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Working with color styles

A color style is a color you save and apply to objects in a document. Any time you update a color style, you also update all objects using that

color style. Color styles allow you to apply custom colors with ease and consistency.

This section contains the following topics:

• “Creating and applying color styles” (page 489)

• “Editing color styles” (page 492)

• “Viewing color styles” (page 496)

• “Exporting and importing color styles” (page 498)

• “Breaking the link between a color style and an object” (page 498)

Creating and applying color styles

You can create color styles from the colors of an existing object or from scratch. When you create a color style, the new color style is saved to

the active document and to the Color styles palette.

After you create a color style, you can apply it to objects in the document. CorelDRAW lets you access available color styles through various

controls: the Color styles docker, the Object styles docker, the Object properties docker, the Color styles palette, and the Document palette.

(A color style is automatically added to the Document palette when you apply it to an object.)

Color styles can be combined into groups called harmonies. A harmony allows you to link color styles into hue-based relationships and

modify them together as a set. By editing color styles in a harmony, you can quickly create a variety of alternate color schemes by shifting the

colors together, or you can alter the color composition of your artwork in one step.

CorelDRAW allows you to create a special type of color harmony called a gradient. A gradient consists of a master color style and a number

of shades of that color style. For most of the available color models and palettes, the derivative color styles share the same hue as the master

color style but have different saturation and brightness levels. With the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM and Custom spot color palettes, the

master color style and the derivative color styles are linked to one another but have different tint levels.

You can create a harmony from the colors of an existing object or from scratch.

CorelDRAW also lets you select all color styles that are not used in the document or merge unwanted color styles into others. It also lets you

convert color styles to different color modes or to spot colors to prepare your document for production printing.

To create a color style or harmony from a selected object

Select an object by using the Pick tool .