Re: evaluating pantone colors with Photoshop - thanks
Re: evaluating pantone colors with Photoshop - thanks
- Subject: Re: evaluating pantone colors with Photoshop - thanks
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:59:27 -0700
At 3:12 PM -0500 9/25/02, email@hidden wrote:
Hi,
Recently I posed a few questions to this list about evaluating pantone
colors with Photoshop.
First of all, thanks to the many of you who responded. I cut and pasted
some of your comments (no names) into a memo which I sent to my sales
contact. It got quite the response from various readers. The result - my
contact went back to the prospect and asked for more information which
should be on the way.
Second, some of your answers confirmed my opinions. I find the world of
color management an ever-evolving puzzle - so it was a small little triumph
for me to find that the "big kahunas" observations agreed with my own.
Bruce Lindbloom correctly observed that my company was interested in
equipment sales - so this project is not something I can avoid. Indeed
this is a "million dollar plus" deal if we are successful.
Finally, I learned recently that Pantone has now created a new book - that
compares Pantone colors with RGB equivalents. Since my world deals with
RGB on a regular basis, I'm ordering one.
Two danger points there.
1.) Make sure that the specific flavor of RGB is known and documented.
2.) Make sure that the Lab values for the Pantone colors that are
required to translate them into any flavor of RGB are likewise
documented and known. Pantone has a new product, the ColorQue, that's
useless in many different ways, but one of its really special quirks
is that it lists D65 Lab values for all the Pantone colors. The
published libraries are all D50 Lab...
Also, you may want to look at the manufacturing tolerances of the
swatchbooks...
On a nearly unrelated topic - while I wait for more information from my
sales contact, I'm busy trying to use Photoshop to add magnetic stripe data
to my print files. The first few attempts did not work, and for some
strange reason I can't find anything about this topic in either Real World
Photoshop 5 or 6 :-) Possibly my world is not the real one???
I'm quite sure your world is the real one. What exactly does "add
magnetic stripe data" mean? (If you can tell me, I can probably
figure out a way to do it in Photoshop.)
My
engineering associates claim that it is easily done in Paint Shop Pro - and
suggest I get that software :-Q The next thing you know they will suggest
I start using Windoz.
I hope we can save you from that.
B
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