I may or may not still have access to my pantone library because my cs6 is a little "yar-har-fiddle-de-dee" if you catch my meaning, but this is good to know!

I've been hearing about this. Pretty sucky.

I'm using Krita, so I haven't had to deal with PS's crap for a while.

krita ftw

I'm really liking it. I'm a rank amateur, though. I'm really still just earning how to use it. I previously had PS4 because you could get that for free. Krita seems a lot like PS, and has plenty of capabilities. Plus, I won't have to deal with this Pantone nonsense.

I used to use OpenCanvas - still have to get used to the Krita hotkeys and whatnot, but it works fine for a tablet

Thankfully I use CS6 extended and will probably never upgrade. I have no idea what "Pantone" even is. I prefer to OWN my own copy of software and yeah, say what you want about "licensing", the software is a physical copy, it's in my possession, I own my own copy.

Pantone is an ugly, drippy shade of brown chiefly associated with the underwear and noses of predatory executives who use legal shenanigans to extort money by claiming ownership of abstract notions.

Next thing they'll be breaking on purpose is your monitor calibration. Cough up monthly or you'll never get true-to-print onscreen hues....

Just on curiosity, I've gotta do some research on the history of how Pantone standard became such a monopoly, and related topics... seems like a good deep dive for a lazy afternoon.

let me know how it goes.

Aside from people on Hard[OCP] some years ago, I doubt people outside of professional graphics actually calibrate their displays and people consuming furry art probably don't calibrate either.

I just make my display look nice and leave it at that. :P

Fuck both Pantone and Adobe.

I'm more interested in how the LTT video is going to affect the discussion, considering their large viewship. It certainly does not help with the PR angle of the entire situation.

-____- You've got to be heckin kidding me.....

Someone smelled money in the water, and so another product goes to software as a service.

All I care about is RGB values. I don't give a shit about what Pantone is or what they think they control.

The only good thing I can see with that kind of greedy shenanigans is that it will, hopefully, see many individuals and companies migrate to free and open-source software, where that kind of shit is much less likely to happen.

One can already see it in the VFX and animation communities, with both Euroipe and India migrating to Blender for both 2D and 3D work. Now Blender needs a few more tweaks to it's paint tools, but grease Pencil is becoming a pro level 2D animation tool. We are seeing a lot of Photoshop alternatives, BUT Pantone has a monopoly on designer colors, so the Design area will be slaved to them for the foreseeable future, as colors can be trademarked.

I feel like the idea that "colors can be trademarked" needs to be challenged.

That would be a very expensive fight. However, look at the bottom comment here. There seems to be a free alternative.

Next step will be adobe charging per "undo" action. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Chromatisity is your friend.....

if this is an alternative, Give us the sauce please

it's actually a term regarding color. the concept of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) between the Monitor and the printer. in higher level art production, (magazine covers, for example) the tint on the monitor and the resulting production from the printer have to match. at that level, it really can't be any shade of difference. That's Chromatisity.

This precedent is why Adobe is something I think more people need to jump ship from. Its only a matter of time before they decide to break things up further and you will need subscription just to use priorly free features. One update later later you find you can't use your favorite brushes or blending options etc. This kind of trick is something that in a just world would destroy companies from consumer rage.

Found a link to a book from 1692 on color - https://bibliotheque-numerique.cite.....inture-a-l-eau
Joke on Fark.com has Pantone suing over copyright infringement by the author....

Someone with a solution: Stuart Semple. He's thrown together a not!Pantone palette that might be used as a countermeasure against the black-ink-sacrifice the current situation causes. You can find it here, for free.

If the name "Stuart Semple" sounds familiar, or the disclaimers leave you wondering who this person is: Semple looked at Anish Kapoor's exclusive contract for Vantablack in art projects, and decided to snub them with an equivalent black ink that anyone but him could use... and has done similar things with other causes Petty? Spiteful? Maybe - but that's his hill, and I acknowledge his fight for it.