Creating a Custom Colour Swatch Chart

Creating a Custom Colour Swatch Chart
By Mike Clarke
Sep 8, 2003, 23:58

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Creating a Custom Colour Swatch Chart

One of the things that can be a problem when you are sublimating is creating colours that are the same as on your screen as what you get on your finished product. One way to help solve this problem is to create a swatch of your colours and print the swatch out so that you can compare the colours on your screen with what you have printed.

Creating the Swatch in CorelDraw Version 8 and 9

The colour chart file located below is a CorelDraw 8 file that has been created by McCollough for those who wish to print out the standard RGB chart. Each one of the color swatches has its appropriate RGB numbers attached to it. All you need to do is open the file and print it out on you material that you want to use for sublimation.

CorelDraw Version 10 and 11

It is quite easy to create a swatch if you have CorelDraw 10 or 11. We will be using the macro language – VBA – which will need to be installed on your computer. Go to TOOLS | VISUAL BASIC | PLAY – see figure 1.

Figure 1

2. Next you will be presented with a dialogue box. Pick “All Standard Projects” that is located in the “macros in” drop down menu – see Figure 2.

Figure 2

3. Next you will see a listing under the “Macro Name” called CorelMacros.CreateColorSwatch. Select it – see figure 3

Figure 3

4. Click on the run button. 5. Figure 4 is the dialogue button that is run. You can pick whatever colour system that you want. In figure 4 I have the RGB palette loaded as this is the active palette that is loaded into CorelDraw. You can pick what ever swatch you want to create. You can create a custom colour palette and than run this command to create a swatch of those colours. The spacing is the amount of space between each swatch and the outline is if you want to create a black out line around the each swatch.

Figure 4

6. Figure 5 is a screen shot of the swatch I created in CorelDraw. I used a spacing of 10.

Figure 5

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