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From now on you’ll have to pay to use Pantone colors in Adobe software

Oct 31, 2022 by Alex Baker 3 Comments

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From now on you'll have to pay to use Pantone colours in Adobe software

If you open up a PSD file and find areas of the image filled with black, your immediate reaction is probably to panic. But not to worry, if this happens there’s probably a very simple (yet costly) explanation. From now on, Adobe is no longer licensed to use Pantone’s colors.

So what does this mean exactly? Adobe has begun to phase out all the Pantone Color Books from its software which includes Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. If you have any Pantone colors in your work, even in old files from 20 years ago, you will get a message telling you that areas that have those colors will be rendered in black.

Fun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that's 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November. pic.twitter.com/BUxzViYFaQ

— Iain Anderson (@funwithstuff) October 28, 2022

Pantone first partnered with Adobe in the ‘90s to embed Pantone Color Libraries within the core Adobe Design applications. Since 2010, the Pantone color libraries within Adobe’s apps have not been updated. Pantone says that the color libraries are “significantly out of date and missing hundreds of new Pantone Colors”.

 

Pantone states in their FAQs that there should be “minimal impact on a designer’s workflow”. However, several users have already reported the Adobe pop-up informing them of the blacked-out areas when accessing files. Others have apparently even said that even with a Pantone license it still isn’t working.

It’s not ideal as you can imagine. However, there is a solution: you can subscribe to Pantone Connect for $15 a month. And there are rumors of other less ideal workarounds too, though, of course, we wouldn’t like to officially endorse those.

[Via Kotaku]

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Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe

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