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Reviewing when colors go out of gamut

Reviewing when colors go out of gamut - Photoshop Tutorial

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Reviewing when colors go out of gamut

In the last movie you saw how I could graph the contents of a color space in 3D using this program called ColorThink to get a visualization of what colors that space can hold. I would like to show you now how a color space might compare to what a particular piece of paper can hold and how it might compare to what colors are contained in a specific image. Here is the gamut of the Adobe RGB color space--you saw this before--and here is the gamut of some Epson archival Matte paper. I am just going to pull that up right here, and they're going to be superimposed. Now again, if I look at these two things down below, this inner circle is the color gamut of the Epson paper, this is the color gamut of the entire Adobe RGB color space. Let me turn down the opacity of Adobe RGB, and you can see that for the most part, the paper is contained completely within Adobe RGB. There's actually a little bit of yellow that the paper can handle that is outside the gamut of Adobe RGB. For the most part…

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