Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Getting Started Manual page 53

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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 4880

and ChromaBlast 4880 install three palettes: two for Adobe products and one for Corel

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

the ChromaBlast driver.

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To open the ColorSure Palette in Corel 9, 10, 11, 12, X3, and X4, choose Window

> Color Palettes > Open Palette. Select the file "ColorSure PaletteCorel.cpl"

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To open the ColorSure Palette in Adobe Illustrator, (Colorsure Palette.aco)

choose Window > Swatch > Libraries > Other Library. Navigate to its Installation

Destination set during PowerDriver installation: C:\Program Files \Sawgrass

\PowerDriver \Adobe Illustrator and hit Open. For easier access to the Palette

File, copy it from this installation path to Illustrator10 \Presets \Swatches and

it will show up in your Drop-down list directly under the Swatch Libraries Menu.

Other versions of Illustrator will have similar steps.

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To open the ColorSure Palette in Adobe PhotoShop, (Colorsure Palette.aco)

choose the "Swatches Palette", click the option arrow on the palette, (Point 1),

choose Replace Swatches, (Point 2), and pick the "Colorsure Palette.aco file.

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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,

the ColorSure Name is displayed in the status area below each 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 called

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