cmyk colors

[KSi]

Hello,
I have a problem with cmyk colors. I don't know what happened. Time ago when I draw an object, I put the color of value c=70 m=0 y=100 k=10 and it was a dark green color, the same like a pantone 362(U). Today the pantone is stil the same, but in the cmyk value the color is much much lighter, nothing like it should be. Can anybody know what happened?

 

[Brushman]

Could be down to colour manager and Draw version. Earlier versions seemed to view as coated stock ie colours were fairly rich, now we have the option of coated and uncoated comparisons and uncoated always seems paler and more washed out.
Alan

 

[KSi]

No it can't be, because I have the 12 version all the time, and this color was as it should be about a week ago, and today the color is not even close.

 

[Brushman]

Plan B then. Don't really know to be honest, I suppose a start is to launch Draw pressing F8 and resetting the workspace, not saying it will fix your problem but it does seem to cure some other wacky behaviour.
Alan

 

[impulselondon]

Bingo bango - same issue I had after completing a six-month project. While I can't correct the issue for you, I can testify officially to Corel's total inability to consistently display colours - I now have a true-match monitor for embroidery that shows the exact colour of what I am physically holding in my hand to a tee, and Corel's representation of it is completely wrong on that monitor. It is absolutely totally wrong.

And it occassionally and randomly changed colours as they had been saved. Blues become greens, greys beome browns, reds become greens. So I switched to Adobe Illustrator. I just couldn't take it any more; sorry, when I finally was able to confirm my suspicions on this, I felt totally betrayed by Corel. Colour's the single most important part of my work.

 

[KSi]

I managed to solve the problem. I went to colour managment and changed the "default settings" to "optimized for professional output" and it works fine again.