Pantone to CMYK or RGB
ben_c_415 (5 pencils) | Fri, 2009-01-30 06:11Hey everyone...
I am desperate here...I am a complete noob when it comes to Pantone colors...and I have no idea where to even begin converting them from Pantone Colors to EITHER CMYK and/or RGB values.
Could anyone be a miracle worker and either explain it to me, provide me a link, or just straight up use their pantone color guide (or whatever its called...again, apologies for the total lack of knowledge.
I am staring at a huge deadline in 48 hours, and I just have no idea where to begin...
again, many thanks for ANY help that is provided.
Ben
Here are my Pantone colors:
1. Fuchsia Red
Pantone: 12-2328
2. Salmon Rose
Pantone: 15-1626
3. Palace Blue
Pantone: 18-4043
4. Lucite Green
Pantone: 14-5714
5. Super Lemon
Pantone: 14-0754
6. Dark Citron
Pantone: 16-0435
7. Lavender
Pantone: 15-3817
8. Vibrant Green
Pantone: 16-6339
9. Slate Gray
Pantone: 16-5804
10. Rose Dust
Pantone: 14-1307
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Here's a link to explain what you need to know... it's simple really.
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Well, there isn't a direct CMYK to RGB for pantone. Pantone colors are for print (CMYK) and RGB is for screen.
You can get rgb read values in photoshop, like jHouse suggested. In illustrator, however, you can get your cmyk conversion breakdown, as well as an rgb breakdown, and even a web color code for your color, or the closest to it...usually.
Illustrator: If you're in illustrator, load your pantone swatches into your swatch pallet (go to swatches, select the drop down menu, go to color books, go to pantone solid coated - or uncoated - ). Once you've loaded your pantones, select each one individually (if you select them all at once, you won't get all the same options). You can select your swatch options be either double clicking your swatch, or selecting your swatch and then going to the drop down menu and selecting swatch options. Once in your swatch options, you'll have a couple drop down menus. One will be for color type (process/spot) the other for color mode (cmyk, rgb, web safe, lab, book, hsb, etc). When you selet RBG you'll get the break down.
Hope this helps.
The Pantone swatches you are referring to are from the PANTONE Color Fashion Report for Spring 2009 and this library is not loaded on graphic arts programs (that I know of anyway).
However, I was able to find this PDF....
http://www.pantone.com/downloads/articles/pdfs/PANTONE-FCR-sp2009.pdf
If you open the PDF in Illustrator, you'll be able to pull CMYK values.
What colors those CMYK numbers mean all depends on the ICC profile loaded. Finding RGB numbers are as simple as converting to an RGB profile.
Good luck.
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