convert to pantone

[iisthphir]

I was wondering if there is a way to simply convert an entire image to pantone colours without having to change channels individually? from googling i havent seen anywhere that it is possible, though i would have thought it would be simply an image adjustment.
Please do tell how

 

[Scott20015]

No way that I am aware of...

Pantones aren't a mix of 4 standard colors like CMYK or 3 colors like RGB, each color is a unique recipe, each shade of that color is another recipe, each hue of those shades is another recipe...etc, you get the idea.

 

[iisthphir]

Pantone is a library of definitions for specific colours you could say, many of which require the mixing of 15 pigments. My use for them is most likely limited to net and printing so the subset that can be produced with cmyk will do just fine for my needs. Photoshop (cs5) includes a library of pantone colours in the colour picker if you select 'colour libraries' so being that it can use them my question is if there is a batch process to automatically convert all colours to the closest cmyk derived pantone equivalent so i dont have to do it by hand, and if not why on earth not! its not a particularly complex thing to code i imagine, but i have not the time to cade stuff like that right now.
Anyway thanks for replying and if anyone does know, please let me know
thank you

 

[Scott20015]

Just a few more thoughts on your question...

1) Why would you need all the colors in pantone? There is no way any project would be printed this way because each pantone is a seperate plate (also called a bump plate) and it would be extremely costly to run all those plates.

2) Maybe pantone themselves have devised a way to do this...but I doubt it for the reason listed above. Pantones just aren't used the way you'd like so the conversion process you desire hasn't been written.

Sorry bro, hope this helps.