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Summary: It's All Greek To Me
Review: Before I opened the book I mentioned to my wife that I was certain I would have to wade through how color appreciation began with the Greeks and rested with white people. Needless to say my expectations were met throughout the book.
Because the book negates the appreciation of color by 90% of the people on the planet (including those no longer here)it falls severly short on 'color theory, application and appreciation'. Except for European appreication - a late comer at that - there is little to gain on how people in general are impacted by color. That even white people are impacted beyond their cultural borders by People of Color and their use of color goes far beyond the very narrow, limited and culturally biased interpretations of color these authors present.
It is apparent these author did little to no reseach on the subject. It the authors stuck to an appraisal of color on it merits alone the book would have been better than this treatise.
However, this editon is out of print (thankfully) and is available for under $10.00 used.
There are a few ideas to be gleaned from the subject of blending, juxtaposition, and color schemes. I do like that handy 'pocket guide'.
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Summary: URGENT URGENT URGENT Mac OS 8 fix for Pantone Color Web
Review: From: Steve Urmano, Pantone, Director of Sales There is a bug in System 8's color picker extension which causes the PICS picker to crash the system. We have reported this problem to the Apple OS development team and are awaiting their response. In the meantime, there is a work around to this problem - have the user install the System 7.x color picker extension that ships with ColorWeb. € Before the user installs the System 7.x picker extension, they should place the System 8 color picker extension in the "Disabled Extensions" folder. € Then the user would simply drag-copy the System 7.x Apple Color picker extension from the ColorWeb disk to the System folder for where it will then be placed into the Extensions folder. € Restart the computer PLEASE NOTE: The new System 8 color pickers will work with the System 7.x extension so the user does not lose those features such as the Crayon picker. We feel that the review of this product has been tainted by the bug which at this time Apple has agreed to fix with the next maintenance release of OS 8. Please edit your book list to refer to this fix. We plan to make this fix available on our Web Site (Pantone.com) ASAP.
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Summary: The book's OK, the cd... well...
Review: The book is really interesting about color systems etc. It's a good introduction to color theory. The problem with this kit is the cd, which is supposed to be windows compatible, but forget it. The folders of the html-pages are wrongly named. Copying them to the harddisk, looking at the html-source and renaming the folders can solve this problem. The editors don't recognize this problem. I mailed them, but they said they didn't know about it.Another thing that's really missing is the interaction between book and cd. The theory is nice, but they don't connect to the software. All in all, the book is interesting, especially when you're into webdesign and print too.
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Summary: Excellent Web Color Resource
Review: This package includes an excellent book, but more importantly, a color swatch book. Using the Pantone (R) colorweb swatch, you can quickly locate and apply Internet-safe colors to your Web site. Each color displays a Pantone reference number, RGB values, CMYK values and HTML code to give you the color you need in a variety of entry formats. You'll quickly find various tones of each color and good colors to go with them. The only drawback to this package was the CD-ROM, which is only useful on the Mac. I'd like to see an updated release which also includes at least evaluation versions of Adobe PageMill and Pantone Color Web for the PC.
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