After installation, restart Adobe® and go to Window -> Extensions -> Pantone Connect to open the extension.ĭon't see it, or get an error message? Many extensions including Pantone Connect, have had install issues on the Exchange platform. Installation Instructions & Troubleshooting Pantone Color Match Card sold separately. Captured colors are quickly matched to their nearest Pantone Colors and identified for use in your design work. When paired with Pantone's Color Match Card, the Pantone Connect app can calibrate your mobile phone's camera to act as a remarkably accurate color measurement tool. Collaborate – Build consensus and ensure quality control up and down your entire design workflow.Share – Send palettes to everyone who needs to use or review your color schemes.Light & Dark Simulations – Compare your color choices against light and dark backgrounds.Accessibility Support – See how your palettes may appear to people with common color blindness.Color Harmonies and Color Shades – Build smarter palettes leveraging Pantone's powerful color psychology and theory tools to find ideal pairings for your preferred colors.Color Story (SEPTEMBER RELEASE) – NEW mood board function lets you use 1, 3, or 5 images to create a color collage and isolate relevant colors to create your own original color story.View Color Data – Get critical color info including RGB/CMYK/Hex/L*a*b* data.Extract – Isolate colors in digital files and find their nearest Pantone color matches.Convert – Find the nearest RGB/CMYK/Hex/L*a*b* color equivalents to Pantone colors or convert between Pantone colors in different libraries.Measure – Use the Pantone Color Match Card with Pantone Connect Mobile App to capture color inspiration in the real world, wherever you find it.Pick – Select your desired colors for a given project and see Pantone Reference Numbers for each color selected.Search/Finder – View thousands of colors in more than a dozen Pantone libraries to find exactly the colors you want.Pantone Connect key features and tools include: Premium FREE for Three Months with Qualifying Purchaseįor every Pantone Matching System (PMS) or Fashion, Home, + Interiors, (FHI) Book, Guide, or Chip Set, featuring our latest colors and purchased now or in the last 12 months, you get three months of Pantone Connect Premium FREE! Buy 2 qualifying products, get six months FREE! Three products, nine months! Go to and see if you qualify.
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In app, you can upgrade to Pantone Connect Premium, which includes all of Basic, PLUS a dozen more tools to create smarter, more impactful palettes. It includes access to 15,000+ Pantone Colors, Search, Pick, and Measure Tools with Pantone Reference Numbers, and the ability to save and share up to 10 palettes on web, mobile, or Adobe® Extension. Pantone Connect Basic is FREE when you create an account. Packed with easy-to-use tools for inspiration, color extraction, matching, secure storage, and sharing of custom palettes, it's also now the only way to bring dynamic Pantone colors into your Adobe® design programs. Pantone Connect is the only way to access 15,000+ essential brand, print, fashion, and packaging colors for use in your digital design projects. And if it is, the app can be opened just by clicking its icon.Pantone Connect is the digital platform that puts the power of Pantone right in your hands! Ten million designers the world over rely on Pantone for their color-critical decisions. If you have downloaded and installed Photoshop on your computer, the Creative Cloud app is most likely running in the background. Photoshop is updated using the Creative Cloud desktop app.
You'll also learn how to avoid losing your custom settings when updating to a new version, and how to keep the previous version of Photoshop in case you still need it.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Step 1: Open the Creative Cloud desktop app
I show you how to check for Photoshop updates and install them, and how to set up the Creative Cloud app to update Photoshop automatically. So in this first tutorial in my Getting Started with Photoshop series, you'll learn how easy it is to update Photoshop using the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app. Major Photoshop updates are released every six months or so, and minor updates and bug fixes are released all the time. As an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, you always have access to the latest and greatest version of Photoshop.