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High-end color support for interactive blend and contour effects in CorelDRAW The applications and features described in this tutorial require or newer to be installed. If you work with high-end color, you'll be pleased to know that both CorelDRAW® and Corel PHOTO-PAINT® include high-end color features that can help you unleash your wildest design and illustration energy. These new tools and resources also let you accurately reproduce your ideas in your digital workflow and confidently meet the most demanding print production requirements. With these advanced features in CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT, you can include spot color inks in interactive blend and contour effects and be confident that your effects will be faithfully reproduced in print. Take this behind-the-scenes peek at interactive blend and contour effects in CorelDRAW, and you'll see what I mean.

Advanced color support for interactive blend effects CorelDRAW has long allowed users to work with spot color inks. Even special fill types, such as fountain fills, have supported the use of spot color inks for advanced high-end printing. Now, CorelDRAW users can enjoy improved results when harnessing spot colors in interactive blend and contour effects. In earlier versions of CorelDRAW, the use of interactive blend and contour effects brought considerable creative freedom to users facing a wide range of design and illustration challenges. Often, though, specialized print operations involving spot color reproduction required imaginative and technically complex workarounds to emulate in print the same visual effects seen on the screen. After all, not everyone works only in RGB color. The newest advanced capabilities for spot colors come into play with the use of dynamically linked interactive blend and contour effects.

When you apply these interactive effects to an object, you create a new object that maintains a dynamic link to the original object, which becomes the control object. Changes to the control object automatically influence the properties of the dynamic objects created.

Let's consider a simple blending example in which spot color inks are applied to two objects, and a blend effect is created between the two objects. During the blending, the properties of the control objects are preserved, and the properties of the dynamically linked objects create a multistep progression between the two control objects. The object shapes are created according to the blend effect properties, but the linked object colors are precisely calculated percentages of the original spot colors. In the background, CorelDRAW automatically applies overprint properties to the objects to support high-end printing.

Let's examine these effects more closely to see the advanced object-engineering involved. In the illustration below, a four-step blend effect is applied to two characters, which creates a series of four intermediary character weights. The control object on the left includes a 100 percent PANTONE® 152 orange fill and a 100 percent PANTONE 485 red outline. The control object on the right includes a 100 percent PANTONE 606 fill and a 100 percent PANTONE 471 brown outline. The blend objects form a four-step progression between the two shapes. Sony Pcg 6n2m Manual there. Each blend step that CorelDRAW produces in the effect is a unique combination of objects.

Dismantled, each step can include four separate objects: two objects that represent each of the spot color fills and two objects that represent each of the spot color outlines (see below). Closer examination reveals that the values of the spot color inks are varied, with tint values in a progression between the blended object colors, as shown below. Objects representing the blend object in the foreground are automatically applied overprints of the fill and outline. (Note that color acceleration options available with blend effects affect the spot color ink percentage values of the composite objects in the final effect.) To examine the results of applying spot colors to objects in a blend effect, follow these steps: • Click any object-creation tool in CorelDRAW, and create two simple shapes.

• Click Window >Color Palettes, and select a fixed ink palette, such as a PANTONE spot color ink palette. • From the spot color ink palette, apply different spot colors for the fill and outline properties of each of your two new objects. (Choose spot colors from only a single palette type.) • In the toolbox, click the Interactive Blend tool. This tool is grouped with the other interactive tools (see below). • Create a default blend by dragging from the center of one object to the other object. If you want, you can adjust the property bar controls to customize the blend properties. • Click the Pick tool, right-click the blend portion of the effect, and choose Break Blend Group Apart from the pop-up menu (see below).