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Working with advanced color features
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2 Choose File Color Management Color Working Space.
The Color Working Space dialog box appears.
Note: The recommended working space for Corel PaintShop Pro
is sRGB.
3 In the Color Working Space drop-list, choose a color space.
4 In the CMYK Profile drop-list, choose a profile to be used for the
CMYK-related operations in the application.
The drop-list includes the default CMYK profile and any profiles
that you have added.
5 Click OK.
Using color channels
Image files store color information in channels, or planes, of colors.
You can separate an image into RGB, HSL, or CMYK color channels. An
RGB image has three channels: red, green, and blue. An HSL image has
three channels: hue, saturation, and lightness. Although you cannot
create or edit an image using the CMYK model, you can still split the
image into four channels: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
You can create a new grayscale image for each color channel; the
original image is not affected. For example, an HSL image is split into
separate grayscale images named “Hue,” “Saturation,” and
“Lightness.” Each grayscale image represents the percentage and
location of a color (such as red) or a characteristic (such as lightness)
within the image.
You can edit the grayscale images and use them to create interesting
effects or masks. You can then combine them again. If you split an
image into CMYK channels, you can then send the four grayscale
images to a printing service. You can also print CMYK separations
directly.
