Pantone equivalents to RGB or CYMK?

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Alan Browne
Jun 30, 2007
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Is there a means to get a Pantone code for a given RGB or CYMK?

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Jun 30, 2007
In article <HAwhi.47965$>,
Alan Browne wrote:

Is there a means to get a Pantone code for a given RGB or CYMK?

Open the color picker. Type your RGB or CMYK values, then hit the button labeled "Custom" in the color picker window and choose the appropriate Pantone book.

Note that this isn’t perfect; many RGB and CMYK values have no precise Pantone match, and that RGB and CMYK values are not necessarily meaningful without a defined color space. Don’t try to do this as a substitute for looking at the actual Pantone swatchbook.

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Malcolm Smith
Jun 30, 2007
Alan
In my the back of my Pantone Swatch books is a sample of a swatch called Pantone Bridge which lists the RGB and CMYK colours of Pantone colours. I presume this is another sort of swatch block.

My eye one monitor and printer profiler photometer comes with a program called (I think) I1share which enables you to measure hard copy colours to get RGB values. So with a swatch book you can measure and find RGB values

This may be of interest although not quite what you asked for – Malcolm

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John Boy
Jul 1, 2007
If you spare the cash, there is Pantone Colorist software.
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Alan Browne
Jul 1, 2007
John Boy wrote:
If you spare the cash, there is Pantone Colorist software.

Yeah, I thought as much… sigh.

I found a color scheme on the web close to what I need and brought that into PS and got the RGB values, then found a Pantone to RGB table … I wrote a little program to run through the desired RGB values and look for a closest fit to what I wanted and got a close match. It’ll do.

Cheers,
Alan

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Mike Russell
Jul 1, 2007
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[re RGB versions of Pantone colors]
I found a color scheme on the web close to what I need and brought that into PS and got the RGB values, then found a Pantone to RGB table … I wrote a little program to run through the desired RGB values and look for a closest fit to what I wanted and got a close match. It’ll do.

Alan,

I’m coming in on the tail end of this thread, so forgive me if I’m repeating something that was said earlier. Photoshop’s color picker has a built-in Pantone library that will do nearest match search for a particular Pantone color. To access it, click the black or white square in the toolbar to bring up the picker, then click the Color Libraries button in the Picker. The picker will highlight the closest match to your current foreground color.

Here’s a cool feature that is not often mentioned here. If you have an image open in Photoshop, click in the Photoshop image, then hold the mouse down and drag the cursor anywhere you want on the screen, even outside of Photoshop, for example, on a web page whose colors you are duplicating. As you drag, the picker will display the closest color match from the library you have selected. Release the button to select the color under the cursor and voila, you have the closest Pantone color.

Be sure to use the correct color set. The main distinction is between coated and uncoated paper, with the former supporting more saturated colors. Photoshop’s Pantone color numbers were changed a couple of versions ago, but not by much.
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Alan Browne
Jul 2, 2007
Mike Russell wrote:
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[re RGB versions of Pantone colors]

I found a color scheme on the web close to what I need and brought that into PS and got the RGB values, then found a Pantone to RGB table … I wrote a little program to run through the desired RGB values and look for a closest fit to what I wanted and got a close match. It’ll do.

Alan,

I’m coming in on the tail end of this thread, so forgive me if I’m repeating something that was said earlier. Photoshop’s color picker has a built-in Pantone library that will do nearest match search for a particular Pantone color. To access it, click the black or white square in the toolbar to bring up the picker, then click the Color Libraries button in the Picker. The picker will highlight the closest match to your current foreground color.

Here’s a cool feature that is not often mentioned here. If you have an image open in Photoshop, click in the Photoshop image, then hold the mouse down and drag the cursor anywhere you want on the screen, even outside of Photoshop, for example, on a web page whose colors you are duplicating. As you drag, the picker will display the closest color match from the library you have selected. Release the button to select the color under the cursor and voila, you have the closest Pantone color.

Be sure to use the correct color set. The main distinction is between coated and uncoated paper, with the former supporting more saturated colors. Photoshop’s Pantone color numbers were changed a couple of versions ago, but not by much.

Thanks very much for that! It took me a bit to get it to work, but got the right pantone! (my own program was off by one pantone code number…, not bad I guess…)

The "picker" is something that was often useful in Macromedia’s Dreamweaver to grab a color and use it in page making, so I hope to use it in PS with your feature desc. above.

Cheers,
Alan

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