How to Pick Many Colors from An Image

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Today, I found this picture. I like the color combination from it and I want add some blue color from the picture. Usually I would use COLOR EYEDROPPER TOOL to pick one color and then color the object one by one.

But today I'm going to add the color sand make a pallete so I can use them in the future. Ok, let's begin the work....

First, I would import the image by pressing CTRL + I, and find where I saved the picture above on my computer. When the image has been imported into the document, select the picture using PICK TOOL and the go to the WINDOW toolbar then select COLOR PALLETES and pick CREATE PALLETE FROM SELECTION.

Then there will be a prompt to save the color pallete. I named it SUNSET BLUE. It will be saved in xml file type. After you named the pallete, you can pick any the amount of color which you want to  extract from the image and make put them into the pallete, so you can use them at anytime in the future.

Look at the numbers of color we can pick from the image. Add how many you like the color you want to add. This time I would 98 types of color. :P

Or if you want just to add the color to the document pallete, just select the image. Go to WINDOW toolbar, point the mouse to COLOR PALLETES menu and choose the ADD COLORS FROM SELECTION sub menu. Make sure the DOCUMENT PALLETE is checklisted so you can use them from the DOCUMENT PALLETE.

You can also save this pallete into a single file by clicking the small triangle. Point your mouse to PALLETE menu and choose SAVE AS in the sub menu. By the time you have your own color selection, it will be easier for you to choose any color you desired.

That's all for this topics, explore more and Happy Corelling :)

Making a Simple Logo

Hello, here I would like to make a logo for ken-digimark in Corel X5.

Open your CorelDRAW X5 and then click FILE > NEW to make a new document. Just open in any measurement you want, usually I choose A4 paper then click OK.

Start by making a circle with diameter 10 cm and next go to BLEND tools menu, usually it's on the left of your screen. Then you can click and hold for a while and it will expand then choose CONTOUR.In the option box you can choose what kind of CONTOUR you would like to use.

There are 3 options for CONTOURING.

1. To Center; it means the line will be duplicated to the center of your object

2. Inside Contour; the line will be duplicated to inside direction of your object

3. Outside Contour; the line will be duplicated to ouside direction of your object

This time I will use 2 cm the distance ousude the object twice.

After that draw a polyline, you can make it to any direction you like and then give 0.6 OUTSIDE CONTOUR. Also you should draw an arrow for the end of the line. Put the end of the polyline with the beginning of the arrow. When you've done giving the polyline with 0.6 OUTSIDE CONTOUR then remember to BREAK CONTOUR GROUP APART or CTRL + K.

Combine the arrow and the object from polyline using WELD command. Delete all the node on the line which connect from the joined polyline and arrow, so it will have only the beginning nodes and the end nodes.

Pick the circle you've been countoured, CTRL + K to break them and UNGROUP the objects. Select the biggest circle with the medium circle and COMBINE or CTRL+K to combine them.

I colored the smallest circle with color C=40 M=0 Y=40 K=0 and the combined circle with C=0 M=40 Y=80 K=0.

Since I want to make a line that getting bigger near the arrow, so I'll move the nodes on the left more to the left and so the right nodes more to the right. Do the same ting with the beginning of the line, but make it narrower by moving the nodes inside. Adjust the position the arrow so it will look like on the center. Next give 0.5 OUTSIDE CONTOUR to the arrow to give a space to the circle. Break it apart and duplicate once.

Now it's time to make a gap between the arrow and the smallest circle. Select the circle and the aparted contour arrow and use the BACK MINUS FRONT from the SHAPING docker. Do the same thing with the light orange circle.

Draw 2 rectangles for the handle, give space to each other. Join the small rectangles with the light orange circle. And color the big rectangles with C=100 M=100 Y=100 K=100 to give real black color.

Group the objects into 1 and rotate 25 counter-clockwise because it's already 2025..... LoL and it will look like this. Hope it will give you guys more idea in doing Corel Draw.

Well, please note that this article is only for beginners so it might so easy for the experts.