So the state of California needs Pantone why exactly?  Seriously, every printer mixes (or buys premixed) PMS colors but they don't ever come from Pantone.  Is this an state run in house printing company?  I still don't see any reason this is necessary.   ... View more

Everyone in the world uses Pantone colors successfully, without issue. What terms and conditions are a problem for Pantone?  They may also be a problem for any other company... ... View more

The thought that because a brand is primarily digital, brand colors should be set and approved as HEX values first is not a great plan, because you alienate the print world and the brand suffers   First choose the colors in PMS then get the hex values from those colors.  Then you can protect the brand colors across all media.    ... View more

Because you mentioned educational PDF on the internet, that tells me sRGB is the correct color space for your purpose.   ... View more

Both EIZO and NEC make color-calibrated monitors that have built-in tools to calibrate them.  BenQ also has some good models but you will have to have a separate calibration tool.  Look for an Adobe 98 coverage or close and you will have one of the better displays.     ... View more

If this is a new question.  Start another thread and explain what you mean by "it's been a year " ... View more

Adobe applications will never ask to embed a profile that is not the color space of the file you are saving.  If that is the case for you, then just uninstall the application and reinstall it because that is a serious bug.     The normal dialog is to "Embed Color Profile"  That dialog is for whatever color space your file is in at the time you save it.  Always embed a profile in any saved files.  That profile will then travel with the file and make sure other color management systems know what must be done to create the best possible reproduction.   ... View more

As this is a topic I have spent many years on, and have some variables that may need to be acounted for.   1.) When shooting paintings with a camera and lighting.  The lighting you choose is very important to the end result.  2.) ColorChecker Pasport and all other reflective color profiling tools only calibrate to the measured values of the target pigments.  This creates problems when photographing paintings because the pigments used in paintings and the real world may not be the pigments used in the reflective color calibration targets.    Thus creating a great calibration to match the target but less than great for the artwork.    3.) I've tried a couple of solutions that solved this problem.  The first for paintings was to create my own color target with the pigments used in the paintings.  That worked great for watercolors.   The second and much more complicated solution solved the actual calibration problem more accurately.   That was to create a color checker target made from light using LED's instead of color pigments.  That solution worked because the camera has a certain spectral response in it's filters so to compensate for and correct the whole photograph at a certain white balance. this method worked well, but was a bit fiddly given white balance.      As always though there is going to be metamerisem and issues The Luther Ives condition etc. that limits the way todays sensors can match human vision.  So limit your expectations to less than perfect but better and improved and you will produce a good camera calibration.  Then expect some minor tweaks to make the match meet your expectations.     If what you're shooting is extremly color critical, shoot it in daylight.  I have skylights in my studio and they do most of my lighting.  Daylight is a great tool that many photographers ignore, but can be most valuable when doing color critical work.   ... View more

The Method that DFosse mentions above will work well for most commercial print applications.  Adobe includes different options in the pulldown menue for Gray depending on the region your in.  In the US, we have the choices below:  But even those can accomidate most print conditions .   ... View more

Use Illustrator, Indesign, or Photoshop to produce your solid colors.  3D tools are not equipped to produce brand colors accurately.   ... View more

There's a suggestion of a surfer just exiting the curl of the wave. ... View more

Surf's Up! ... View more

Well without seeing Monica's post, here's my similar take 😉  ... View more

Adobe RGB is for print and display, where the print gamut is larger than sRGB.  For most commercial ink jet prints Adobe RGB is the better choice, for sheetfed Offset (CRPC6 and CRPC7) print gamuts are larger than sRGB in places.  So Adobe RGB is used for those processes.  If you are shooting Raw and you never want a great metal print or high-gamut wall art and Instagram is your media, then sRGB is the right move, but for many if not most photographers, they produce work for multiple media streams. So export to Adobe RGB then transform a separate file set for internet use.     Those are your choices.  For me having an Adobe RGB display was cost-effective and future-proofed my workflow ... View more

Now it fits right in! ... View more

"then the resulting file's gamut can be assessed up against Joe's various offerings - selecting one as a suitable container."   That is a very different thing than what you said earlier Neil.    Producing an image gamut is not the same as "camera gamut colorspaces"  Since there is no gamut on an image until it inhabits a color space in pixel format.  Data from any Raw file that is transformed into pixels, regardless of the CIELab values associated with them will never be "clipped" going into that first color space.  The pixels are rendered into that colorspace, whether ProPhoto, sRGB, or any other.  Each will represent the image based on the gamut of the container space.   Scanner data is not Raw sensor data.  In a digital camera, sensor data is a text file that contains the information from when the sensor recorded the image.  The user could "clip" that sensor data by over- or under-exposure, but an otherwise correctly exposed image will never be clipped if a Raw file workflow is used.   ... View more

Ship Shape! ... View more

Except if you have a late binding CMYK workflow.  In that case, it pays to keep your files editable and repurposable, keeping file sizes small.   ... View more

Neil,   Just a heads up.  "Joseph Holmes' specifically targeted camera gamut colorspaces" were all made with the presupposition that cameras had gamuts.  They do not, and raw files are only sensor data.  So the optimal container space will be, one that is easily transformed to the destination color spaces of any given workflow.   ... View more

To add to the comments below, Checking an Image on screen in ProPhoto RGB is not possible, but some large gamut print processes are larger than Adobe RGB in places, so ProPhoto has its place for those.  The normal workflow for printing to a high gamut device like described above is to export from Raw, which is just camera sensor data and contains no "gamut" into ProPhoto RGB, then convert to the printer profile in perceptual rendering so the gamut is not "Clipped" but this decision is image dependent.  The color space is huge, but the image may not inhabit all of that space.  That is why the space is used and why it is useful for this workflow.     In a high-end workflow, stick to equipment choices that support it.  Adobe RGB is a large enough color space to provide bright colors, in good-quality print processes.  sRGB on the other hand is smaller than most high-quality print processes and only good for internet files.     ... View more

The CMYK  color mode did not reflect any standard CMYK printing process and was removed because it was worthless.  If you need CMYK values, just get the RGB values and make sure your RGB color space is set to sRGB in Photoshop.  Select the CMYK output profile for your final CMYK print process.  Click the foreground color and input the RGB Values.  Then record what the pallet shows as the equivalent CMYK values should be to make that RGB color in your chosen print process.   ... View more

Is editing in ProPhotoRGB recommended with my Macbook set to Display P3?  - No, mainly because Display P3 is much smaller of a gamut than ProPhoto and your Macbook can not show you ProPhoto color space.  Use sRGB if that is your final intended color space for making pixels.  Adobe RGB is a good space to create images, but you need a wide gamut display to see it.     sRGB is a very small gamut suitable for the internet, but for most printing purposes, it's too small.  Display P3 is an unknown quantity outside of your world.  But saving embedded images is always better than not.     Color "details" will depend on your display.  As mentioned above, a wide gamut display benefits a photography workflow.     ... View more

Just 5 colors is all you get ... View more

Hex is only for sRGB it was created for web pages before RGB values could be used.  The web's color space is sRGB.   Anything other that a CIELab-based color will not be accurate across platforms and printing.   ... View more

Not sure what you are seeing but in the version I receive when loading Adobe Color Red and green are opposite,  But as the green turns yellow the opposite turns more Magenta, which is correct.   ... View more

That is correct. CMYK color is dependent on the printing process.  You can see this when you look at a Pantone book with CMYK color matches on it for both coated and uncoated papers.  They are vry obviously different with different CMYK values for the same PMS color.     HEX values are based on sRGB for the web.  This is  a small color space that is smaller than the ISO coated paper standards for Sheetfed printing, and much smaller than what some digital presses can provide.  I recommend Pantone colors for spot color areas.  This way the spot color is defined as CIELab color and will be converted properly for the printing process in the rip or using Indesign's export function in the Ink manager use Spot to process.     ... View more

Sounds like a hardware issue.  Graphics card or driver.  An underpowered graphics card or old/bad driver can also cause this issue.  ... View more