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Chapter 7: Color Management
This chapter answers some basic questions
about color management and introduces you
to the color management features of
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6.
Understanding color management
This section provides answers to the following
commonly asked questions about color
management:
- Why don’t colors match?
- What is color management?
- Why do I need color management?
- How do I get started with color
management? - Is my monitor displaying the correct
colors? - Should I assign a color profile or convert
colors to a color profile? - What is a rendering intent?
Why don’t colors match?
Different tools can be used during the creation
and sharing of a document. For example, you
can start with a file that was created in another
application, or you can import an image that
was captured by a digital camera or acquired
from a scanner. After finishing the document,
you can share it with a colleague by either
printing or e-mailing it.
Each tool in your workflow has its own method
of interpreting color. In addition, each tool has
its own range of available colors, called a color
space, which is a set of numbers that define
how colors are represented.In other words, when defining and interpreting
color, each tool speaks a unique language.
Consider a color in the color space of your
digital camera: a vivid blue RGB color with the
values Red = 0, Green = 0, and Blue =255.
This color may appear as a different color in the
color space of your monitor. In addition, the
color space of your printer may not contain a
match for this color. As a result, when your
document moves through the workflow, this
vivid blue color gets lost in the translation and
is not accurately reproduced. A color
management system is designed to improve
the communication of color in the workflow so
that the color of the output matches your
intended color.Example of a document workflow