Revolting colours on CMYK images imported from Photopaint to Coreldraw

[distendo]

The colours of aCMYK image imported into CorelDraw (9)look very different from theoriginal viewed in Photopaint: 'brighter', and fairly unpleasant. If (for instance) I export that same image fromPhotopaintas an RGB Jpeg (converting the original CMYK to Lab color, then to RGB), on importing that to Coreldraw, the colours are faithful. I imagine that thismay beto do with something like Coreldraw's default colour palette being set to RGB, so CMYK images are matched to that range. I'm not even sure this always happens!

If anyone's any idea what I'm on about and can give me a clue, you'd make my day a lot brighter and whole lot less gaudy...

[distendo]

To reply to my own post - as I understood it (or as I'd read somewhere, some time ago), when processing a document intended for export to EPS it was advisable to uncheck 'Calibrate colors for display' in the Color Management options: I rechecked it and the display is fine again...

[aprilcartergrant]

RGB mode allows a whole gamut of almost-fluorescent colors that simply are impossible with CMYK. If you have colors that are within the RGB band that cannot be reproduced by CMYK, converting to CMYK will attempt to make the closest possible CMYK combo (which usually is quite muddy and unattractive). I don't know how to use Photopaint, but in the applications I use, there is a triangle with an exclamation point when a CMYK-impossible color is chosen... look for something simiar in your program.

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[distendo]

Thanks April. In fact, I have just found such a warning in Corel. It was the way an imported CMYK became - as you say - fluorescent (good chice of word there) that was disturbing me.


Though I have to say it looks to me like CMYK colours - as with 'Websafe' colours - are all carefully selected to be as disgusting as possible... /emoticons/smile.gif