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Paul A. Brown
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September 30, 2025
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No gamut warning grey areas in Photoshop

  • September 30, 2025
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I recently noticed that the grey areas in the colour picker and on my images to show colours outside of the printable colour range have disappeared. When I click view-gamutwarning nothing happens to the image and I know there are colour adjustments that need doing. The greyed out area of the colour picker has gone so there's no way to pick safe colours from there anymore.

I'm using Photoshop 26.11.0 release and haven't made any changes to the setup so I'm thinking this has happened due to an update but can't be sure.

Can anybody help please because it's a really important part of getting my work from the desktop and into print.

Thanks.

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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September 30, 2025

What is your proof setup? Print where and how? 

 

Gamut warning shows areas that are out of gamut according to your proof setup. The default is "working CMYK", so if everything is default, what CMYK profile do you have as working space? And are you sure it's the right profile for the process?

 

If printing on an inkjet printer, that won't apply. Then you need to set proof to the correct profile for the printer and paper you're using.

 

And with all that said, it's always possible that no colors are actually out of gamut in the target/proof profile.

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    Paul A. BrownAuthor
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    September 30, 2025

    I always have to adjust the reds and yellows in an image when its been imported and the most recent one has no need for adjustment. I haven't changed any of my settings and it worked perfectly before, I am getting the gamut warning grey on the colour picker that pops up independently but not the one that's part of the main window workspace.

    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    September 30, 2025

    Try a test. Add a layer and on it fill a rectangle with RGB 255,0,0. That should be well out of gamut for printer inks.  Does that show grey when you select View > Gamut Warning? 
    Dave

      davescm
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      davescmCommunity Expert
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      September 30, 2025

      Before using View > Gamut Warning, have you used View > Proof Setup > Custom and selected the profile for the printer/ink/media combination you are using?

      Dave

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        Paul A. BrownAuthor
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        September 30, 2025

        It's set up with the print profiles from the printers I use, they've always worked seamlessly. 

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