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February 18, 2024
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Out of gamut colors in vector images

  • February 18, 2024
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Hi, I'm wondering how the fellow contributors handle the out of gamut colors in their vector images. Those bright colors are eye catching and nice in RGB mode, but if the customers download the images to print them out, the colors might not look as bright as they look on screen. Any suggestions?

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daniellei4510
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February 18, 2024

What @Abambo said. And, of course, except possibly for very specialized printing processes and the types of paper used, printed colors will not look as bright as they do on screen. Those are adjustments our brains need to make on the fly. Images viewed by reflected light are seldom a match for those viewed by transmitted light.

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Abambo
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February 18, 2024

That's an eternal problem. It depends on the skill and the possibilities of the buyer if they can handle that. And they will need to make tradeoffs. So either you supply assets completly in line of the limited CMYK gamut, or you ignore that, and hope that the buyer knows what they do. There is no magical solution to this, unfortunately.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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February 18, 2024

Thank you so much for a quick response! Coule we assume most of the buyers here are designers if they're Adobe users? I wish Adobe Stock lets the potential buyers know which image contains print safe colors or something. I try not to use out of gamut colors, but sometimes, that's challenging. 

Abambo
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February 19, 2024

Most of the buyers are probably professionals. But there is a considerable part of hobbyists buying assets occasionally. At some stage, you need, however, to make a decision.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer