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"Pantone No Longer Available" Photoshop Popup

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
May 9, 2025
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It has been 3 years now Adobe! We GET IT!!! Pantone is no longer available.

Either turn this thing off or give us the option to turn it off!!!

IT WASTES TOO MUCH TIME!!!

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Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I remember Linus having a major rant about Pantone a while back, and from what he says, I'd say this is out of Adobe's control. I've used Pantone Connect a while back, but I just tried it and I appear to be getting limited access. I expect our @D Fosse would say it is meaningless picking colours from a browser, and he is probably right. The printer was happy though, and the job was fine.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@Trevor.Dennis – As Pantone is an entire workflow and ecosystem, from design to ink mixing for press, I was truly surprised that there wasn't more negative feedback!

More on how to deal with this at my blog:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2022/12/photoshop-2022-pantone-color-book.html

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Bobby Henderson

Community Expert

The on-going situation with Pantone and Adobe's applications has been ridiculous. I don't know if the move was deliberate or just incidental, but the result looks like Pantone singled out Adobe with its demands while giving various other software developers a break.

Current editions of Affinity Designer and CorelDRAW have updated Pantone color books. A variety of industry-specific applications also have their own Pantone color books installed. I can only guess Pantone targeted Adobe since its graphic design applications have well-established plugin architectures. They probably don't have the developer manpower to make their Connect software work with all those other applications.

Many of us have simply made backups of old Pantone ACB files to drop into new installations of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. That step doesn't always get rid of the annoying pop up message about Pantone colors, but it does keep spot color fills from turning black. One upshot: just having those old color books present in program folders will allow newer spot colors in art files to open properly.

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Aleke

Community Manager

Hi @KathrynB82D! Welcome to the community!

Sorry to hear about the frustration you're experiencing. Could you let me know what version of Photoshop you're using?

Also, could you try the solution mentioned by Stephen here and see if that helps?

Thanks a bunch!

Alek

*(If you mention me with an @, like @Aleke, I’ll get a notification and can respond faster.)*

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@Aleke – Thank you for the recomendation, however, my script was a bandaid solution. If this topic was marked as an "idea", then I would say now that the political dust has long settled, the dialog needs a "do not show again" checkbox.

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KathrynB82DAuthor

Participant

I have and it does not work. I am running the latest 2025 version of Photoshop. I was surprised that y'all still didn't add the check box to the Pantone pop-up. I don't have time to keep clicking "OK" when I am opening 20-30 files at a time, and I definitely don't have time to go through my templates to recreate and/or find the "Pantone" layers.

Adobe just needs to add that lovely little check box to the Pantone pop-up.

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