Adobe has lost it’s Pantone Swatches, and you can pay to get Pantone, but the functionality is not the same

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design have all lost their Pantone Swatches, and you can pay $15 for a Premium Service, which is supposed to restore some Pantone Functionality, but it is not the same and doesn’t restore the old swatches.

You can now install the Pantone Connect plug in and use a free account, but functionality is not as good.

Obviously this is saving Adobe money, but with the old Pantone swatches becoming unusable even with the paid subscription this is not a great solution.

Adobe Illustrator has been updated with M1 support and the ability to rotate the canvas

This morning Adobe updated Illustrator to version 25.3 it’s June 2021 release. It has 2 new features.

Rotate View has been added. Now you can easily edit in a rotated view and quickly return to a normal view.

And full Apple M1 support has been added.

I do love that Adobe is steadily adding full M1 support to creative cloud.

The Libraries Panel in Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC

Julieanne Kost’s Blog at Adobe has a great article on the Libraries Panel in Photoshop CC.

I really didn’t realize this feature was in there, or how powerful it is, especially with syncing across your creative cloud accounts and Photoshop and Illustrator. Now they really need to add this panel into After Effects, as there are elements I would love to be able to use across all apps.