OT: Help with PS's Gamut Warning
2005-05-22 by Steve Kale
Hi I have posted this question on the Adobe Mac Firums and at Rob Galbraith's site with no luck. I am wondering if someone can help me. Given it is off-topic please reply directly to me rather than on-list. I am a bit puzzled by Photoshop's Gamut Warning. I would have thought that this would not be rendering intent specific. That is, I would have thought that the ICC profile used in the soft proof would describe the gamut of the proof and that gamut warning would simply show which pixels are not inside that gamut. When I use gamut warning I rarely find any pixels highlighted unless Absolute Colormetric is used as the rendering intent. (I had to pull up the Granger Rainbow to see any out of gamut pixels with the other intents.) For example, if I select relative colormetric, does gamut warning not show me the pixels that are clipped to the closest possible hue? I am struggling to see how absolute colormetric's dealing of white point vs relative colormetric would produce more out of gamut pixels. Aren't they either simply in or out? And why is there no gamut warning ability for B&W to highlight which pixels (down in the deep blacks and highlights) can't be reproduced because of the limits of ink black and paper white? Thanks Steve