RAL colours in Adobe Photoshop 3.x-5.x

Simply choose "Window/Show Color/Replace Color" to load the desired RAL palette. When colouring the objects (e.g. a house facade) try whatever RAL colours come to mind. Photoshop's layer technology makes it easy.

 

Versions	Windows: 3.x and up; Macintosh: 3.x and up
File format	aco
Colours	RAL CLASSIC: 210 RAL EFFECT: 490
Optimizations	Standard RGB Trinitron RGB Offset printing coated paper Offset printing uncoated paper Newsprint
Application for	pixel-oriented painting, all tools
Ergonomics	**(*)

 

Destination Directory

Adobe Photoshop 3.0	Photoshop/Paletten
Adobe Photoshop 4.0	Adobe/Photoshop 4.0/ Paletten
Adobe Photoshop 5.0	Adobe/Photoshop 5.0/ Goodies/Color Palettes

The adherence to this destination path is not necessary for the availability of the palettes in the program.

In this program variant the RGB palettes (sRGB, Trinitron) were defined in CMYK. To achieve this the neutral colour part was substituted by 100% Black (100% GCR).

 

Usage of RAL colours in Adobe Photoshop 3.x-5.x

1. Open Photoshop and go to „Window/Palettes/Show colour fields“.
2. Click on the little arrow in the upper right corner of the colour field window and select „Exchange colour fields“.
3. Open the directory „Palettes“ and select the wanted palette of the above named files.
4. Use the corollary card to find the wanted RAL colour in the palette.
5. Design in RAL colours!

Due to the conditions in Photoshop 3-5 it is not possible to display the colour names in the palette. The position of each RAL colour in the colour palette is shown in the pdf file „Begleitkarte.pdf“ in the CD-ROM palette directory of Photoshop 3-5.

Photoshop 6 was fundamentally modified by Adobe: Colour names are displayed in the palette, the corollary card is not needed anymore.

 

Painting a facade in RAL colours.

 

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