[thelist] RGB/CMYK to Pantone

[John Dowdell]

There's a more accurate way than finding Photoshop's nearest match. First,
please be warned that an ink is a subtractive color, and so will never
precisely match the various additive color monitors around.

Aside from that, get the swatch in your computer, and use Fireworks'
Web-Dither fill to find the two websafe colors which synthesize this color.
This will display as you intend on displays set to "millions of colors" and
"hundreds of colors", to the degree that that monitor reflects other colors
accurately. (Monitors set to "thousands of colors" do shift "websafe"
colors a bit.)

Summary: Instead of one color to simulate a print color, using two colors
in a 2x2 dither pattern gives you a closer match on a wider variety of
machines.

jd






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