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kianho
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November 23, 2016
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The view of the color gamut has changed. Why and how can I bring back the old view

  • November 23, 2016
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Hello.

I am an illustrator working on a project in CMYK. About 2 days ago, I had problems with photoshop which were resolved by renaming a preferences folder.

Since then, the view of the CMYK color gamut has changed. It used to grey out the areas that were out of range. Now it doesn't.

How can I revert back to that first very useful view?

Thanks.

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davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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November 23, 2016

Have you checked the setting of  Preferences - Transparency and Gamut - Gamut warning and selected the colour and opacity

This selects the colour for use when View Gamut warning is checked

The warning shows what is out of gamut in the space set in "proof set up". If your image mode is the same as the proof set up you will not see a warning as, by definition the image colours are in gamut.

Dave

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kianhoAuthor
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November 23, 2016

First off, thanks for your responses. I have always relied on the gamut warnings when drawing in psd. I am on Photoshop CC2017. Up until a few days ago the color picker greyed out the colors which were out of the gamut range. Because I can't show you how it looked a few days ago, I am adding a screenshot of how it looks in CS6:

This is also how it appeared in my current psd up until a few days ago.

Now the greyed out area is missing. Maybe I am overlooking something in one of the panels—a box to check or something. I would like the following to look like the color picker above.

Mind you, I do have the gamut warning turned on and I draw in proof modus. Although it might seem like a slight inconvenience to some, because the warning triangle is shown, the missing 'out-of-gamut' range that you see in the first image has been an extremely helpful tool for me.

How can I get that back?

Thanks.

ps Davescm: My preference pane is set up just as yours is and I have the Gamut warning und View checked.

D Fossie: I usually don't refer to the histogram unless I am importing images.

davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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November 23, 2016

Hi Kainho

You have to check Gamut warning with the Color Picker open. Then you see this :

If you have those same settings then all I can suggest is reset the preferences and see if that clears your issue.

Dave

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    November 23, 2016

    I assume that must be View > Gamut Warning, shift+ctrl+Y.

    I never use that, I use soft proof or just look at the histogram and individual channels to see where clipping occurs.

    The problem is that it doesn't show you how much out of gamut, and you don't know where they put the threshold. It seems to me a very unreliable indicator.

    Anyway - trying it now, it seems to work very erratically. I wouldn't trust it at all.

    Trevor.Dennis
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    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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    November 23, 2016

    What version of Photoshop are you using?
    What operating system?

    Can you show us a screen shot of the panel you are referring to?    Just copy to the clipboard, and paste here with Ctrl v (Cmd v)

    Thanks

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