Re: Re: Photoshop and Pantone
Re: Re: Photoshop and Pantone
- Subject: Re: Re: Photoshop and Pantone
- From: Chris Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:20:25 -0800
At 2:11 AM -0500 11/22/2000, email@hidden wrote:
In a message dated 11/21/00 7:01:25 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:43:00 -0500
Subject: Photoshop and Pantone
From: john ennis <email@hidden>
To: "email@hidden"
<email@hidden>
I am sorry to ask this off-topic question, but I know you guys know the
answer.
A client has given me a Pantone color swatch and asked me to match it in my
Photoshop image.
The Photoshop manual says Pantone colors have CMYK equivalents, but how
exactly do I determine what the CMYK equivalent is?
Is there a table in Photoshop that tells me PANTONE 3125 C IS equal to a
particular CMYK combination?
Is there something wrong with using the custom/book color picker
already in Photoshop?<
Chris>>
No, Chris, there is nothing wrong with your suggestion. It works perfectly
well assuming john ennis will be working in CMYK, understands and uses his
Pantone Process Color fan book and/or spot colors, and has no adverse interfer
ence from a color management method. My book and PS shows PMS 3125 to be
CYAN-83, MAGENTA-0, YELLOW-23.5, BLACK-0.
If john ennis is working in RGB, I've got some numbers for that as well.
If he's working in any other color mode, then Photoshop uses LAB
values for the pantone swatches and provide the best match possible
in the current image color space.
Only in CMYK do we ignore the current color space and use Pantone's
numbers (because they said we had to).
Chris