re: Lab Pantone specification
re: Lab Pantone specification
- Subject: re: Lab Pantone specification
- From: Dan Reid <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:09:37 -0600
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:12:49 +0000, Mauro Boscarol <email@hidden>
wrote:
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I suppose Pantone colors are specified with Lab (2, D50 I think)
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coordinates.
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I picked Pantone Coated Blue 072.
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VectorPro 3.1 gives me Lab values L= 19, a= 40, b=-79.
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ColorPicker 3.1 gives L=16, a=44, b=-76.
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Finally, Photoshop 6 gives L=14, a=69, b=-85
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Aren't Pantone Lab values univocally specified and licensed by Pantone,
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Inc?
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Thank you for your help
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Mauro Boscarol
It depends if the company that is licensing the Pantone library for their
product has paid for the Lab values. VectorPro I know paid dearly,
ColorPicker too if I remember correctly (I know the new iQue product comes
with Lab palettes for Pantone Coated, uncoated, and matte libraries), but
Photoshop only has licenses for SWOP values and not Lab.
--
Dan B. Reid
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