Creating and applying color styles

You can create color styles from the colors of an existing object or from scratch. When you create a color style, the new color style is saved to the active document and to the Color styles palette.

After you create a color style, you can apply it to objects in the document. CorelDRAW lets you access available color styles through various controls: the Color styles docker, the Object styles docker, the Object properties docker, the Color styles palette, and the Document palette. (A color style is automatically added to the Document palette when you apply it to an object.)

Color styles can be combined into groups called harmonies. A harmony allows you to link color styles into hue-based relationships and modify them together as a set. By editing color styles in a harmony, you can quickly create a variety of alternate color schemes by shifting the colors together, or you can alter the color composition of your artwork in one step.

CorelDRAW allows you to create a special type of color harmony called a gradient. A gradient consists of a master color style and a number of shades of that color style. For most of the available color models and palettes, the derivative color styles share the same hue as the master color style but have different saturation and brightness levels. With the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM and Custom spot color palettes, the master color style and the derivative color styles are linked to one another but have different tint levels.

You can create a harmony from the colors of an existing object or from scratch.

CorelDRAW also lets you select all color styles that are not used in the document or merge unwanted color styles into others. It also lets you convert color styles to different color modes or to spot colors to prepare your document for production printing.

To create a color style or harmony from a selected object

1 .	Select an object by using the Pick tool .

2 .	Click Window Dockers Color styles.

3 .	In the Color styles docker, click the New color style button , and choose New from selected.

To convert the color styles to a different color mode, enable the Convert all color styles to check box, and choose a color mode from the list box.

You can also create color styles or color harmonies from a selected object by using any of the following methods:

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Right-click the object in the document window, and choose Color styles New from Selected. Then, specify the settings you want in the Create color styles dialog box.

To create a color style

1 .	Click Window Dockers Color styles.

You can also create a color style by clicking the New color style button , choosing New color style, and choosing a color in the Color editor. The Color editor provides a variety of options to choose the right color: Eyedropper tool, color viewers, sliders, and palettes. For more information about choosing colors, see Working with color.

If you want to create color styles from all the colors in your document, do one of the following:

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In the Color styles docker, click the New color style button , and choose New from document.

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In the document window, right-click an object using the Pick tool , and choose Color styles New from document.

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On the Color styles palette, click the arrow button and choose Add from Document.

To create a color harmony

1 .	Click Window Dockers Color styles.

2 .	In the Color styles docker, click the New color harmony button , and choose New color harmony.

You can also duplicate a harmony by selecting its folder in the Color styles docker, clicking the New color harmony button , and choosing Duplicate harmony.

You can resize the Color harmonies area so that you can view available color harmonies without scrolling by pointing to the grab area, and when the cursor changes to a two-directional arrow, dragging the edge of the pane.

To create a gradient

1 .	Click Window Dockers Color styles.

3 .	Click the New color harmony button , and choose New gradient.

To apply a color style

1 .	Click Window Dockers Color styles.

2 .	Select an object by using the Pick tool .

You can also
Delete a color style	Select the color style, and click the Delete button .
Merge selected color styles with the last selected color style	Click the Merge button .
Swap color styles	Select two color styles in the Color styles docker, and click the Swap color styles button . The fill color style becomes the object outline, and the outline color style becomes the object fill.
Select all color styles which are not used in the document	Click the Select unused button .

You can also apply a color style to a selected object by using any of the following methods:

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On the Color styles palette or the Document palette, click a color style to apply a fill or right-click a color style to apply an outline. To open the Color styles palette, click Window Color palettes Color styles palette.

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