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Colour matching gadget
Hi all,
Is there a gadget that can tell you the pantone or cmyk number of a colour. Something like a scanner. I’m sure I seen something once on a TV program where a woman placed a sample colour in this gizmo to make nail varnish the same colour. Is there something for the likes of us sign makers.
From Mark
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12 Replies
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hi mark think its called a densotometer !
it scans the colour sample and gives you the pantone referencei think
Derek
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Hi Mark
I think you are looking for a Pantone colour Cue.
http://www.pcwb.co.uk/catalogue/item/PA … dp=Froogle -
If you’ve got an iPhone, then £5.99 will buy you this………
http://www.code-line.com/software/colorexpert.html
Take a photo with the built in camera, select the area of the picture you want, and it will give you the Pantone number.
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Corel users can try this.
Download Limit Colours macro from http://www.oberonplace.com and install
Open Pantone coated or uncoated pallet into Draw
Scan your item,
run Power trace (as this only works on vector objects)
Select item
Run Limit colours macro
Select pallet you want to use ie Pantone Coated
All objects will be coloured the nearest Pantone colour within the pallet selected.
Alan D -
its called a spectrophotometer…xrite i1 / pantone color cue 2 and few others.
Basically it fires a calibrated light towards a target where it reads of LaB values, these values then get converted to what you desire through colour profiling in RIPs and alike.
i would like to know if the iphone actually has a decent camera on it, so if you measured the pantone book with, would it get all the colours 100% on?
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Yea Dave, I also would like to know if the iPhone would accurately give you the correct pantone number. If it does I’d buy a iPhone right now. A good excuse to the wife to buy one lol
John, have you got an iPhone with this app on and does it realy work?
From Mark
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i remember a while back seeing an article back that grafityp did one of these, just had a quick look on theri site but i cant remember what it is called so gave up. :lol1: it has a sorta scottish name from memory, mcbeth, mcgregor or something like that. 😉 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
anyway, they do it so ide give them a call and ask.
as for i-phone, i think its a great idea and maybe it does work but ide expect the resolution of the camera, room lighting and such "might" come into play into getting accurate readings on this type of thing, but what do i know. 😕 :lol1:
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quote M Brown:John, have you got an iPhone with this app on and does it realy work
Yes, I’ve got it, although I’ve never used that function.
I’ll try it out, but it might have to be on Monday. Weather forecast is good for tomorrow, so the bike beckons. 😀
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yep SOD the colour wheres the bike 😀 😉
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quote Chris Wool:yep SOD the colour wheres the bike 😀 😉
In my garage, with it’s mate.
And, according to my iPhone, it’s Cool Grey 11. 😀
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quote Robert Lambie:i remember a while back seeing an article back that grafityp did one of these, just had a quick look on theri site but i cant remember what it is called so gave up. :lol1: it has a sorta scottish name from memory, mcbeth, mcgregor or something like that. 😉 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:anyway, they do it so ide give them a call and ask.
as for i-phone, i think its a great idea and maybe it does work but ide expect the resolution of the camera, room lighting and such “might” come into play into getting accurate readings on this type of thing, but what do i know. 😕 :lol1:
its a gretag one eye, sort of a Scottish mix of a name 😀
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gretag got bought out by x-rite from memory.
i see the iphone colour gadget as handy, but not accurate, cant see how it can be lol
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