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Pantone Announces New “Goe” Color Matching System

Published on September 7, 2007 in Illustration, tools and updates. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Apple, art, CMYK, color, color theory, design, gadgets, graphic design, graphics, Mac, Pantone, print, printing, software, tool.

Pantone Goe color matching system product photo Pantone just released a brand new color matching system, touted as a “complement” to the PMS system they’ve used for 45 years. Once Adobe gives it the OK, PMS colors will be out the window. This has been in the works for about 4 years, so it predates the X-Rite buyout.

Supposedly the new numbering system is much more logical and expandable. It even comes with it’s own software now — even those who just opt for the standard fan books. Adobe hasn’t yet embraced the new system, but I can’t see why that won’t happen eventually.

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Digital Coloring Tutorials by MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond

Published on September 4, 2007 in productivity. 3 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, caricature, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, color, graphics tablet, how-to, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, Photoshop, process, productivity, resources, technique, tip, Tutorials, vector, Wacom, walkthrough, web links.

MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond digital coloring tutorial screenshot If you aren’t familiar with cartoonist Tom Richmond, make yourself familiar. This guy’s work is absolutely amazing. Very much in the style of Mort Drucker from MAD Magazine — only taken to the extreme. Not only is his cartooning & caricature style excellent, but his color work is also phenomenal. Tom graciously has taken the time to outline exactly how he digitally colors his artwork in Photoshop in a juicily-detailed three-post tutorial/how-to series on his cartooning blog.

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Pantone bought by X-Rite

Published on August 26, 2007 in art and tools. 0 Comments Tags: Apple, art, artist, calibration, CMYK, color, design, graphic design, graphics, Mac, Pantone, printing, RGB, software, tool, web links.

Pantone color swatch book Color matching wizards Pantone have been bought out by color management gizmo maker X-Rite (yeah, I never heard of them either). Seems they have been collaborating for some time now, with the Pantone Huey being one of their joint efforts. The Huey is a pretty cool, essential and affordable tool, so perhaps this is a good sign of things to come (see my review of the Pantone Huey monitor calibration tool).

Pantone swatch books are essential tools for any artist/designer working with color, but it’s good to see that the hardware side will no doubt be more aggressively pursued by this merger, since the new owners are hardware based. Such a huge part of the work of many artists and designers create these days is done on the computer monitor, and proper calibration for predictable print output is essential.

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Genopal Color Scheme Generator Software: Weird Name, Cool Tool

Published on August 24, 2007 in art, productivity, software and tools. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, bitmap, CMYK, color, color theory, cool, Cool Stuff, Creative Suite, creativity, design, free, graphic design, graphics, hex, hexidecimal, HSB, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, process, productivity, resources, RGB, shareware, software, tool, web, web design, web links, Windows, Windows XP.

Genopal is a color scheme generator software application I just stumbled across, and it’s pretty interesting.

Instead of the standard color wheels most color scheme generator/explorer software programs utilize, Genopal doesn’t give you the option of choosing a color model such as Complimentary, Triadic and such. Instead there are two sliders, one for Color Diversity and one for Lightness Diversity. There’s a “Generate” button which them cycles though color schemes as analagous or as wild as you set the sliders.

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Color Theory Resources

Published on August 23, 2007 in tools. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, art, CMYK, color, color theory, creativity, design, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, process, reference, resources, RGB, software, technique, tip, tool, web links.

Primary, secondary, tertiary, complimentary, analagous, brightness, hue, value, saturation, tints, shades… do these words mean anything to you? They should.

A post by cartoonist Matt Glover points out ColorFAQ – very basic web guide to color theory. It got me poking around on the internet for some other sites with some more depth on the subject. Sometimes I forget how much I use color theory every single day, it’s just something that sometimes goes on autopilot and is an easy topic to forget to recommend to others.

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