Messages about the imminent removal of the Pantone color catalog from Adobe software products due to a change in its licensing scheme have been appearing for a long time. It was initially supposed to disappear from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign in March of this year, later the removal date was moved to August, but the real changes have only just come now. Now users of Adobe graphic editors will have to pay a separate license for Pantone colors or they will simply go black in PSD files.
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Pantone and Adobe reportedly began collaborating in the 1990s. However, the Pantone color libraries in Adobe applications have not been updated since 2010. This probably means that the Pantone color libraries in Adobe software are out of date and hundreds of new shades are missing. It is assumed that companies have now decided to get rid of outdated libraries to jointly work out issues for further cooperation. As a result, Pantone colors have simply disappeared from current versions of Adobe Creative Cloud since yesterday. To continue using them, users are encouraged to install a special Adobe plug-in that provides access to updated color libraries, but costs $ 15 per month.
At the same time, Pantone on its forum continues to state the following: “This update will have less impact on designers’ workflow. Existing Creative Cloud files and documents that reference Pantone Color will retain identity and color information. “. At the same time, in Photoshop, when opening files containing Pantone colors, a message starts to appear: “This file contains Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black due to changes to the Pantone licensing scheme with Adobe”. The colors are in fact automatically replaced with black, this applies to both new files and old projects.
Official representatives of the companies have not yet commented on this issue.
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