Pantone COLORIST User Manual

PANTONE

colorist

Product for Windows

and for Mac OS X

user manual

PANTONE®Colors displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Publications for accurate color.

Pantone, Inc. is the copyright owner of color data and/or software which are licensed to user for use only in combination with PANTONE colorist. PANTONE Color Data and/or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of PANTONE colorist.

PANTONE®and other Pantone, Inc. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc. All other product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Adobe, GoLive and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Apple, Macintosh, Mac, Mac OS and Keynote are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, PowerPoint and FrontPage are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. QuarkXPress is a trademark of Quark, Inc. and all applicable affiliated companies, Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm Off., and in many other countries. Macromedia, FreeHand, Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver are trademarks or registered trademarks of Macromedia Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

Any omission of such marks from any product is regretted and is not intended as an infringement on such trademarks.

Contents

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

What is PANTONE

colorist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The PANTONE MATCHINGSYSTEM

Colors – sRGB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors – Adobe

RGB (1998) . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Windows

Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Selecting Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Color Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Using a Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Using PANTONE colorist within Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Adobe GoLive

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Adobe Photoshop

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Macromedia

Dreamweaver® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Macromedia Fireworks

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Macromedia FreeHand

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Microsoft

FrontPage®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

QuarkXPress

™

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Accessing Color Schemes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Mac OS X Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using PANTONE colorist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

System Level Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Accessing RGB Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Application Access via Macromedia FreeHand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Application Access via Microsoft PowerPoint

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Application Access via Apple Keynote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Accessing Color Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

RGB Space Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Which Working Space Should I Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

How to Contact Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Getting Started

Thank you for purchasing PANTONE colorist! PANTONE colorist is all about maintaining consistent color for corporate and brand identity – from initial product concepts and design, through execution in collateral and on the Internet.

The leader in color standards, Pantone, Inc. bridges the gap between design, print, presentations and Web with PANTONE colorist. Now you can enjoy access to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM with optimized RGB and HTML values for use in Web pages, graphic designs, presentations and more.

As PANTONE colorist operates at the system level, you can easily add PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors to elements created in any software application that provides access to either the Windows Color Picker for Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP or the Apple Color Picker for Mac OS X 10.2 or later. These include such popular applications as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash™ and Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Apple Keynote, Microsoft FrontPage and Office v. X version of Microsoft PowerPoint.

PANTONE colorist provides the best possible representation of PANTONE Colors on monitors and eliminates the need to tweak PANTONE Colors in order to get them to display properly and provides PANTONE Color data for an RGB workflow.

Be sure to check our Web site for additional information, updates and product news. Visit us at

www

.pantone.com. We sincerely hope you enjoy exploring a whole new world of color specification!

What is PANTONE colorist?

PANTONE colorist is a tool for anyone wishing access to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM to obtain cross-media or cross-application color consistency, or who simply desire an expanded palette of colors from which to choose.

Colors are selected from a scrollable palette of 1,114 solid PANTONE Colors from the coated library. Selecting the sRGB working space provides the best possible representation of PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors on a monitor and is ideal for Web use. When the ultimate destination is for print, the Adobe RGB (1998) color space is provided. For a visual ink-on-paper reference, the PANTONE formula guide is available from Pantone or local distributors.

Any PANTONE Color can be located by entering its unique identification number. In addition to PANTONE Color selection, for each color selected, RGB 0-100%, RGB 0-255 and HTML values are supplied for both sRGB and Adobe 1998 color spaces. Plus, PANTONE colorist includes the PANTONE Internet-safe Color System of the 216 PANTONE Web-safe colors.

NOTE: Due to limitations associated with the Mac OS X operating system, the specific RGB and HTML data values are not displayed within the system picker interface.

The software also provides free access to a Web utility exclusive to PANTONE colorist users. This simple-to-use utility contains a host of pre-defined color schemes comprised of colors from the solid PANTONE Color library. Schemes are organized by the psychological effect they illicit, but individual PANTONE Colors can be searched as well for determining complementary colors. Refer to “Accessing PANTONE Color Schemes” within the Windows and Macintosh sections of this manual for more information.

System Requirements

Windows • Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000,

Windows XP

• Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater video card

• CD-ROM drive

Macintosh • Mac OS X version 10.2 and later

• Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater video card

• CD-ROM Drive

Installing the Software

Windows

Make sure that you have closed all open applications. Insert the PANTONE colorist CD and the PANTONE colorist installer should automatically launch. If not, open the CD and double-click on PANTONE(R)colorist.exe. Follow the on-screen instructions and select the directory in which you want to install PANTONE colorist. When installation is completed, PANTONE colorist will launch and an icon for it will be placed in the system tray.

Macintosh

Make sure that you have closed all open applications. Insert the PANTONE colorist CD. Open the CD and double-click on PANTONE

colorist. Follow the on-screen instructions and select the directory in which you want to install PANTONE colorist. When installation is completed, you will be prompted to restart your system.

The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors – sRGB

The PANTONE Colors contain the RGB and HTML data for the industry standard PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. This palette is a full 24-bit (millions of colors) palette and, therefore, some colors will dither on an 8-bit display from within a browser document. These PANTONE Colors have been specially calibrated for the standard monitor color space for the World Wide Web and for the Windows/Macintosh operating systems. Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and others have developed a standard monitor color space that is optimized to meet the needs of most users. This color space is called sRGB. Very simply, sRGB is calibrated RGB that is optimized for the vast majority of computer monitors, operating systems and browsers. sRGB specifications use a monitor with a gamma of 2.2 and 6,500 degree Kelvin white point. sRGB will allow color to be reproduced and displayed in a single, unified method that provides for viewing consistency from monitor to monitor. Further, Microsoft has made sRGB the default monitor color space for Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors – Adobe RGB (1998)

Adobe RGB (1998) provides a larger gamut than sRGB and is well designed for images and documents that will be converted for commercial printing. This is potentially a better space for prepress work if you want to access a broader range of colors.

Important note about RGB - The RGB values are Pantone’s official release of RGB values that

conform to the sRGB and Adobe RGB (1998) specifications. These colors will display reasonably well on most monitors but will not exactly match PANTONE Colors printed on coated stock. The values were developed with many variables being taken into account. Some of them are:

• Differences in monitors from one manufacturer to another and identical monitors by the same manufacturer

• Age of monitor

• Imperfections in the monitor manufacturing process

• Ambient lighting conditions

• Individual perceptual response to color

• Adaptive response - colors can visually change based on adjacent and/or background colors

• The relative distance that the printed guide is held in relation to the monitor

For more information about color spaces, please refer to page 14 of this User Manual.

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