional-quality art, this. | 524 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Web Safe Colors Although the W3 Consortium publishes standards you might feel a little confined choosing from only 216 colors that are Web Safe. Web Safe by definition means that these colors can be displayed accurately on a VGA monitor without color dithering and that the colors display somewhat consistently whether you have color management on your computer turned on or off. Realistically three people on earth still have a VGA monitor and a video card with less than 10MB of RAM. Additionally designers tend to work with designers and very few of us don t run a color management system color management actually has been at the core of CorelDRAW and Windows since 1995. There s something commendable about playing to the cheap seats but in actuality very few designers bother with Web Safe colors. Every day millions of people post JPEG images to the Web that look just fine and these JPEGs decidedly have colors that fall outside of Web Safe standards. Loading and Creating Custom Palettes Through dialogs the Color docker or an open Color Palette you can manage your color collections. The fastest way is to click the flyout arrow on a Color Palette and then to choose Palette Open from the pop-up menu. This displays the Open Palette dialog where you can browse what s available. The pop-up menu also includes Save Save As Close and New palette commands. The Palette Editor shown in Figure 17-7 is the ideal place to rework custom palettes. In this dialog you can create save edit and manage new and existing palettes using convenient command buttons. While editing palette colors you can also access CorelDRAW s other color features. Refining and redefining your palettes is easy fun and often necessary to keep palettes for client colors up-to-date. Try these steps to appreciate the ease of this powerful dialog. Editing Color Palettes 1. Open the Palette Editor choose Tools Palette Editor. Choose a palette by clicking the drop-down selector open .
