PANTONE Color Manager Help - en
PANTONE Color Manager Help - en
PANTONE Color Manager Help - en
COLOR MANAGER
User Manual
PANTONE COLOR MANAGER User Manual
Creating Palettes 21
Create a New Palette 21
Create a Palette From an Image 22
Use a Color Measurement Device to Add Colors 23
Use the Capsure Device to Add Colors 24
Measure a Color into a Custom Palette 24
Measure a Multi-Color Sample into a Custom Palette 25
Accessing Help, Mobile Apps and PANTONE 26
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Features
• Automatically updates all PANTONE Color Libraries and keeps them up-to-date
• Uses PANTONE PLUS Color Bridge values
• Builds ICC profile-based device-specific RGB, CMYK, and CMYK + (n)
recipes for any PANTONE Graphics Library
• Simulates and helps you visualize spot vs. process colors, including display
and print gamut warnings to make it easy to identify colors that cannot be properly
printed on your target output device or properly displayed on your monitor
• Synchronizes spot color values to design applications
• Synchronizes device-specific values to myPANTONE™ iPhone® application
• Extracts colors from your images to find the nearest PANTONE Color matches
• Style guide generator helps you specify and share your color palette
• Measures and calibrates your iPhone display for improved accuracy in viewing
PANTONE Colors (requires myPANTONE™ 2.0 for iPhone and a calibration
device such as ColorMunki, i1Pro or i1Display 2)
PC: Double-click the .exe file and follow the instructions to complete the
installation process.
Once you have installed PANTONE Color Manager, it automatically alert you when
software updates are available from PANTONE.
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To activate your PANTONE Color Manager from a different computer, you must
first deactivate it on the existing computer.
Confirm the deactivation. The Color Manager application will quit and
the license will be removed. A message will appear confirming the
deactivation. Click Yes.
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Quick Tip: When you choose to use an ICC profile, you may notice that your
bridged color values don’t match the CMYK or RGB values in your PANTONE
Color Bridge guides. That’s because these values have been optimized for your
output through your ICC profile.
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My Palettes
A list of palettes you have created with Color Manager.
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View a Palette
When you open a PANTONE guide in Color Manager, the pages will display on
screen as they appear in the guide. You can customize settings to display your
colors with a select lighting condition, display colors that have been bridged using
an ICC profile, and display gamut warnings. See the “Color Manager Settings”
section for more information.
Tip: Want more information about DeltaE? Check out the Color Guide and
Glossary from X-Rite at http://www.xrite.com/documents/literature/en/L11-029_
color_guide_en.pdf.
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Bridge a Palette
When you select an ICC profile in Color Manager, the spot colors in the selected
palettes will appear as they will be reproduced with that profile. If you would like
to visually compare your bridged color to the original PANTONE Color, check
Show Split Color for Bridges in the View or Settings menu.
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Select File – Export. A list of applications will appear. Grayed out applications are
not found on your system.
Select the application from list, and your new Color Manager palette will transfer to
the selected application. Then, when you open this application, you will be able to
select your custom palette as the swatch library.
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Under File > Export, choose CMYK to myPANTONE. Select the CMYK profile
you want to send from the drop down menu. In myPANTONE 2.0, accept the
shared CMYK space.
In the myPANTONE app menu choose Settings. Under Color Manager your
CMYK selection is displayed. Click the arrow to the right to switch CMYK spaces
if desired.
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Select File – Export – Style Guide. Enter a directory name in the Save As box.
This is the folder that will hold the style guide PDFs. Select the destination and
click OK.
The application will export one PDF per color into the newly created folder.
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In addition to filtering an existing palette’s colors, you can also filter from within
the + button view in a user palette.
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So, what do these settings mean? D50 is approximately 5000 degrees Kelvin.
This corresponds to the mid-morning light in most of the Northern Hemisphere
and is the graphics industry’s standard viewing condition. D65 is approximately
6500 degrees Kelvin and is closer to the lighting you would see at noon. 2 and
10 degrees are standard observer angles corresponding to the way that most
people visually assess color.
Quick Tip: If you create a custom lighting condition in i1Profiler, Color Manager
will automatically load this information into your drop-down menu.
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Warnings
Color Manager will give you several notifications
to ensure you can see and reproduce your colors correctly. If you see a red
warning bar at the top of the Color Manager application window, your monitor
has not been calibrated in the past 30 days, and the colors you see may not
be displaying accurately on screen. To turn off this warning, select Settings >
Display Calibration Warning.
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If you see a red warning triangle on a color swatch, double-click it for more
information.
• If “This color is outside your monitor’s reproducible range” appears, this is a spot
color warning. Your monitor may not be displaying this color properly.
o Quick Tip: If you see a spot color warning, be sure to refer to your
PANTONE fan deck for a visual confirmation of your selected color.
• If a red warning triangle and red text appear in your device color calculation,
this color may not reproduce correctly on your selected output device with
the selected profile.
To turn warning triangles on or off, click the Settings drop-down and select
Show Soft Proof Warnings and Show Reproduction/Device Warnings. A
check mark indicates the setting is turned on.
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To see the name and date of your current monitor profile, click the Monitor icon
in the bottom left corner of the window. Select the display. The name and creation
date of the current profile will appear.
Profiling Displays
PANTONE Color Manager allows you to check the status of connected displays
and launch a program to calibrate and profile any that are out of date. Keep in
mind, an iOS device profile is only used for the display of PANTONE colors in that
application. It will not affect images or user interface.
In the lower left corner, click on the Display icon. At the top, any mobile devices
with the myPANTONE app and connected to the same network and running will
display. At the bottom, any connected displays will appear. When you click on a
display, a screen will detail profile and calibration info, plus give you an option to
launch a loaded profiling application, if one is installed.
Select the application you wish to use, and it will launch; allowing you to calibrate
and profile your display. The application you choose will become your default
profiling application, but can be changed anytime. Follow the on-screen prompts
to finish profiling the device.
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iPhone® Calibration
Through Color Manager, it is also possible to calibrate and view color for your
iPhone® and iPod® Touch®. When your device is on the same wireless network, it
will appear under Mobile Displays.
Measurement Devices
The Measurement Devices icon will detect any tethered devices, display their
calibration status, and walk through the steps to calibrate the device.
Click on a device to walk through the calibration process. For ColorMunki, you
must return the device to the correct position before it will be ready to measure.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Measurement Conditions
Many printing papers contain Optical Brightening Agents (OBA) to intensify their
brightness and enhance the final print. These agents present a problem in color
management, and must be considered when measuring and judging color. For
example, if you are measuring with a device that is UV cut, and the fan deck you
are using is not UV cut, your measurements will not be compatible. In this case,
a warning badge will also appear on the device icon.
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Tip: For more information, download “The M: Factor… What Does it Mean?”
white paper available at http://www.xrite.com/documents/literature/en/L7-
510_M_Factor_en.pdf
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Creating Palettes
When you create a custom palette, you can use it just as you use any of the
PANTONE palettes; including selecting an ICC profile to bridge colors and exporting
it to an application.
Select File – New Palette. Give your palette a name. Pick a source of colors from
the drop-down menu. If you are using a CAPSURE device with a Mac, you can
also use that device as a source of colors. Click OK.
Click the + icon and select new colors from the source color library. The search
box can help you filter colors. Click Done.
You can now click on the image in the palette header to further extract colors
from the picture and add additional colors by clicking the + button. Your custom
palette will appear under My Palettes with a photo icon, and can be used like
any other palette.
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Select File - New Palette from Image. Browse to the image, select it, and click
Open.
Give your palette a name. Pick a source of colors from the drop-down menu. If
you are using a CAPSURE device with a Mac, you can also use that device as a
source of colors. Click OK.
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PCM will extract the main colors from the image that also appear in the selected
source of colors. Click Done. Your custom palette will appear under My Palettes,
and can be used like any other palette.
If you click on the image palette banner, you will see the whole image. From here,
you use your cursor to grab colors and drag and drop them into the palette to
extract more colors from the image.
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When using a Mac, you can use the CAPSURE device to measure a single or
multiple colors into a custom palette. Colors measured from the CAPSURE can
be used just like any other swatches in PANTONE Color Manager. CAPSURE
Sync is not required to run PANTONE Color Manager, but is necessary to add
new fan decks.
Please Note:
• You can only add color swatches into custom palettes, not a PANTONE
palette.
• If you have non-PANTONE fan decks on your CAPSURE device,
measurements that match to colors in those non-PANTONE fan decks will
not appear in Color Manager.
• To use a color measured with CAPSURE in PANTONE Color Manager, the
color must exist within one of the Color Manager libraries.
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Create a new palette, or select an existing custom palette. Make sure the
CAPSURE aperture is set to Automatic/Large. This enables the instrument to
automatically determine if there is more than one color in the measurement area.
Place the CAPSURE device over the multi-color sample you want to measure
and press the Measure button. Only the average measurement will appear in
the CAPSURE palette, but both the average and the component measurements
will appear in the Color Manager palette.
The initial color displayed in the Match window is the average color across the
measurement area. When CAPSURE detects a sample containing more than
one color, the Color Picker icon in the function bar will begin to rotate and an
audible tone will be heard. The screen will automatically advance to the Color
Picker function where you can select an individual color. The selected color is
highlighted around the circle. Use the up or down buttons on the navigation
wheel to move between colors. The color description will be displayed below.
Select the desired color by pressing Enter on the device. All of the colors will
load into the active palette.
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PANTONE Colors displayed here may not match PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Color
Publications for accurate color.
Pantone is the copyright owner of color data and/or software which are licensed to user for use only in combination
with PANTONE Color Manager. PANTONE Color Data and/or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into
memory unless as part of the execution of PANTONE Color Manager.
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