![]() We’ve reached out to both Pantone and Adobe, and will update should either get back to us. ![]() ![]() Others have reported that even attaching a Pantone licence within Photoshop isn’t fixing the issue, colours still replaced by black, and workarounds sound like a pain. Existing Creative Cloud files and documents containing Pantone Colour references will keep those colour identities and information.” Yet today, people are reporting that their Photoshop is informing them, “This file has Pantone colours that have been removed and replaced with black due to changes in Pantone’s licensing with Adobe.” However, Pantone still states in its out-of-date FAQ that, “This update will have minimal impact on a designer’s workflow. And the solution? It’s an Adobe plug-in to “minimise workflow disruption and to provide the updated libraries to the Adobe Creative Cloud users.” Which, of course, costs $US15 ($21) a month. However, this month, people are noticing the effects, reporting issues with creations using Pantone’s spot colours. It was then due for August 16, then August 31. The removal of Pantone’s colours from Adobe’s software was meant to happen March 31 this year, but that date came and went. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November. 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. According to Pantone, the two companies started working together in the 1990s, but “since 2010, the Pantone colour libraries within Adobe’s apps have not been updated.” This, apparently, means they’re “significantly out of date and missing hundreds of new Pantone Colours.” (Yes, the company seriously capitalises “Colour”.) This means that, “Pantone and Adobe have together decided to remove the outdated libraries and jointly focus on an improved in-app experience that better serves our users.”įun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Since then, the official reasons given haven’t made a great deal of sense. One industry standard being removed from another was obviously going to create issues, but at the time Adobe said it would be “working on an alternative solution,” while rumours spread that the companies had had a falling out. Last year’s announcement that Adobe would be removing the Pantone “colour books” from its software brought consternation in the design world. Or, to put it another way, they claim to own colours. ![]() This extends as far as preventing others from creating “Patone-compatible” colour systems. So, of course in becoming the industry-standard for colour-matching, the company naturally asserts ownership of all its 2,161 hues, defending its intellectual property and preventing its unlicensed use. ![]() Pantone has been around since the 1950s, the New Jersey company originally refining printing inks, then later inventing the Pantone Colour Matching System, used worldwide by designers to ensure a creation’s colour will be exactly as desired, no matter where or how it’s manufactured. As of now, widely used Adobe apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign will no longer support Pantone-owned colours for free, and those wishing for those colours to appear in their saved files will need to pay for a separate licence. ![]()
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