Pantone colors in FCPX

[Mark Morache]

In the color box if you pull the small triangle down, you get the color gradient field to select from, however if you click on the solid color box to the left of the triangle pull-down, you get the old friendly apple color selector. You can go RGB, CMYK and HSB, or if you select the magnifying glass you can select a pixel from ANYWHERE on your mac’s screen.

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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.

Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[T. Payton]

We do this all the time. In photoshop create and image with some decent sized color swatches using PMS colors. Make sure you work in RGB. Import that image into fcp x and then use a color picker to sample the colors. Then drag into the sampled colors to the “well” at the bottom of the apple color picker. Then just use those patches in the well as needed.

If you happen to see a color shift when you import into fcpx then just sample the colors from the photoshop window instead.

Does that make sense?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Bill Davis]

And hurry.

Rumor has it that Pantone is changing their entire color description system.

The swatch books that I’ve been using for 15 years are on their way out if what my designer friends tell me is true..

Sigh.

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[Bruce Wittman]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the great info!

Bruce Wittman
Executive Producer

Eagle Video Productions, Inc.
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