It seems that Pantone has updated their swatch books again, calling them Color Bridge. What does this mean? I intend to find out. What I do know is the Solid to Process conversion for Pantone 433 has changed. The previous conversion was CMYK 33/3/0/95 the new version is 90/69/40/89. The new CMYK breakdown is definitely better looking and more accurate, I can't argue with that.
If you use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and/or InDesign you need to update your Swatch Libraries. Adobe's Knowledgebase section has an article with pretty good instructions, including a link to Pantone's website to download Color Bridge. I really fail to understand why the link goes to Pantone's Home Page, useless. Now I have to search for the download link. I got it! It's under MyPantone, create a new account and then on the new page select "Support files + fun tools" from the bottom left menu bar.
RANT: My big beef is that we had to find this out from our printer in the process of working on 8 pieces of collateral for one client. It was fate that we had a press check in the early stages of the process and the printer happened to have the new Pantone books and that our designer happened to notice the new books and order them for us. Why isn't Adobe and Pantone broadcasting this to people who are using these products? This is the second time I've run across this in my career. The first time was probably around 10 years ago, when they changed the process breakdowns to accommodate for Stochastic screening and it seemed like it was a much larger inconvenience then.
1 comment:
Good rant Smoot.
I love your intimate knowledge of the Pantone CMYK breakdowns...
...on that note, you may find the following amusing:
You know you're becoming a design geek when:
1. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
2. You're in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
3. You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
4. Seing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
5. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
6. You organise your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
7. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn't come.
8. You're up 'til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
9. The hottest dream you ever had was "Trace contour... Find Edges... Pinch... Extrude... Smudge Stick... Motion Blur.... Sprayed Strokes..."
10. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
11. Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.
12. The preschool teacher complains your child won't color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet.
13. Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash – and you're running OSX.
14. You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a "Too Cool for IE" banner on it.
15. You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife's satin nightgown.
16. You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because "it's the only one where the lower-case g is just right..."
17. Looking at a menu make you go "hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic" rather than "mmmm, lunch!"
18. And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture...
19. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
20. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
21. You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed.
22. You refer to your privates as "the Magic Wand".
23. You actually understand this post and pass it on to your friends.
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