Linear Workspace – Pantone Colors & hexidecimals

[Walter Soyka]

Create a swatch image from the Pantone colors in Photoshop in sRGB — just big rectangles filled with the proper colors you want. Make sure you save it with the sRGB profile embedded)

With Ae’s color management on, import that PSD and ensure it’s correctly interpreted as sRGB. Drop it in a comp, set it as a guide layer to prevent it from rendering anywhere outside the viewer. Use the color picker to grab the values you need; they’ll be automatically adjusted for your working space.

Walter Soyka
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[Glenn Tak]

Thanks… that seems to do the trick.

While I see a lot of positives with the Linear workspace, it generally causes me more problems than it is worth. Once you commit to linear in a project… you are committed. There’s no turning back!

TAK

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[Walter Soyka]

[Glenn Tak] “Once you commit to linear in a project… you are committed. There’s no turning back!”

Yes. Since linearizing the working space changes the math that’s performed by effects, the adjustments you’d make to effects controls also changes considerably. Some things like compositing feel more natural in a linearized working space, others like color correction may feel less natural. You can always work around this to a degree in 32bpc) by using the Color Profile Converter to de-linearize before effects then immediately re-linearize after them, but blending will always be different in linear- versus gamma-encoded spaces.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Glenn Tak]

One of the more annoying features of Linear Space is that my color libraries don’t really work. If I use the color picker from a library swatch I created in Adobe Color, I get a much more washed out version.

I’m not sure what the work flow in 32bit you described above is. Can you direct me to a reference text or video that could help explain?

Thanks again

TAK

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[Darby Edelen]

[Glenn Tak] “One of the more annoying features of Linear Space is that my color libraries don’t really work. If I use the color picker from a library swatch I created in Adobe Color, I get a much more washed out version.”

Apply just one Color Profile Converter and set the Input Profile to sRGB (or the native color space the color was initially defined in).

Darby Edelen