CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 Guidebook

Chapter 7: Color Management | 97

Working with color profiles

To ensure color accuracy, a color management
system needs ICC-compliant profiles for
monitors, input devices, external monitors,
output devices, and documents.

• Monitor color profiles define the color
  space that your monitor uses to display
  document colors. CorelDRAW and
  Corel PHOTO-PAINT use the primary
  monitor profile that is assigned by the
  operating system.


• Input device color profiles are used by
  input devices such as scanners and digital
  cameras. These color profiles define which
  colors can be captured by specific input
  devices.


• Display color profiles include monitor
  profiles that are not associated with your
  monitor in the operating system. These
  color profiles are especially useful for soft-
  proofing documents for monitors that are
  not connected to your computer.


• Output device color profiles define the
  color space of output devices such as
  desktop printers and printing presses. The
  color management system uses these
  profiles to map document colors to the
  colors of the output device.


• Document color profiles define the
  RGB, CMYK, and grayscale colors of a
  document. Documents that contain color
  profiles are known as “tagged
  documents.”

Many color profiles are installed with
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite or can be
generated with profiling software.
Manufacturers of monitors, scanners, digital
cameras, and printers also provide color
profiles.

Installing and loading color profiles

If you don’t have the necessary color profile,

you can install it, or you can load it within the

application. Installing a color profile adds it to

the Color folder of the operating system;

loading a color profile adds it to the Color

folder of the application. CorelDRAW Graphics

Suite can access color profiles from both Color

folders.

To install a color profile from Windows®

Explorer, right-click a color profile, and click

Install profile.

To load a color profile from the Default

color management settings dialog box,

choose Load color profiles from the

RGB, CMYK, or Grayscale list box in the

Default color settings area.

Loading a color profile

Assigning color profiles

If the document has a color profile that is not

suitable for the required destination, you can

assign a different color profile to the

document. For example, if the document is

intended to be displayed on the Web or to

beprinted on a desktop printer, you should

make sure that sRGB is the document RGB

profile. If the document is destined for print

production, the Adobe® RGB (1998) profile is

a better choice, because it has a larger gamut