Good Morning. I am new to this site and to Corel. We are trying to create a color that is a scanned in fabric swatch from a plaid skirt. We want to create logos with the plaid as a color fill for our catholic school. How can i convert a scanned image into a importable color to add to the color palette??
Try "power clipping" (built-in CDX4 function) the pattern you scanned. Power clip the scanned image into the logo shape or part you need the plaid pattern in to dress it up specifically...
Might give you something you can use in the "pinch" you're in until you get time to explore the possibilities further.
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Myles,Remember to click OK in the dialog, and a new window opens. In that window you name your palette. When this is done, you can open your own colour palette in both CorelDRAW and Corel Photo-Paint. You open the Colour Palette (Swatch Palette) via Window>colour palette>Color Palette Browser. See in atached image.In my attached image you can see 3 different TEST palettes.When you mark a palette you will see it to the right of your screen. Its a Vertical Palette, and it is the default placement of all colour palettes in CorelDRAW and Corel Photo-Paint. Also remember that by hoovering the pick tool/mouse on top of a specific colour,while keep holding down on the colour (swatch), a pop-up colour "dialog" with all the matching colours close to the specific colour will show up. I dont know if you work with CorelDRAW or Photo-Paint with your logo/images. But let say you work in CorelDRAW, do like this.See to that your own custom colour palette is open.
And if you click on your RIGHT button on the mouse, its the Fill tool you Fill objects/shapes/images with colour.And you can fill and draw using the colours with this new colour palette the exact way you would with any other standard colour palette.
<Myles919> wrote in message news:43025@coreldraw.com.. I pulled in the swatch into paint, then told the program to create palette from visable. What was created was several different color blocks, but not the exact plaid. i suspect i am doing something wrong...i simply want to have a color block in my palette that is my plaid fabric swatch. http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/10660/43025.aspx#43025
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Hello,
The two options that have already recommend you ( using Powerclip or creating a custom bitmap pattern fill ) are ideal for what you need.Give them a try.
Personally, when I need to import scanned fabrics for fashion designing I create a custom bitmap pattern and apply it with Interactive fill tool.
For using the fabric as logo texture, then I prefer to use the Powerclip option.
Regards !
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Hi,I wrote about this in a way on my blog, which can be reached via this website as well. Here is the link to the blog. http:// stefanlindblad-english.blogspot.com/2008/12/corel-photo-paint-custom-made-colour.htmlRemember that the actual colour of the garment you scanned into your computer looks like one thing in real life and the light surrounding it. Like daylight or a yellow light bulb in your studio/office/home. And the colour will also react according to your scanner colour settings, and the computer screen and colour settings you choose, and so on. In my example on the blog I show how you can scann something, and then from within Corel Photo-Paint (or CorelDRAW edit bitmap), create a colour swatch, colour palette from it. Go via Window>Color Palette> Create Palette from visable.
Stefan,
thanks for the reply. i really appreciate it. i am under a killer deadline for a grand opening tomorrow and have to get this plaid pattern as a fill a decal we are creating.
i tried to do exactly what your blog said, but i did not get the plaid swatch as a color. I pulled in the swatch into paint, then told the program to create palette from visable. What was created was several different color blocks, but not the exact plaid. i suspect i am doing something wrong...i simply want to have a color block in my palette that is my plaid fabric swatch.
How do you mean it was not the exact colour?When you have your image open and select creat from visable, it does take up the colours in the image, and make blocks of colours. The colours that are in the image you opened in Photo-Paint.
I read your original question again, maybe I missunderstodd your question.When you wrote: "We want to create logos with the plaid as a color fill for our catholic school."How excatly do you like this to lock like in the end?A plaid of fabric could be a cloth/fabric with a scottish vertical/horizontal pattern. With a set of colours.The way I suggest you get all those colours divided into several colours that are in the actual fabric. Dont you whanted the colours like that?
Right, but it is the combination of all the colors in the specific pattern that i need. when i tried to fill in the art with the new palette, did not allow me to select all and then result in the plaid pattern/colors. it only allowed me to select one of the many color blocks which i suppose made up the entire pattern.
i am sorry if i am not completely following you. i can send you the plaid swatch to show you exactly what i mean.
Hi again Myles,When in the Create from visabel dialog, press down/select the first colour, then hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and then press/select the last one, and then all the colours in the dialog will be selected.If there are too many colours in the dialog, colours that just came up of some reason, you can run the image through Effects>Distort>Pixelate, reduce the amount of color pixels/swatches by draging the sliders, and then go via Window>color palette>Create from visable. See my attached image sample.
Thank you very much. this is exactly what i need to do. this is an awsome forum. thank you for putting up with my lack of knowledge/skill.
you guys are all great!!!
This means my suggestion was wrong then?Which one of all these suggestions was the one you wanted?
Colors from a fabric swatch will change from the color you see in daylight to the monitor and then for printing them. My solution would be to take your Pantone swatch book of PMS colors and find a PMS color for each color in the plaid. Even if you are going for four-color process, Corel will convert Process colors to CMYK when you choose that color space when clicking on the color in the color well.
I've had good success with this method. However, there are certain colors which are out of the gammut of CMYK so I'd turn the gammut alarm on.
If you are looking for printing letterhead and envelope, you can still get this printed using spot color so it is probably a good option.