Install, load, and embed color profiles

To install a color profile

To load a color profile

To embed a color profile


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

Finding color profiles

Many color profiles are installed with your application or can be generated with profiling software. Manufacturers of monitors, scanners, digital cameras, and printers also provide color profiles. In addition, you can access color profiles from websites such as:

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.

Embedding color profiles

When you save or export a document to a file format that supports color profiles, the color profiles are embedded in the file by default. Embedding a color profile attaches the color profile to the document to ensure that the same colors you used are shared with anyone who views or prints the document.

To install a color profile Back to Top
To load a color profile Back to Top

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After you load a color profile, you can also access it from the Color Proofing docker, Print dialog box, and Document tab of the Color Management settings dialog box.

Note that you can load a color profile of any color mode from any list box: RGB profile, CMYK profile, or Grayscale profile. However, after you load the profile, you can access it only from the list box of the respective color mode. For example, you can load an RGB color profile from the CMYK profile list box, but you can access the profile only from the RGB profile list box.

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You can also load a color profile from the Document tab of the Color Management settings dialog box.

To embed a color profile Back to Top

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When you save or export a file to the CorelDRAW (CDR) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file format, you can embed up to three color profiles.

Embedding a color profile increases the file size of a document. To avoid increasing the file size unnecessarily, CorelDRAW embeds only color profiles for colors that are used in the document. For example, if your document contains only RGB objects, only the RGB color profile will be embedded.

The features documented in the Help are available in the full version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019. Some features may not be available in this version of the product.


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