PRESS RELEASE:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1 Updates Now Available

Adobe has released updates to Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, both available immediately as free upgrades for Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 users. The releases provide added raw file support for 15 digital cameras including the Nikon D90, Nikon D700, Canon EOS 50D and Canon EOS 1000D. The Lightroom 2.1 update also includes improvements to Photoshop integration, Web module stability for Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit operating systems, performance with 64-bit Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh computers, and Keyword migration from Lightroom. A complete list of improvements is available in the Lightroom update documentation.

In addition, Adobe has released a new set of camera profiles available on Adobe Labs. The camera profiles are targeted at improving Adobe’s default raw processing and emulating the colour rendering provided by camera manufacturers. The update includes added support for the Leica M8, Canon EOS 50D, Canon G9, Nikon D90 and Pentax models. Camera profiles are the visual starting point for the raw processing workflow. Since image preferences vary by photographer, Adobe minimizes surprises by supplying default camera profiles that closely emulate the visual looks that photographers normally see from their cameras.

The 15 new digital cameras supported in Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1 include the Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EOS 50D, Fuji FinePix IS Pro, Kodak EasyShare Z1015 IS, Leaf AFi II 6, Leaf AFi II 7, Leaf Aptus II 6, Leaf Aptus II 7, Nikon D700, Nikon D90, Nikon Coolpix P6000, Olympus SP-565 UZ, Pentax K2000, Sigma DP1, and Sony A900. Additionally, Adobe recently released Camera Raw 4.6, which includes the same raw file support for Photoshop CS3 customers.
Pricing and Availability

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 is available as a free download for existing customers at www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/. Photoshop Lightroom 2 can be purchased through the Adobe Store at www.adobe.com/store. The estimated street price is £199.00 ex Vat  for new users with an upgrade price of £79.00 ex Vat for registered users of qualifying Lightroom customers. The updated camera profiles are available as a separate download on Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com.

The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-ins are available as free downloads for existing customers. Camera Raw 5.1 for Photoshop CS4 users and Camera Raw for Photoshop CS3 users are available at www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/.

If you’re looking for a new way to show off your artwork, then consider one of Photobox’s acrylic print options. More details can be found below or at http://www.photobox.co.uk/shop/wall-decor/acrylic-prints.

PRESS RELEASE

Photobox bolsters Wall Décor range with stunning acrylic prints

Customers demand modern ‘masterpiece’ for home interiors

London – 20/10/2008: – Photobox, the UK and Europe’s number one online community for photo printing and personal publishing, has today announced the extension of its Wall Décor range to include Acrylic Prints, perfect for budding interior designers and photographers who want to make the most of their photos. Now anyone can turn their favourite photos into impressive pieces of modern art.

Eight popular sizes are available, from 30cm x 20cm right up to 110cm x 47cm. The image is printed on 220gsm professional photographic paper and affixed to 8mm thick diamond polished acrylic.  The prints are delivered pre-drilled with stylish aluminium fixings.

Priced at £69.99 for a single 30cm x 20cm print, and with volume discounts, these wall mounted acrylics are versatile enough for any interior space and an easy way to bring living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens or offices to life.

Mark Chapman, Managing Director at Photobox confirmed “Our customers have been crying out for acrylic prints as a modern day alternative to canvas prints and poster prints. When we asked customers to rank our product suggestions these shot to the top of the list. ”

To find out more go to http://www.photobox.co.uk/shop/wall-decor/acrylic-prints

If, like us, you’re struggling to think gift ideas for your family, then here are some suggestions for any photographers in your life. David Noton presents a new DVD, book and series of greetings cards using his stunning landscape images. You cna find out more at www.davidnoton.com or in the press release below.

PRESS RELEASE:

LEARN LANDSCAPES WITH DAVID NOTON THIS CHRISTMAS

Stuck for ideas this Christmas?  Trying to think of the perfect gift for the partner that has everything??  Well look no further… here is a trio of perfect gift ideas for any budding landscape photographer.

Learn the art of Landscape Photography from David Noton with his inspirational DVD Chasing the Light – the essential guide to landscape photography.

Chasing the Light is a 90 minute programme, from one of our best known and respected landscape and travel photographers.

During the DVD, David explores the essentials of location photography, location finding, previsualisation, understanding natural light, composition and colour. The film examines the development of a photographic vision with practical hands on demonstrations, insights and examples at a number of inspiring locations - from a misty dawn at Glastonbury to the cliffs of Lands End.

Or if a beautiful book on photography is more your thing, then how about a signed copy of David’s stunning debut book – Waiting for the Light.

Whether an experienced photographer, or just starting out – this book is a perfect gift for any photography enthusiast.

Not only does the book contain more than 150 pages of stunning images from around the globe, David’s ‘photo journals’ provide a riveting insight into the challenges of working in different environments, from deserts to rainforests, cities to mountaintops.

Developing a photographer’s vision is a journey that never ends; one that changes how you view the world.

Both David’s book and DVD embark the reader on that voyage with images from all corners of the globe, supported by practical observations, stories from behind the lens and anecdotes from a lifetime of photographic travels.

Or if it’s a stunning stocking-filler you are after, how about set of Greetings Cards – featuring David’s awe-inspiring landscape images.  There are 5 cards in each set, and four sets to collect – Environments, Tranquillity, Dawn to Dusk and Coastal.

All items are available online at www.davidnoton.com.  Chasing the Light DVD is priced at £19.99 (+P&P), signed copies of Waiting for the Light book are £22.50 (+P&P) and each set of greetings cards is £10.00 (+P&P).

And as a SPECIAL OFFER, anyone purchasing the book online at David’s website before 25th December will also receive a free set of greetings cards worth £10.00.

We’re big fans of Taschen’s art books, so it was pretty exciting to hear that it has opened a new bookshop in London to complement its existing stores in Los Angeles, New York and Paris, with plans for further expansion in the future. For more information, please see the press release below or visit www.taschen.com.

PRESS RELEASE:

TASCHEN opens London store

TASCHEN is delighted to announce the opening of its London store today, 6 October 2008. Located on the newly developed of Duke of York Square, just off the Kings Road, right next to the new Saatchi Gallery, the store will stock the entire range of TASCHEN books covering art, photography, architecture, film, lifestyle, travel, pop culture and sex.

The London store follows the huge success of TASCHEN’s five stores around the world, in Paris, Cologne, New York, Beverly Hills and Hollywood. Like all other TASCHEN stores, the space has been conceived by the world famous French designer Philippe Starck, with a ground floor at street level and a gallery space in the basement.

About TASCHEN
TASCHEN’s Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, to market his massive comic collection. Within a year he began publishing catalogues promoting his wares, but it wasn’t until 1984 that his first art book breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40,000 remainder copies of a Magritte book printed in English, reselling them for a fraction of their original price. From a young age, Taschen had been interested in art but found that art books were too expensive and hard to obtain, and the success of this daring move proved that Taschen was not alone in thinking that the art-book market should be democratized. Soon he began reprinting books under his own name for budget prices and the next year he published his first original title and the first book in the Basic Art series: Picasso. Before long, high-quality-yet-still-inexpensive hardcover books were added to the lineup and in 1989 the landmark double-jumbo Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings hit bookstores around the world.

Starting in the late 1980s, TASCHEN established subsidiaries across the globe and continued to cement its reputation as a publisher of excellent-value books while branching out into new areas such as architecture, design, photography, lifestyle and classics. In 2000, TASCHEN surprised the world by breaking the record for the most expensive book published in the 20th century: copy #1 of Helmut Newton’s SUMO, signed by over 80 celebrities featured in it, fetched a record-breaking $304,000 at a charity auction. A year later TASCHEN launched its cinema collection with Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot. Then, in 2003, TASCHEN tipped the scales with its massive, legendary Muhammad Ali tribute book, GOAT.

Twenty-eight years after Benedikt Taschen opened his little comic shop, TASCHEN has grown into one of the most successful and unique publishers in the global market, publishing an eclectic variety of books for people of all tastes and budget ranges, distributed worldwide in over twenty languages. TASCHEN has opened bookshops in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, and now London, with plans to keep expanding to new cities such as Bruxelles, Berlin and Miami as our Great Adventure continues. For the future of publishing, keep your eye on TASCHEN.

Back in issue 46 of Advanced Photoshop we took a look at a great new web service called ohfolio.com. The service has now officially launched and you can see a couple of great artists’ sites by going to http://ohfolio.com/Manuela/ or http://ohfolio.com/samuelgarton/. The service gives you a professional-looking website without any fuss and it’s low cost too. If you want a great site like the examples shown, then take a visit to ohfolio.com.

OnOne Software has been busy at Photoshop World this year, announcing new Lightroom support for its plug-ins as well as the release of PhotoFrame 4 Standard and Professional Editions. For more information on this new product, see the press release below or visit www.ononesoftware.com.

Press release:

Digital photography software developer announces upgrade to its PhotoFrame plugins that now includes support for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ 2

onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, today announces two significant upgrades to their award-winning applications for adding the perfect finishing touch to digital photos - PhotoFrame 4 Professional and Standard Editions.Now supporting Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software, the photographer’s essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs, the PhotoFrame 4 plugin helps photographers of all skill levels to quickly and easily create one-of-a-kind works of art with their images. PhotoFrame 4 adds details once mastered only in the darkroom like unique edge effects, frames, borders, adornments and texture overlays. Expanding upon onOne Software’s award-winning plug-in for Adobe Photoshop software, PhotoFrame 4 delivers hundreds of new frames, including exclusive content from professional wedding photographers Kevin Kubota and Vicki Taufer, that today’s digital photographers are demanding for their professional and personal work.

PhotoFrame 4 also includes a new easy-to-use frame library with new library management options, updated user-interface, cutting-edge new content, new output options for added user control, and more.

“PhotoFrame has long been the choice of professional and advanced amateur photographers that want to add unique and creative details to their digital photos,” said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. “With PhotoFrame 4 Professional and Standard Editions, we’ve raised the bar even higher by extending the flexibility and functionality and adding high-quality content that is relevant for today’s demanding digital photographers whether they use Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom 2.”

“While photographers are thrilled with Lightroom and the efficiencies of a digital workflow, their images are still art and options for adding realistic edges or borders, as they would have done in the darkroom, are a consistent request,” said Tom Hogarty, Lightroom Product Manager “It’s great to see PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition bring this functionality in an easy to use manner to Lightroom 2.”

“PhotoFrame has always been the solution I’ve used to recreate the authentic look of the darkroom for my digital images and montages,” said Jim DiVitale, professional photographer and Photoshop instructor. “With PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition, onOne Software has added even more authentic content and made it even easier to use by allowing users to resize and adjust multiple frame layers at once.”

“I have always tried to share with my students techniques that give them the best possible results, with the greatest amount of control, with the least amount of steps: ‘Quality, Flexibility & Speed’ is my mantra,” said Jack Davis, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer and author of the best-selling Wow and How to Wow book series. “With the release of PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition, I am one hundred percent comfortable recommending it as THE time-saving solution for creating the highest quality border and edge effects with a truly incredible amount of creative control. I love it!”

New Features in PhotoFrame 4

New Frame Library - The new Library window in PhotoFrame 4 lets users easily search, browse and preview frames, backgrounds, textures and adornments on their image in real time. Users can immediately see just what each frame selection will look like with their image. A new streamlined light table style view allows users to search and sort frames quickly. With the improved preview quality users can zoom in and choose the best frame for every photo.New Library Management Options - New in PhotoFrame 4 is the ability to change the location of the frame library. Photographers can choose the drive and location and even automatically relocate the library later if needed. In addition, photographers who create and add their own frames can have them automatically added to the PhotoFrame 4 Library making them easier to find in the future.

New & Optimized Content - New cutting-edge content has been added to onOne Software’s PhotoFrame 4 allowing photographers to add an exciting and modern look to their photos and albums. The new content includes more realistic film edges along with new texture overlays, backgrounds and adornments. Additionally, the frame content in PhotoFrame 4 has been completely re-mastered providing photographers with a higher quality preview when choosing the best frame for their photo.

New Output Options - The new options palette allows photographers to control how the frames are applied to their photo. Frames, overlays and adornments can be added to the current layer, or a new layer. In addition, frames can be rendered to their own layer allowing for further adjustments or editing in Adobe Photoshop software. Frames from PhotoFrame 4 can even be applied as a layer mask allowing photographers to selectively blend multiple layers together. The output quality of frames in PhotoFrame 4 has been improved for large images and the on-screen preview even displays the layer options just like they will appear in Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Integration - Photographers using Lightroom 2 can easily access their favorite frames, overlays and adornments from within Lightroom 2. Photographers can apply a preset to a single photo or an entire batch of photos. They can even open one photo to adjust the frame settings and then apply it to a selection of additional images. The integration between Lightroom 2 and PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition requires Photoshop CS2 or Photoshop CS3.

Resizing and Adjusting Multiple Frames - PhotoFrame 4 allows photographers to mix, match and combine up to 32 frames together in layers just like in Photoshop. With PhotoFrame 4, photographers can select multiple frame layers and adjust their size, orientation, rotation angle, opacity and more in a single step. Additionally, the background image layer can now be adjusted separately to fit perfectly within the combination of edge effects being added.

Availability and Pricing

PhotoFrame 4 comes in two variations - a Professional Edition and a Standard Edition and are available for $259.95 and $159.95 respectively direct from onOne Software and select, authorized resellers in the United States and around the world.The Professional Edition of PhotoFrame 4 includes all of the functionality of the Standard Edition and adds additional frame, edge and adornment content from some of the top wedding photographers and Photoshop gurus in the industry as well as support for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1.

Both editions of PhotoFrame 4 will be available for electronic download direct from onOne Software and from authorized resellers in DVD format in early to mid October 2008. For a complete list of authorized resellers, please visit http://www.ononesoftware.com/resellers/.

Roxio has announced the launch of a new web service aimed at families who want to turn photos and videos into multimedia slideshows and shared. Full information is in the press release below, or visit www.roxio.com.

Press release:  

Roxio Launches Online Storytelling Platform
Everything Families Need to Easily Capture and Share Life’s Greatest Moments

1 September 2008 - Roxio®, a division of Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, has launched Roxio Online with PhotoShow®, a new Web service that enables families to quickly and simply turn their personal photos and video clips into engaging multimedia slideshows that can be shared privately with selected contacts.

Families and others can begin to create unique personal stories that can be shared and enjoyed on PCs, DVDs, TVs, handhelds, and popular social media sites, all through a free subscription available at: http://www.roxio.com/go/online.

Whether it is photos or footage shot during a recent holiday, wedding or other important family event, Roxio Online makes it easy and fun to turn these personal memories into an expressive multimedia slideshow complete with rich special effects and transitions, creative animations and captions, and a professional soundtrack.

“There is nothing more gratifying than being able to share the joys of our lives with the ones closest to us,” said Matt DiMaria, general manager of the Roxio division of Sonic Solutions. “With busy schedules and physical distances, photos and videos play an integral part in how we communicate in today’s digital world. Roxio Online brings families together by not only making it easier than ever to create unique stories to instantly share with relatives across the globe but also by providing a complete storytelling platform that appeals to any memory keeper.”

Consumers can test-drive the service and create PhotoShow presentations for free, and then subscribe to the premium service, which unlocks a host of additional creation and sharing capabilities. Premium subscribers are able to select from over 150 one-click themes that suit any occasion, enhance their story with over 500 animated graphics, add a commentary with more than 40 different title and caption treatments, and then pick the perfect accompanying soundtrack from more than 400 licensed professional music tracks.

To see a visual demonstration of Roxio Online in action visit: http://www.roxioonline.com/watch/iT5Bp3Ag, or to read about the experience of Dave Habiger, Sonic CEO and president, with PhotoShow go to: http://blog.roxio.com/mymoments/2008/08/making_digital_connections.html.

Bringing authors and viewers together, Roxio Online users can create a free web page with channels dedicated to specific events or occasions and share shows with family and friends by embedding final productions in popular sites like MySpace and Facebook or personal blogs such as Blogger. Users can also add a PhotoShow channel to their MSN, Yahoo, or Google pages or to their iTunes Podcast library.

Pricing and Availability
Roxio Online with PhotoShow® is available free of charge. The Roxio Online premium service is priced at £24.99 a year and is available now at http://www.roxio.com/go/online. Users of Roxio’s new Creator 2009 are able to benefit from a special introductory discount during the first month of registration and can purchase the premium service for £19.99 a year.

An option of purchasing a DVD containing your own personalized PhotoShow presentations is also available and is priced at £19.99 each.

More news from Pantone is that the ColorMunki Create is now shipping. We were very impressed with the ColorMunki when we reviewed it in issue 45 and think it’s a great way to create custom colour palettes with no hassle. See the press release below or visit www.pantone.com for more information.

Press release:

PANTONE ColorMunki Create Ships
Providing Innovative Colour Creation and Control for Creative Professionals

London, UK, Sept., 2, 2008 – Pantone, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for the design industries, today announced that PANTONE® ColorMunki™ Create, an intuitive software and hardware solution for creating, managing, searching, verifying and sharing colour palettes, is now shipping. An affordable, simple starting point for designers whose primary objective is colour palette creation, ColorMunki Create is part of the ColorMunki portfolio.

“With its intuitive software user interface, ColorMunki Create helps designers navigate through the colour identification and specification process more efficiently, offering a variety of ways to select colours and create palettes in a safe viewing environment,” said Andy Hatkoff, vice president of advanced colour solutions for Pantone. “With the addition of basic monitor calibration capabilities, ColorMunki Create also ensures designers that the colours they are viewing onscreen are accurate.”

ColorMunki Create automates colour palette creation with a variety of tools for colour selection. Colours can be chosen from system-level colour pickers, PANTONE Color Libraries including the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® and PANTONE Goe™, keyword searches or colour harmonies. ColorMunki can identify and extract colours from images, saving valuable time in the design process. Users of ColorMunki Create have the ability to snap any colour from a built-in library to PANTONE Colors. Palettes can then be seamlessly imported into popular design applications including Adobe® Creative Suite® and QuarkXPress®, as well as other industry-standard applications. A palette synchronisation function will automatically update any changes in palettes to the design applications.

ColorMunki Create also includes a monitor calibrator to ensure colours are viewed accurately onscreen. The PrintSafe™ feature, a unique verification tool, is a one-click, out-of-gamut preview by paper type that will alert users as to which colours in their palettes are achievable or not on different paper stocks.

Users can preview palettes for CMYK or spot colour printing with the Snap To feature, and easily predict how palette colours will reproduce in different print situations. Colours can also be evaluated under varying light sources.

ColorMunki Portfolio
The ColorMunki portfolio includes ColorMunki Photo, ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Create, and is supported by www.colormunki.com, an online portal of resources and information for fully leveraging colour creation, control and communication solutions. Easily integrated into digital workflows, ColorMunki products enable photographers and designers in multiple industries, including graphic design, printing, publishing, fashion, home, interior, architecture and industrial design, to create and produce their work with more freedom, flexibility and colour assurance.

ColorMunki Design
Developed for agencies, corporate in-house and freelance designers, ColorMunki Design offers the same innovative palette creation and control software as ColorMunki Create, plus an all-in-one spectrophotometer that easily captures colours from any surface, and calibrates monitors, printers and projectors for true monitor-to-print colour matching. A white calibration tile is integrated into the device so there’s nothing to lose. In addition to the colors from a built-in library, ColorMunki Design can also snap any custom colour to PANTONE Colors. An upgrade path to ColorMunki Design will be available for ColorMunki Create users.

Pricing, Availability and System Requirements
ColorMunki Create is available immediately at www.colormunki.com for an SRP of U.S. $149. It is also available at Amazon.com, Apple stores, Buy.com, Fry’s Electronics, Micro Center, newegg.com, PC Mall, Ingram Micro and Zones, as well as other photo, design, major electronics and online retailers. Additional PANTONE Color Libraries will be available from the Pantone Web site at www.pantone.com. ColorMunki Create is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and higher and Windows® XP and higher.

Pantone has announced the launch of two new products to expand the Pantone Goe System, which we reviewed in issue 44 of Advanced Photoshop giving it a whopping 5 out of 5 score. Find otu more at www.pantone.com or in the press release below.

Press release:

Pantone Extends Goe System with GoeBridge coated and PANTONE Color Cue 2.1

London, UK, Sept. 2, 2008 – Pantone, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for the design industries, today announced two new products that extend the PANTONE® Goe™ System – PANTONE GoeBridge™ coated and PANTONE Color Cue® 2.1. PANTONE GoeBridge lets creatives accurately visualise and evaluate how the more than 2,000 solid colors in the PANTONE Goe System will reproduce in CMYK on coated paper. By providing conversion formulas for CMYK, sRGB and HTML in a single guide, GoeBridge empowers designers to easily and confidently repurpose projects for multiple colour spaces, saving valuable time and avoiding costly mistakes.

Additionally, Pantone began shipping PANTONE Color Cue 2.1, the latest version of Pantone’s award-winning, portable colour identification device, which now includes the PANTONE Goe coated and uncoated libraries, as well as the CMYK values from GoeBridge. Both products enable designers to work with the same familiar PANTONE tools they’ve become accustomed to over the years with the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM®, and ensure consistent colour across design workflows.

“One of the most frequently asked questions about the Goe System is when will there be a guide to accurately compare solid Goe colours to CMYK conversions,” said Richard Herbert, executive vice president and general manager of Pantone. “GoeBridge is exactly what designers have been asking for – the guide displays the closest possible CMYK match for each solid Goe colour, preventing colour surprises and expensive errors when clients try to print Goe colours in four-colour process. We’ve also included sRGB and HTML data for repurposing colours for the Web, which make this an indispensible tool for a variety of design projects.”

“At Landor, the majority of our work centers on branding – where colour is a critical component,” said John H. Bredenfoerder, design director at Landor Associates. “As designers, we never know what type of media a particular brand will touch, so for each project we develop a brand style book that includes the colour conversions for print and Web reproduction to ensure repeatability and colour consistency. GoeBridge will simplify colour conversion and specification across the design process – regardless of the final medium.”

PANTONE GoeBridge coated
Although many PANTONE Goe colours can be successfully reproduced in four-colour process, some cannot because of the inherent gamut limitations of process printing. GoeBridge displays all 2,058 Goe colours in a portable, fan guide format on coated stock alongside their closest four-colour process equivalent. The CMYK values are provided for each process colour and sRGB and HTML values are included for the solid colours, extending the guide’s multimedia capabilities to Web design.
The PANTONE GoeBridge coated guide is produced in a sustainable manner to meet certification standards set forth by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an independent organisation that promotes responsible management of the world’s forests. Products carrying the FSC label are certified to assure consumers that they come from forests managed to meet the social, economic and ecological needs of present and future generations (Certificate Code SW-COC-003183).

The guide is printed using ISO-certified inks on No. 1 grade, 100-pound text-weight coated offset stock.

PANTONE Color Cue 2.1
Color Cue 2.1 now features seven PANTONE Libraries including the complete PANTONE Goe System, both coated and uncoated. Users have access to more than 11,000 PANTONE Colors for use in the architecture, interior design, graphic design and printing and publishing industries. Color Cue 2.1 also includes a new LCD screen with configurable displays for easy viewing. The device records the last 30 colours measured for later reference and is powered by a standard nine-volt battery that lasts for thousands of measurements.

In addition to the Goe library, Color Cue 2.1 includes the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM for coated, uncoated and matte stock, as well as the PANTONE FASHION + HOME SMART Color System and the PANTONE PAINT + INTERIORS Color Libraries.

PANTONE Goe System
The PANTONE Goe System, announced in September 2007, is the first completely new colour inspiration and specification system for the graphic arts industry since the introduction of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM in 1962. The System, bringing 2,058 new PANTONE Colors to market, is comprised of the PANTONE GoeGuide™, PANTONE GoeSticks™, myPANTONE™ palettes, an intuitive software toolset for palette creation, and now PANTONE GoeBridge.

Industry Support
The PANTONE Goe System libraries are accessible in ColorMunki™ Design and ColorMunki Create, part of the first family of jointly developed products from
X-Rite and Pantone announced in March 2008. ColorMunki products offer users a digital counterpart to GoeBridge. The CMYK, sRGB and HTML simulations available in GoeBridge will be accessible within ColorMunki products to bridge analog and digital design. ColorMunki products offer GoeBridge users additional flexibility by providing CMYK simulations for a variety of papers and printing processes. Visit www.colormunki.com for more information.

The PANTONE Goe System is also supported by a number of industry leaders. Among those developing solutions to integrate the system into diverse workflows are Corel, EFI, HP, Xerox and Quark. Visit www.pantone.com/goe for a full list of partners.

To access Goe colors within Adobe® Creative Suite® applications, users can download the coated, uncoated and, starting in October, GoeBridge libraries free of charge at www.pantone.com/goe.

Pricing and Availability
The PANTONE GoeBridge coated will be available in October 2008 for the introductory price of £82.00 excl. VAT / £97.58 incl. VAT. PANTONE Color Cue 2.1 is available immediately for the introductory price of £239.00 excl. VAT / £284.41 incl. VAT

Available in coated and uncoated versions, the complete PANTONE Goe System, including the GoeGuide, GoeSticks and myPANTONE palettes software, is available for £342. The complete system, as well as individual products, can be purchased from the Pantone Web site at www.pantone.com, or from select distribution partners.

We’ve just received the latest news from Heisuke Kitazawa (or PCP) over at www.hypehopewonderland.com. As previous Insight artist, it’s always good to see new works and we’re sure you’ll be just as excited.

First, PCP has designed six limited-edition boxes for Kenzo Parfums, details of which can be seen on PCPWEB. Through the PCPSTORE you can also buy limited-edition Giclee prints, printed on thick etching paper and there are just 50 copies of each print available. Finally, PCP as also been working on the artwork for Her Space Holiday’s new album, ‘xox, panda and the new kid revival’ out on 7 October.

Chek it all out at www.hypehopewonderland.com now!