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Sample Colors with Your iPhone

Code Line’s Color Expert is an amazingly cool iPhone application that turns your iPhone into a color sampler and color scheme builder. You can take photos with the iPhone’s camera, match colors in the photos to Pantone PMS and Goe swatches, build custom Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split Complementary and Triadic color palettes, email your color schemes, [...]

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Easily See “Registration” Color

If you have trouble telling the difference between Black and Registration colors in QuarkXPress, you can change the Registration color to display as any color you’d like. It still prints on every plate; it just looks different on screen.  The quickest way to edit a color is to Control-click or right-click on the color in the [...]

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Pantone GoeBridge Coated fanbook converts Goe spot colors to CMYK, sRGB and HTML

Pantone’s GoeBridge Coated guide is a fanbook on coated stock that makes it easier to recreate many of the new Pantone Goe spot colors in CMYK, sRGB and HTML. The guide includes swatches for all 2,058 Goe spot colors, with four-color process equivalents, and sRGB and HTML values.  GoeBridge Coated costs $99 until Jan. 1, then [...]

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