Description
myPANTONE™
Who says you can’t take it with you? Not Pantone. Now with the myPANTONE™ Apple iPhone™ app you have access to a variety of PANTONE® color libraries and the ability to build color palettes and share them with colleagues and clients. myPANTONE offers graphic, web, fashion and apparel designers a way to take PANTONE colors with you wherever you go. Can’t remember what a color looks like, now you can have Portable Color Memory™.
• Get your color inspiration and create your color scheme from these PANTONE color system libraries:
• PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® (coated, uncoated and matte)
• PANTONE Goe™ (coated and uncoated)
• PANTONE Pastels (coated and uncoated)
• PANTONE FASHION + HOME (paper and cotton)
• Includes sRGB, HTML and L*a*b* data
• You can capture and extract colors from photos and snap to the closest PANTONE Color
• Images loaded on your iPhone
• Directly from images taken by your iPhone camera
• Automatically generates harmonious color combinations
• Cross-reference PANTONE colors to other PANTONE color libraries
• Once you have created your color palettes you can then share them in a variety of ways:
• E-mail an HTML image of your palette
• E-mail color palettes that can be used in the Adobe® Creative Suite (.ase files), QuarkXPress® and CorelDraw®
• Upload to the myPANTONE.com palette sharing web site
• Other features include:
• Text and voice Annotation of palettes
• Post notifications of new palettes to Twitter and Facebook
• GPS tagging of palettes
Languages:
English
Requirements:
• Compatible with the iPhone™ or iPod Touch® mobile digital devices
• Requires iPhone OS 3.0
PANTONE® Colors displayed here may not match PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Color Publications for accurate color. PANTONE®, myPANTONE™ and other Pantone, Inc. properties are trademarks or registered trademark of Pantone, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Adobe and Creative Suite are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Apple, iPhone and iPod Touch are trademarks of Apple Inc. CorelDRAW is a trademark or registered trademark of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in Canada, the United States and/or other countries. QuarkXpress is a trademark or registered trademark of Quark, Inc. and its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Any omission of such trademarks from any product is regretted and is not intended as an infringement on such trademarks. Pantone LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated. © 2009 X-Rite, Incorporated and Pantone LLC. All rights reserved.
What's New in Version 1.0.1
• Fixed drag and drop issue where color swatch could not be dropped in palette dock.
• Fixed some anomalies in the cross-reference results.
• RGB data corrected in the HTML e-mail.
• Improvements to image color extraction
Customer Reviews
No good for Mixing/Preparing Inks, (maybe good for Digital Printer and Web Designers)
If you need to actually mix/prepare inks (and not just type into the computer the Pantone color that you want) this app is not for you.
If you are a offset press operator, color supervisor or are in charge of calculating, preparing or mixing inks save your $10, (at least for now).
Given the fact that this is a formulation guide I find it disturbing that Pantone left out CMYK values for the colors and most importantly the formulas to mix the base inks to produce the desired Pantone color. This app might be useful for digital printers with glorified copiers in which you just TYPE a Pantone color and the Rip makes the calculations to produce the color. That is also assuming, that you have a spectometer to calibrate the digital press, if not, then you are screwed since you don't even have the CMYK values as a reference to start tweaking the value to get closer to color.
Interface is good, but that is jusy eye candy, as it is, other options currently exists in the App Store that are better and at least have the CMYK values.
Handy for what it does
Obviously this isn't for print work. However, it is a handy way to reference colors on the go without carrying a Pantone book with me everywhere. I often see things when I'm out and about and want to remember the way a few colors looked together. This app serves as a handy color note-taker. Even if it's not good for print work, I can still select and match colors as they appear on the phone and use that later for inspiration. A couple of niggles:
The slider is positioned above the color fan which means that as you drag your finger across the impossibly tiny color slider, your hand is blocking your view of the larger color fan. From a usability standpoint the slider should be repositioned at the very bottom of the screen, the fan should be at the top, and the wells for dragging colors from the fan should be in the middle.
I think $10 is a little high. I paid it out of curiosity, but if future updates are always this rich, I'll avoid them. Some are requesting the CMYK values be included, which would add value, but the app does include the RGB values, which is sensible as those would represent what you're seeing on screen.
It also includes the GOE guides which is a big help to me. There's no way our office is going to convert to a completely different numbering system and invest in thoses books (much less get our overseas manufacturers to do the same AND keep it all straight), but we occasionally receive colors specified with the new GOE numbers. This app is a small help in that I can at least see what range the color falls in. So in the end, I feel $10 is only a LITTLE on the high side.
I wish I could save color palettes to the phone without logging into the myPantone service. That requirement borders on the petty. If the app were quite a bit cheaper, then I could see forcing me to use the service. At $10, it's a little insulting to then ALSO require I hand over an e-mail to save my work.
Great App, Only Lacks Digital to Pantone Conversion
Very useful app. In order to be perfect, it should add the ability to convert RGB and CMYK colors to the nearest Pantone color. There is a need today of an app to draw a bridge between colors in web design and in print. This app could be the one. This feature would also help Pantone company to strengthen its dominance in the print industry as the reference of color. What hapens today is that much artwork and logos are developed in computers using CMYK and then many times people at print shops just try to match the colors without using Pantone at all. If the artist is able to send specifications as Pantone numbers, with the help of this app, this would make everyone's job easier. I know one can do it within Adobe's program, but it is a pain in the neck.
I hope this feature comes in the next upgrade !
- Category: Reference
- Updated Nov 11, 2009
- Current Version: 1.0.1
- 5.1 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: X-Rite, Incorporated
- ©2009 Pantone LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
