Fatboy
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Thank you for this color chart.It is fantastic.
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Couple-a-Things / Scavinger Hunt
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Thank you for this color chart.It is fantastic.
Tah-Dah!!!
Signage, Thanks again, I done did it! I don't think I would have gotten there without the group participation, I was giving up too early. Thank you everybody: S'N'S, JHill, Bly, RobbyMac, Oldgoat, Starsign, Bigfish Gene, Mod-Zel, Ragedracer. Also, Thanks Fatboy and Roto, I was thinking if you two could do the color chart thing from the tutorial, I'd better keep trying!!!
See attachment of my color chart. It was a 2-page chart. After getting my chart to show up, I took the colors from page two, copied them, made a larger page size (17"x11") and set them next to the colors on page one.
Is there a better way to do that part? Or some way I can get all of the colors to land neatly on the same page? I did set my page size before making my chart, but still got the 8 1/2" x 11" format automatically. If anybody has ideas about how to choose page size in advance, that would be very useful.
Oh, another question... I guess I thought that I could get every color in my PMS charts to print somehow. This chart has 102 colors in it. Can I get more? I sound like an addict now. I am! Haha!
Thanks again everyone!
Signage, Thanks again, I done did it! I don't think I would have gotten there without the group participation, I was giving up too early. Thank you everybody: S'N'S, JHill, Bly, RobbyMac, Oldgoat, Starsign, Bigfish Gene, Mod-Zel, Ragedracer. Also, Thanks Fatboy and Roto, I was thinking if you two could do the color chart thing from the tutorial, I'd better keep trying!!!
See attachment of my color chart. It was a 2-page chart. After getting my chart to show up, I took the colors from page two, copied them, made a larger page size (17"x11") and set them next to the colors on page one.
Is there a better way to do that part? Or some way I can get all of the colors to land neatly on the same page? I did set my page size before making my chart, but still got the 8 1/2" x 11" format automatically. If anybody has ideas about how to choose page size in advance, that would be very useful.
Oh, another question... I guess I thought that I could get every color in my PMS charts to print somehow. This chart has 102 colors in it. Can I get more? I sound like an addict now. I am! Haha!
Thanks again everyone!
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signage
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Suz the chart you ran was your CMYK chart. I found out that the charts that show in the list are the palettes you have open. So if you want a Pantone chart you need to open the Pantone Palette! I have not found a way to make the page bigger, I think you would need to go into the Macro and edit the page size.
Thanks again Brian! Hey, after pushing it a bit further, I figured out how to get the whole Pantone Coated Color list into my palette. Then, using your instructions, make a swatch chart out of it.
Note: This thing is 19 pages long and I'm expanding the page size to poster size. Don't know what the final size is yet, but looks like I need more room. I'm condensing all the info on the 19 pages down to the one poster page. Then I can print it on my materials to see how the colors look. Yay!!!
The color palette will let you customize it to only 7 rows, but that is fine. Much better than all in 1 row! That is it off to the right of coarse. Looks crazy, ha?
I decided that I wanted to include the PMS color numbers, so selected that option. Afterall, what is the purpose of the chart with no PMS numbers?
This is a work in progress, I've got my layout almost have done. Then I'll have a chart I can use to print from. This is the type of chart we had when I worked for the Newspapers and what I went by when designing something for a Customer. the press dept. would pre-print color charts for Sales purposes. The colors would show on the Newsprint material, or whatever material we were going to print the job on. That way, you had a pretty good idea of what your colors would look like when the job went to press.
Thanks again!
Sue
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oldgoatroper
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if you make your template one swatch narrower, you can get each "pagelet" from the pantone book on a single line... (but you'll have a couple more pages...
J Hill Designs
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yeah I use the default 8.5"x11" page size, RIP the whole thing with borders turned on around the pages, then cut em up and I have manila folders with the pages on different materials - alot easier than pulling out the large poster 
Oldgoat & Jhill, Thank you! I will keep playing. This is becoming more automatic. Hey, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Love that!!! 20+ years on computers and I could make a custom color palette, but never made my own custom swatch chart. But then again, I started with Aldus Freehand version 1, and back then the Photoshop that I know now was Aldus Photostyler. I used Pagemaker back then too, not anymore. I used Quark, not anymore. I know, Software for the printing industry has gone through quite a few transitions, acquisitions, and upgrades, whatever. Haha! Dinosaur!
Corel used to seem like a toy program. Now I think I prefer it for my graphics. I do use the Adobe and Corel Suites, but lean toward Corel Illustractor now for my vector work. I do like Adobe Photoshop for bitmaps best still.
I'm so happy!!! Thank you!
Corel used to seem like a toy program. Now I think I prefer it for my graphics. I do use the Adobe and Corel Suites, but lean toward Corel Illustractor now for my vector work. I do like Adobe Photoshop for bitmaps best still.
I'm so happy!!! Thank you!
Poster size
Jhill, Yep, think I'll print charts out in posters and in pages. I wanted posters for my wall, lots of wall space! Then a Customer can walk up and point at a color. Would be cool wallpaper too, for my Art Studio.
You know, I'm an Art f.a.r.t. (Oops, f.a.r.t. is a 4-letter word) who knew? Had to spell it out for y'all, didn't want you to think I'd type any real 4-letter words. Haha!
yeah I use the default 8.5"x11" page size, RIP the whole thing with borders turned on around the pages, then cut em up and I have manila folders with the pages on different materials - alot easier than pulling out the large poster
Jhill, Yep, think I'll print charts out in posters and in pages. I wanted posters for my wall, lots of wall space! Then a Customer can walk up and point at a color. Would be cool wallpaper too, for my Art Studio.
You know, I'm an Art f.a.r.t. (Oops, f.a.r.t. is a 4-letter word) who knew? Had to spell it out for y'all, didn't want you to think I'd type any real 4-letter words. Haha!
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yeah I use the default 8.5"x11" page size, RIP the whole thing with borders turned on around the pages, then cut em up and I have manila folders with the pages on different materials - alot easier than pulling out the large poster
Jhill, thanks again for your ideas here. I went ahead and cut them up into pages and it is more convenient. Decided I really don't want posters, not now anyhow. They turned out great! I used them yesterday when designing some wine labels for a Customer. It was so nice to see the printed colors from my own printer while I was designing. Yay!