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iang37044865
iang37044865
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June 8, 2023
Question

Implementing out of Gamut Warning in Color Picker

  • June 8, 2023
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Hello,

I'm having trouble resolving a mystery here. I recall Photoshop's color picker having the option to display out of gamut color zones as grayed out areas. 

 

I cannot seem to find this function now (Im using version 24.4.1). 

Here is a picture of how it used to look (greyed out zones in color picker). 

Is this no longer a feature in photoshop or am I doing something wrong? I've tried turning on gamut warning but it doesnt affect color picker.

Thanks


    2 replies

    do77709026
    do77709026
    Known Participant
    January 19, 2025

    hello sorry but how do you acceed to to grey zone out of gamut on photoshop 2024 or 2025?

    Conrad_C
    Community Expert
    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 19, 2025

    Same as always…the command View > Gamut Warning.

     

    do77709026
    do77709026
    Known Participant
    January 20, 2025

    Thank you, I know this, but the shortcut for only activate the unprintable gamut when you are into color picker background window, is not easy findable and it can be ponctually very usefull.

    It's SHIFT+COMMAND+Y

     

    Thanks for you attention an wish I you the best.

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 8, 2023

    It's under View > Gamut warning, shift+ctrl+Y

     

    But honestly, that function is next to useless because it doesn't tell you how much out of gamut.

     

    Soft proof is vastly more useful. It gives you direct visual feedback - how it will actually look.

     

    Also, don't forget the good old histogram. If any one channel is solidly backed up against 0 or 255, you have gamut clipping, and you see at a glance how bad it is. The histogram is an instant health check.

      iang37044865
      iang37044865Author
      Participant
      June 9, 2023

      Hm. Any reason why it wouldn't appear? I've reset my settings, and tried out both Photoshop and Photoshop Beta. It doesnt show those greyed out zones in the color picker when I turn on Gamut Warning with the shortcut

      iang37044865
      iang37044865Author
      Participant
      June 11, 2023

      Some ideas…

       

      You say it doesn’t work with the shortcut, but does it work if you choose the command from the menu as D Fosse described (View > Gamut Warning)? The purpose of this question is to eliminate the possibility that something else on the system is intercepting the keyboard shortcut. The menu command should always work. It works on my Mac, in Photoshop version 24.5. Another thing to check is that the shortcut is still assigned to View > Gamut Warning, because if it was customized it might do something else.

       

      As far as I can tell, Gamut Warning seems to check against the gamut of the CMYK working space set up in Edit > Color Settings. What is your CMYK working space set to? This question comes from noticing that the color picker gamut warning area changes depending on that CMYK working space profile. I thought Gamut Warning in the color picker would check against the current Proof Setup color space, as Proof Colors does, but that doesn’t seem to change the gamut warning area like the CMYK working space does.

       

      Also, what is the color space of the document itself?


      The color space is RBG. Though I also tried changing it to CMYK and it also doesnt work.

      The gamut warning appears in the actual image, but not in the color picker. 

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