Re: Web Design & Pantone to RGB

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From: jjgraph
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 03:50

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> In article <4jsbc9$r79@news1.io.org>, gmead@io.org (Glen Mead) wrote:
> 
> >
> >  Second, are there any programs (either stand alone or as features within
> >another program)or tables to convert Pantone colours to RGB?  At work I tried
> >selecting a Pantone colour in CorelDraw 4.0 as a fill colour, then I changed
> >from the Pantone palette to an RGB palette and recorded the RGB values.  Then,
> >I took the colour values over to our SGI and the resulting colour was nothing
> >like the colour I was looking for.
> >
> >  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Glen Mead - gmead@io.org
> 

Yeah it's a pain. Basically there are some colours that you can print
(mainly cyans and light greens) but you can't get the exact same colour
in rgb space (because rgb is just fooling our eyes into thinking it's
seeing a particular wavelength of light).

Photoshop 3.0 has the best colour space conversion I've seen (much
better than Corel) but it's still not perfect but at least the pantone
colours look about right on the screen.
-- 
Jon Allitt	ph  +64 4 801 9555
JJ Graphics	fax +64 4 801 7445
Wellington
New Zealand	eMail jjgraph@wn.planet.gen.nz

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