In practice, Adobe won’t touch your existing files, which should continue to work without modification.īut the consequences of the change can still be jarring There, you can see the swatches but can’t use them. The remaining color books have already disappeared from Illustrator, and they now appear as subfolders in “Legacy Swatches,” a new folder in Photoshop’s swatch libraries. Changes, ExplainedĪccording to the help documents linked to the dialog boxes, after November, the only color libraries that will remain will be Pantone + CMYK Coated, Pantone + CMYK Uncoated, and Pantone + Metallic Coated. pantone-connect)-a price that has increased by 88% since January.Īt least on Anderson’s Twitter thread, that bottom line has reignited user backlash about Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription model, which has been in effect for almost a full decade. The upshot is that users who want to continue to have access to the Pantone libraries unabated will need to subscribe to Pantone Connect, the company’s separate monthly subscription service ($14.99 per month or $89.99 per year U.S.

Iain Anderson’s tweet warning designers about the Photoshop changes went viral.

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