Gamut Warnings,Do We Still Obey Them?

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Do I still need to fear gamut warnings in Photoshop and adjust the photo to eliminate them before I hit the print button?

I’m asking because I haven’t printed in 10 years and I know my knowledge base is probably out of date.
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It depends who you ask.

The gamut warning in Photoshop is a bit heavy-handed. It does help to view the image in soft proofing mode, but don’t be a slave to that. It’s just a “suggestion” of the print.

It’s the actual print that matters.

Sorry that was not real definitive, but it is realistic.
 
good info. I was raised in the four-color offset printing world, and I’m still terrified about staying within the parameters.

It depends who you ask.

The gamut warning in Photoshop is a bit heavy-handed. It does help to view the image in soft proofing mode, but don’t be a slave to that. It’s just a “suggestion” of the print.

It’s the actual print that matters.

Sorry that was not real definitive, but it is realistic.

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Rich
"That's like, just your opinion, man." ;-)
 
good info. I was raised in the four-color offset printing world
Ditto. I can still get high by just remembering the smells of the pressroom. I taught our pressmen how to use densitometers to determine the end of makeready. Threatened to have them surgically attached to their arms if they didn’t comply! 🙄
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It depends who you ask.

The gamut warning in Photoshop is a bit heavy-handed. It does help to view the image in soft proofing mode, but don’t be a slave to that. It’s just a “suggestion” of the print.

It’s the actual print that matters.

Sorry that was not real definitive, but it is realistic.
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good info. I was raised in the four-color offset printing world, and I’m still terrified about staying within the parameters.
It depends who you ask.

The gamut warning in Photoshop is a bit heavy-handed. It does help to view the image in soft proofing mode, but don’t be a slave to that. It’s just a “suggestion” of the print.

It’s the actual print that matters.

Sorry that was not real definitive, but it is realistic.
I guess it also depends on the type of work that you are doing: if it is something where color accuracy is critical, I would probably heed those warnings, while if what you are after is a pleasing print that is reasonably close to the colors that you see on your screen, I would see what you get by selecting one of the two rendering intents depending on the number of colors that show as out of gamut.
 
Do I still need to fear gamut warnings in Photoshop and adjust the photo to eliminate them before I hit the print button?

I’m asking because I haven’t printed in 10 years and I know my knowledge base is probably out of date.
I think you ought to consider how important it will be if either the area being warned about has its saturated color(s) crushed flat by relative colorimetric, or how much the overall gamut will be squeezed by perceptual. Consider what the gamut warning means to the particular image, and use that to decide how much if any to edit further. But don't necessarily "obey" it.

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