There is a free standalone application from pantone called ‘myPantone’
available on the Pantone website.
You have to register for free to be a member where you can download the
application . . . you will need to
buy the relevant colour swatches ie. Pantone Coated but it converts to RGB,
CMYK, HEX etc.
I don’t think the online swatches are that expensive (well not compared to
an actual swatch anyway)
However, its all very well knowing the exact RGB reference for a pantone
colour but if the monitor it is
being viewed on is not calibrated correctly (if at all) then the colour
will not look anything like the correct
RGB pantone colour.
Nathan is correct when he says that the RGB values you get in PhotoShop (or any other Creative Suite application) will change depending on what colour spaces you have setup on the application concerned.
You can set up colour spaces in Adobe Bridge which will then be reflected across all the applications.
I do have the Pantone Color Bridge (/coated) book which give the RGB values of Pantone 7490 as R106 G150 B59 - it also gives HTML values of 6A963B
David Hanson
Production Colour Systems Analyst
Fuji Xerox
Thanks for that. I need to buy the Color Bridge book.
I contacted Pantone directly. They obviously gave me the same values as you did.
Interestingly, they said those values are not ‘converted’ from the Pantone, but ‘explicit’ data. I presume this means that a simple conversion is a crude way of getting to the process colours and that they have looked at the colours to get the most accurate simulate.