Re: RHS Color chart/Pantone

**L* M* <l*@sbcglobal.net>**

Chris -
The pantone method is good if your photos will be published. A good hort
photog I know, Alan Detrick, shoots one exposure of a pantone card with the
flower he is shooting then uses it for reference when color balancing his
digital file. Then you can open the reference file and use the color picker
in Photoshop to get the color formula off the card in the scene. Some seed
companies are including pantone colors in their wholesale catalogs. So don't
count pantone out - it works in the world of printing presses and can work
in the garden too.
-- 
Larry Maupin  ?
Maupin Photography
Freelance Garden Writer/Photographer
Member, Garden Writers Assoc.
Dallas, TX   214/341-3933

on 12/13/2006 3:28 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey at topica.com@spamfodder.com
wrote:
> I absolutely love the concept behind the RHS and other colo(u)r charts,
> but I wish they'd get with the times and distribute RGB/CMYK component
> values for computer users.
> 
> When I take a photo and need to adjust the colors on my computer,
> knowing what the value should be on my screen is a huge plus.  For that
> reason alone I still use Pantone colors, even though the palette isn't
> targetted towards colors found in nature.
> 
> Then there's the issue of using it in search algorithms (find a plant
> with blue flowers similar to Meconopsis betonicifolia) that can't be
> done without a CMYK/RGB value either.
> 
> Does anyone know of a Pantone <-> RHS conversion chart?  


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