Review: myPANTONE app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (and Android)

[labricoleuse]

I went ahead and splurged on the myPANTONE app, which seemed almost too good to be true: the entire Pantone color library accessible on my iPad, anywhere, any time? Think of what a fantastic resource that would be as a dyer!

But myPANTONE at $9.99 is fairly expensive for an app...at least it seems that way until you start looking at the pricetags

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Not a designer, but I'm interested in the computer monitor vs reality rendering

[rojagato]

I'm engaged in the ultimate of vanity projects, trying to match fabrics and paints to the artworks I've made and acquired -- for me, that entails physically going to Zimman's or to Waters & Brown with a swatch. I considered buying myPantone, but there's such a gulf between the real thing and one's mobile device, and again to one's legacy color printer.

So I bailed and found a place that sold me the Pantone swatch set at the student rate ($60 for the sub-par paper set, flat and gloss). I bookmark the swatches that most closely match the dominant colors in the art. If I knew how much back-and-forth that would entail, I would have just grabbed a bunch of chip cards from the paint store. Thank goodness that Landry & Acari have a liberal exchange policy on their rugs.

I suppose that's what interior decorators do; the situation is a lot different for stagecraft?

Re: Not a designer, but I'm interested in the computer monitor vs reality rendering

[labricoleuse]

Interior decorating has one stark difference from stagecraft, and that is control over the light in which the wall/carpet/drapes will be seen. You either have natural light or the lighting in the room itself. Color control in the theatre in terms of the stage picture an audience sees is not just about what color a costume is, but also what the various stagelights do to the colors of the textiles onstage. So, you can only exert so much control in your dyejob--something that matches a paint chip beautifully in the dye shop may wind up looking completely different onstage if the scene is full of amber light, blue light, etc