GETTING TO KNOW CMYKWritten by Blur Loterina
You may wonder why colors are grouped into different modes. And no, there’s no racial discrimination involved. For nature of design to flow in an organized manner, there are primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors, etc. If you are not familiar with family of colors, here is one way of understanding how they are grouped and how they are used.The most common color groups are RGB, HSB (Hue, Saturation and Brightness), CMYK and CIE L*A*B. Vector and bitmap graphics are always associated with RGB and CMYK, so we must familiarize ourselves with these modes. CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The letter K was taken from last letter of color. The first letter was not used because there are other colors that start with letter b. in this way, confusion of colors will be eliminated. CMYK colors are inks used in printing process to produce full-color photographs and designs. In principle of graphics design, these colors are called subtractive colors. When you combine two of any of first three colors (cyan, magenta and yellow), it will produce three primary colors (red, green and blue), called additive colors. In other words, CMY is product of combining RGB and RGB is product of combining CMY. When CMY colors are mixed you will have black. But there are still other colors produced from CMYK.
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Corel Draw Version 4.0 is said to be most ambitious computer software. What makes it ambitious is that it promises to be ultimate tool for any computer graphics design and that it claims to be a bug-free software. The promotion was impressive but it appeared to have disappointed many CorelDraw users. Many thought that Corel Draw version 7 will not be of any difference. Surprisingly, it gave them another dose of hope, a new and better software to give them professional-quality logos, special effects and illustrations. This version focuses on interface, speed and maintenance. It is composed of Corel Photo Paint 7 and Corel Dream 3d7. One of features included is Template Wizard script. This allows you to create templates from saved files, reducing time wasted in making templates. It also enables you to work on templates you created on other Corel draw versions, just add templates on your template wizard. New template samples as well as templates for Paper Direct papers are included. There is Welcoming Screen that explains how vector images differ from bitmap images and how you can export them. Customizing keyboards and tools are also discussed. The purpose of color manager is to instruct user how to manipulate color producing devices so that it will work well with Corel software. Also, there are shortcut keys and management tools for saving and organizing files.
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