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Colour Matching using the bevel tool in corel ?
Hello everyone ,
im looking for some help , i have designed a sign for a customer the main letters CDC have a bevel on it but im trying to match the purple and blue to be the same as the text running up the side it looks ok on the file but when i try to print it they are completely different? am i doing something wrong can anyone help ?
Im using corel x6 and versaworks
Thanks In advance
Jonny
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Hi Jonny,
I get this from time to time.
I would try exporting as a TIFF instead of EPS if you haven’t already.Next to try would be the setting at the bottom of the layout tab on versaworks (sorry completely gone from my head) there you have drop down for pre-press US, Sign & digital etc. We are normally sign and digital, however to get round a similar issue before I changed to pre press US.
You could try exporting RGB instead of CMYK but that will change all your colours.
As a last resort export from Corel as a full size JPEG at 100% quality. Then import. Should still print pretty good. Any cut lines etc.. you had set up on the vector just re-align on top of the JPEG.
Might not be the right answers but these have worked for me when in a rush in past.
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Cheers Chris I’ll give it all a go
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I tend to convert it it a 200dpi cmyk jpeg for best results, I’ll explain further when I get in..
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done in corel X8 and have the same cymk values as the rest
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Thanks Chris I’ll import it once I make it in through the snow cheers
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Worked perfect thanks again
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I’ve been doing quite a bit of bevels and effects lately, I found that it’s much easier to add a ‘x’ mm contour to your letter, break that away and make the bevel the same ‘x’ mm as your bevel, leaving the face the correct colour (seems to change in X5 sometimes) and easier to add further effects to, then I export the lot as a jpg – i began doing the jpeg as sometimes I found that by rotating the image to fit a print space, the bevel altered to suit!
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Couple of examples..
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Wow really good looking work there hugh this is my first go at bevels I’ll maybe give your way a go and see how it works cheers
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quote Jonathan feeney:Wow really good looking work there hugh this is my first go at bevels I’ll maybe give your way a go and see how it works cheers
Thanks Jonathan,
X7 handles bevels better but my old pc and X5 was dead slow on bevels, even a simple scroll zoom could take forever! by doing things on different layers it frees up the memory and speeds processes up.Not saying it’s the right way, but it works for me!
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