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After you have the ColorSure Palette loaded into CorelDraw, move the

cursor over each color. As the cursor hovers over each different color,

IV.

Using Color Finder

After printing and transferring the ColorSure Palette, you see that you have an array of

colors to work with. There will be times, however, when the color you need is not included

in the ColorSure Palette. This is where the Color Finder Tool comes in handy.

The Color Finder Tool allows you to start with a specific color (e.g. navy blue) and find

similar colors in the same family by adding and subtracting up to three colors (RGB)

called ‘Step Colors.’ For example, starting with navy blue with an RGB value of 6,6,85

and choosing two step colors (e.g. blue and red) would expand the original navy blue in

four directions (more blue, less blue, more red, and less red). This expanded color chart

– specific to a particular substrate and printing speed – prints directly to your printer.

III.

Designing Your Artwork

By picking colors from the ColorSure Palette, you will be able to consistently

reproduce colors in a reliable manner. To assist you in designing your artwork,

PowerDriver installs three palettes: two for Adobe products and one for Corel

products. These colors match the palette that is printed from within PowerDriver.

• To open the

ColorSure Palette in Corel 9,10, 11, 12, X3, or X4 choose: Window|

Color Palette| Open Palette. Select the file “ColorSure Palette Corel.”

To open the ColorSure Palette in Illustrator, choose Window | Swatch

Libraries | Other Library. Navigate to where it was installed when you

installed PowerDriver: C:\Program Files\Sawgrass\PowerDriver\Adobe

Illustrator and hit Open. For easier access to the Palette, File-Copy it from

this [above] path to Illustrator10\Presets\Swatches and it will show up in

your pull-down list directly under the Swatch Libraries Menu. Other versions

of Illustrator will have similar steps.

• To open the ColorSure Palette in Adobe PhotoShop, choose the Swatches

Palette, click the option arrow on the palette, choose Replace Swatches and

pick the “ColorSure PDIQXGv1.

aco” file.