Selecting a color by its Pantone color name in Photoshop

are you sure you have got the correct number?
http://www.australiasigns.com.au/qsonline/PMS-color-chart.html

It should show up there. It does in mine, anyways.

Hi BongSoo, metallic was the key. Thanks!
Before I award the points and close out the question, where do I type the color name in order to bring it up in the color list?

-John

Make sure you click in the window that displays the swatches, and then just type the #.

There is no window that displays swatches in the color dialog, only Picker and Custom.

By window, I mean the acutal color representation in the dialogue box.

I'm working in Photoshop CS.  There is nowhere to type in the Custom window (the one with the Pantone Colors).  The other window has a field for manual entry, but it won't accept the PMS Prefix. If I enter 285C, it produces some other color than Pantone's 285C.

Does your color dialog box have a third window other than Custom and Picker?

This is what it looks like in mine (CS2):

http://www.ben-nall.com/images/Picture%202.png

There is no dialogue box. You click on the colors and then type in 285. Don't bother with the C, just make sure you have the Pantone Solid Coated library chosen, and you are good to go (Thats what the C stands for).

and with the metallic you mentioned above:

http://www.ben-nall.com/images/Picture%203.png

again, just type the #. no prefix no suffix.

VongSoo.

Yeah, that's exactly what mine looks like.  So where do you type #?

John

You know, I could swear I tried that a while ago but if I did,I must have been so wrapped up in my frustration that I didn't even look at the color chart and just moved on!  Duh!

Thanks for sticking with this.

John