Affinity Photo Ipad v2 - Pantone Profiles For Textile Industry & Finding Pantone Number Of A Color

[Mainecoon364]

 

Question 1) Color Studio - Swatches - Pantone Profiles 

 

Here there are many Pantone Profiles (Pantone Presets)

 

Which one should I use for Fashion Textile Industry?

 

Question 2) How To Learn The Pantone Code Of A Color On The Canvas?

 

 

 

[NotMyFault]

3 hours ago, Mainecoon364 said:

Which one should I use for Fashion Textile Industry?

This question should be asked to the client. 
 

 

3 hours ago, Mainecoon364 said:

Question 2) How To Learn The Pantone Code Of A Color On The Canvas?

You can inspect the numbers in the swatch panel, when the extended view is available.

color names used within the document cannot be shown inside the app.

maybe exporting to pdf and inspecting by a more capable app will help

1. select the layer
2. add current fill or stroke to document palette (created before)
3. the Pantone color name is shown inside the palette in the extended mode is active

 

[NotMyFault]

The method below is not required, but helps to stay organized anyway.
 

I would recommend to add all used Pantone colors inside a document to a document palette. Then add a rectangle for every color and assign the color to it. Rename the layer to match the Pantone code, or add a text label. Select same color will show the candidates.

the layer or artboard containing the used color rectangle can be excluded from export in export persona.

[Mainecoon364]

Step 1) I create a Swatch on the canvas. 

Rectangle filled with a color. 

 

Step 2) I go to “Colors Studio - Swatches - Pantone Profile - Choose a profile here”

 

Step 3) Choose Move Tool and click the Swatch I created on the canvs

 

But now the fill colors are not shown in 

 

“Colors Studio - Swatches - Pantone Profile - Chosen Pantone Profile”

 

???

[NotMyFault]

[Mainecoon364]

Step 1) Color Studio - Swatches - Add Document Palette

 

Step 2) I choose the Swatch with the Move Tool on the Canvas. (Rectangle Filled With A Color)

 

Step 3) Color Studio - Swatches - Add Current Fill To Palette

 

It adds the code there but as R, G, B. (Unlike yours)

 

“Not Pantone!”

 

How could you do It?

[NotMyFault]

Show how you created the rectangles in a video.

Probably the colors are no PANTONE Colors (not made by creating a vector shape and using one of the existing standard Affibity scratches to colorize them).

or the rectangles are pixel layers (rasterized). Only vector layers will memorize the swatches where they come from. Pixel layers only know the RGB/CMYK color channel values.

 

[NotMyFault]

To be clear: there is no function in Affinity apps to identify if given RGB or CMYK color values match any of the PANATONE swatches.

you would need to use a different tool, or excel (write all PANATONE color names and RGB color values into a table, use search.

You could do this visually within Affinity apps:

• create a document with 32x32 px individual rectangles covering the canvas (size is arbitrary, everything over 4 px which is perfectly pixel aligned will do)
• color each in a one of the PANATONE colors
• put your layer on top, set blend mode to difference. Use pattern layer in Photo or bitmap fill to rectangle in (designer) to habe it in full canvas size. Do not stretch pixel layers as this will cause semitransparence
• Now the patch wich is shown 100% black is identifying the used PANATONE color. A levels adjustment with white level set to 100% will boost the contrast so only one rectangle will stay black.

 

PANATONE detector.afpub

[NotMyFault]

Example online service 

https://colorfrompicture.com/pantone-color-from-image/

[Alfred]

38 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

PANATONE

*PANTONE

(i.e. PAN-TONE, not PAN-A-TONE)

[NotMyFault]

8 minutes ago, Alfred said:

*PANTONE

(i.e. PAN-TONE, not PAN-A-TONE)

Alfred you know that all my mistakes are made intentionally to just make you busy 😆

[NotMyFault]

Fyi: the spell correction works against me and offers false corrections all the time in case a word is misclassified in language.

When I write fast I don’t notice the auto corrections immediately. Some are very funny.

despite writing in English spell correction erratically jumps to German

 

[Mainecoon364]

Your steps does not make sense for me at all here. 

 

On the screenshot video I shared. 

 

I choose the swatch I created with the move tool then go to the pantone swatch section but It does not show the pantone code there. 

???

 

 

 

Maybe we have to create swatches in RGB colors then create a pantone swatches to MATCH these with RGB swatches. 

So we are trying to find THE MATCHING PANTONE COLOR at the pantone section. (Which is very exhausting)

Does the app work in this way?

 

[NotMyFault]

24 minutes ago, Mainecoon364 said:

I choose the swatch I created with the move tool then go to the pantone swatch section but It does not show the pantone code there. 

 

Affinity does not work that way. It does not show any „matching“ Pantone colors to those active in color panels (as RGB colors).

I provided

1. A video tutorial how you can do a match manually in Affinity photo
2. one example link of an online services doing this automatically for you.

It seems you are again not even reading my post, or try to fully absorb all informations available there.

may others step in trying to explain better. I‘m exhausted.

[Mainecoon364]

On your tutorial;

 

As far as I understand you tried to find the matching RGB colors of the Pantone colors. (You said “Have all PANTONE colors ready as rectangles”)

 

I do Not want that. 

 

I want to the opposite.

 

I want to find the Pantone equivalents of the RGB colors.

 

???

[Alfred]

58 minutes ago, Mainecoon364 said:

I want to find the Pantone equivalents of the RGB colors.

The Affinity apps don’t have that ability built in, so you’ll have to use a tool such as this one instead:

https://www.coderstool.com/rgb-pantone

[NotMyFault]

2 hours ago, Mainecoon364 said:

 

On your tutorial;

 

As far as I understand you tried to find the matching RGB colors of the Pantone colors. (You said “Have all PANTONE colors ready as rectangles”)

 

I do Not want that. 

 

I want to the opposite.

 

I want to find the Pantone equivalents of the RGB colors.

 

???

My tutorial shows how to identify the best matching Pantone colors based on any sampled color.

But it requires you to have the Pantone colors present in the document as color chart.

[Mainecoon364]

 

Im trying to interpret what you did there.

 

I don’t understand the steps you mentioned as well.

 

So I wrote my steps as far as I understand.

 

Step 1!!!) You created a layer called “Pantone Layer” Somehow It contains Pantone colors already???

 

Step 2) You created a layer called “Candidate Layer.”

 

Step 3) Took sample from the “Pixel Layer”

 

Step 4) Fill the swatch with the taken sample.

 

Step 5) Repeat the Steps 3 and 4.

 

Step 5!!!) I don’t understand what you did on this Pantone Layer at all.

 

 

 

 

[Mainecoon364]

Answers???

[NotMyFault]

Let us step back for a moment. What do you want to achieve?

a - get the name of a Pantone color from an existing swatch in Affinity apps, based on RGB colors sampled in a document? Only exact match will count. If the RGB values are not found, that is ok.
b - get the name of a Pantone color, no matter if a palette and swatch exists in Affinity? I just need the „nearest“ Pantone color name.

 

[NotMyFault]

And a saw (different thread) that you picked colors from an existing photo, like a t-shirt or jeans containing millions of different colors due to texture, fabrics, wrinkles and lighting. Those textiles don’t have only one color, but a huge spectrum of multiple colors. I don’t get what you want to achieve. Designers usually use a small set of defined colors, and do not pick random colors. If you have a photography of a real world scene, you can’t pick exact Pantone colors. The color you pick is meaningless / useless, as it is random where the color picker landed. At least you would need to make a selection, copy flattened, and use average blur to get one single meaningful color.

Affinity color pickers somehow factor this in and either do forced average or 3x3 px, or allow to set the number of pixels to be considered for averaging (color picker tool / color panel picker).

[Mainecoon364]

“The color you pick is meaningless / useless, as it is random where the color picker landed. At least you would need to make a selection, copy flattened, and use average blur to get one single meaningful color.“

 

Yes we can get the average tone of the area, create an RGB swatch from that average.

 

Then how can I find the matching Pantone color of that average swatch.

 

?

[NotMyFault]

Then how can I find the matching Pantone color of that average swatch - form which PANTONE palette? those build-in in Affinity?

[NotMyFault]

The best way:

1. pick the color
2. set color panel to RGB hex
3. copy 6 later hex code
4. open https://encycolorpedia.com/
5. paste in code
6. click search

 

You can just add the hex color number to the URL to directly get to the answer, e.g.

https://encycolorpedia.com/6cd1ef

leads to PANTONE Blue 0821 U

[Mainecoon364]

Ok.

 

As far as I know We can not learn or match the pantone colors on the app directly

 

Then I’ll use https://www.coderstool.com/rgb-pantone

 

Thanks anyway.