Color Types
Mostly we will be using two Color types in Corel Draw.
What are these two color types?
RGB
If you are reading this, you are reading an RGB display via your computer. RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue. The three colors that create every other tone of color that is visible on your screen. There is no black or white ‘color’. Neither is there yellow or purple. They are all combinations of red, green and blue. White is the sum of all three colors while black is the absence of all three colors.
While each monitor is capable of displaying a wide range of colors, there are still inconsistencies between computers.
CMYK
In four-color process (CMYK) printing, primary colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) are mixed together to produce most of the colors that you see in normal magazines and color books. While there are six-color color spaces, these are much less common and are used for specific printing techniques.
CYMK is what the vast majority of commercial printers do, although there is a wide range of options. Images and artwork targeted for reproduction in a CMYK color space must be properly formulated to print correctly. If you’ve had the misfortune of trying to get an accurate print from an RGB image, you’ve just had a glimpse into the technical realm of 4CP (four color process) printing. To further confuse the issue, printers will often refer to their presses as 4, 5, or 6 color presses. While this makes sense to print designers, it is often lost on other customers. These numbers refer to the maximum numbers of colors that can be run in a single pass. For example, a tri-fold brochure could be designed to be printed in CMYK, plus a spot varnish, plus a metallic spot color. This ‘job’ is known as a six-color job since there are six colors of inks that will be run in a single pass.
There are many types of colore palettes on Corel Draw, but these two will be used mostly.