User manual PANTONE COLORIST

[. . . ] 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. 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. All other product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] 4) Macromedia Fireworks - In order to use PANTONE colorist, you must first create a new document and place an object or an image onto it. Next, from the Tools toolbar, click on the Fill Color icon , on the Colors section of the toolbar, and a color swatch will open up. On this swatch, look for the multi-colored circular icon , located on the top right-hand corner, click on it. 7. Select a color, click OK and the object will be filled with the selected color. The Fill color icon can also be accessed from the color mixer menu (Windows Color Mixer). 6) Microsoft FrontPage - To use PANTONE colorist in FrontPage, you must make sure that no other external source of color is running. On the toolbar there are two icons from which you can invoke PANTONE colorist. Once you click on one, click on More Colors and then Custom and the PANTONE colorist picker window will open. To access PANTONE colorist, select the Edit Preferences Preferences menu. Only certain items invoke the PANTONE colorist color picker, as follows: under General Hyperlinks, under `Avenue. Quark' Marker text, and under Display Margins, Ruler and Grids. Accessing PANTONE Color Schemes The `inspireME' button links you to a special section of the PANTONE Web site reserved specifically for PANTONE colorist users. This page provides color palette suggestions to enhance your creativity using PANTONE Colors. To access the color schemes, click the `inspireME' button located on the lower right corner of the system-level PANTONE colorist interface. See page 4 for more information on system-level access to PANTONE colorist in Windows. 8. The Mac OS X Version 10. 2 and later Pantone, Inc. is committed to its graphic professional customer and to the new Mac OS X operating system. We are working with Apple to develop the next generation of color selection tools which will take advantage of the features Apple has built into the Mac OS X architecture. PANTONE colorist for OS X is designed to work with Web authoring, presentation and design applications or any other application where you desire access to the library of PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors. Using PANTONE colorist You can access PANTONE colorist from within applications that access the Mac OS X System Level Picker, as well as from the System itself. NOTE: System-level access is intended to color the background of folders. System-level Access 1) Open any folder on the desktop or create a new one. 2) Select the Icon option in View. 3) From the View menu, choose "Show View Options. " 9. 4) From the Background heading, choose "Color, " then click the colored square to bring up the Apple Color Picker. 5) From the Apple Color Picker, click the Color Palettes icon. 6) From the pop-up menu, select your desired PANTONE Library. 7) Using the slider bar, scroll to preview the colors. [. . . ] CIE RGB is an outdated standard that Adobe Photoshop 5. x includes, as it is still, though rarely, referenced in color work. NTSC (1953) is another outdated standard, in this case for video production. To convey the relationship between the various types of RGB, the illustration below shows three representative gamuts: Wide Gamut RGB, sRGB, and Adobe RGB (1998). These are seen against the backdrop of the CIE XYZ Chromaticity diagram (which represents the whole gamut of color visible to the human eye): 15. Which Working Space Should I Use? Your choice of working space will be determined by the document that you are producing. [. . . ]