I like how this video is from 3 years ago and I'm glad I came across it. This is one of the most helpful videos I've viewed as I've seen countless tutorials on how to fix or try to match colors for print. Thank you so much sir!
That gamut warning greyed out thingy you show us how to do at ~ 2:50 is EXACTLY what I was trying to figure out. I knew there had to be a simpler way to find out which colors I could use. Thanks!!
Bro you should not have stopped uploading. I just watched half of your last uploaded video and have learnt a lot of new things even when I have been using Photoshop since quite a couple of years.
This is a great tool for printing accurately, I have watched it a few times and taken notes. There are references to additional backup teachings to complete your education if you need it.
This is THE most helpful design video of any kind I have watched in memory. THANK YOU so much for this. I spent over an hour this morning searching for how to convert my RGB Illustrator file into CMYK for print My frustration level was quite high with the poor information even from Adobe themselves. By carefully watching your video once, and then mimicking the steps while watching and replaying certain steps more slowly, I finally got my file looking really very good and close to the RGB original! (Never simple export it from Illustrator to CMYK; it becomes flat mud-city!) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! You're an amazingly good teacher and you think of all the possibilities. I'm aiming to watch your other videos this week! Hope you keep them up indefinitely, I'll need to rewatch each time I do some of these things!
Hi Sid and greetings from Argentina. I discovered this video just today and thought ‘I’ve read about this dozens of times, once more cannot hurt’ WOW!! This is so much better and clearer that its in a class by itself even when the rest of what I had read was from some of the top guys on this medium. Thank you very very much. Needless to say I am now a subscriber and look forward to taking a look at the rest of your stuff. All the best Tom
Thank you for this! I've been shooting and printing for years, yet you just taught this old dog some new tricks. Amazing video. Amazing results when applied to my own workflow.
Thanks for a vry good video. Your video takes attension to 4 color CMYK printers. Will the gammut be better e.g. using a Epson SC P700 that has 10 colors?
You are a legend!!!! You answered EVERY question I had. What a life saver! No I can print my assignment with confidence! Can't thank you enough! :)))))
Just as a side note to maybe avoid any confusion - From what I've read, the color gamut warning in the color picker is tied only to the cymk setting in the main color setup, whereas the color gamut warning in the main view is tied to the proof setup parameters. I need to test this out...Edit : Just finished watching and wanted to say thanks. I never considered the out of gamut warning was pre rendering intent, so you could end up double adjusting. Also, the tip about auto masking out of gamut colors was new to me 👍☺️
Likeable energy, powerful skills, generous heart. Thank you so much! Would you recommend these for an illustrator working on drawings to print on merch as well (fabric print) ?
thank you!! was trying to find how to fix the faded colors after converting to CMYK (for kdp printing), at least I understood some principles better here.
I am very thankful for all the usefull information, but I simply don't have the option "out of gamut". Is it this possible to be missing from the latest update?
This is fab but..So if the ICC profiles and the rendering intents bring it within gamut so that we don't need to use the gamut warning, then when comparing the original image to the new custom settings image with proof colours initiated, in two-up mode, how can we then increase saturation to match the original image? Would it then not be back outside the boundaries of the ICC profile? I think I am clear on it all until I think about this stage.
finally I got the idea, thanks a lot for the tips. Now if you can answer few questions: 1. In my case I want the reddest Red color possible to print on shirt. we can see the reddest Red color is FF0700 within the color picker (all the way to the right top corner). it states out of gamut.... do you think it's true, and it cannot be printed 100% with CMYK printer? 2. What the reddest red do you think can be printed? can you share color Code for reddest red you think possible to print? 3. or the reddest Red could be ee1515 - maximum? thanks boss
There is not a fixed answer because it depends on the particular printer gamut on what the most saturated red can be. The best and fool-proof way to find out is to take test prints and see visually and compare them to the screen.
You are a great teacher! I respect you very much! I like Brandon Woelfel work very much. The colors of his work are very beautiful! Teacher, sincerely hope you can teach us his Post-processing and toning process.
Your head must think like mine. I have watched 3 days of you tube video and this one has answered my questions. I am now signed up and going to watch all the others. Thank you so much for your time I hope you become a wealthy man. This is gooooood stuff. Why can people just explain stuff as if you dont know what you are doing. Instead of assuming that you know what you are doing and missing most of the info out. clear and clean. Question are the ICC profiles that the printers provide actually CMYK profiles?
This video is amazing. It answered so many of my questions. I have one unanswered I hope you can help with. Using Hue/Saturation adjustment to visual adjust out of gamut colours doesn't offer the out of gamut colour quick fix button in the colour picker. Can you think of a way to automatically push colours to the nearest in gamut colour like the colour picker does?
Great video! Shouldn't you have done another gamut warning check after you blended the correction layer on the landscape image, and after applying the correction layers on the portrait?
You talk fine. Talk as slow as you're able if people are complaining but not so slow that people will start saying you're talking too slow... No one will ever be satisfied! lol I personally could understand you just fine and wouldn't want you to talk slower. You're just talking how you talk ❤ and are explaining things well. great video!
Though it's true that printing always involves CMYK inks, if you have an RGB printer especially one with more inks then just the simple CMYK set, you are better of using the (RGB) profile created by the paper manufacturer for your printer, better yet, make your own. With modern paper and multi ink printers you'll get much more gamut then your CMYK profile which where made (long ago) for the printing industry and they are still in use in relatively small shops. Today the printing industry is also using more inks and the result is way more gamut then with the simple 4 ink systems. But I love the way you use to make an as beautiful print as possible, thanks.
Hi there, I am really enjoying your explanation of the difference between RGB and CMYK and how Printers can not print Light! Thank you for this. I am planning on following your recommendation to watch "photo shop color change?" next, but I can't find it. TH-cam must have burried it in the search results. Could you please share the link for this video with me? Cheers to Teacher!
but how did they print saturated colors and photographs without color loss in magazine cover? please help me understand i also have another doubt i designed a poster in cmyk (with green as dominant color) it had no gamut warning every colors are inside CMYK color space. while soft proofing there is no change ( toggling ctrl+y) but when i enabled "simulate paper color" check mark in proof setup . it shows me a darker image (dark green) which is not i intented. i ignored and printed it the result was the greens turned out into dark green as it showed me when i clicked simulate paper color so here my doubt is can i fix this darkening of colors by your above mentioned ways?
The color saturation also depends on which CMYK printer you print on and of course the paper choice, iso you can experiment with high end printers and papers. Also certain colors you see on magazine covers mainly are sometimes spot printed, which is an extra ink used with a masked out plate for that particular area. But this option is quite expensive especially for a single print.
This video is going to save my ass multiple times before my upcoming expo that i have no business doing anyway lol. Thanks man this stuff is priceless for a noob like me! I guess i've been lucky mostly, until now, just spent like 15 bucks on prints that had artefacts, in hindsight these colors going out of gamut seems like the most obvious explanation. The darker photos printed without artefacts, only started showing up when i for some reason wanted lighter blues agian.
i am currently want to fix this error when PS auto reject my color picker which is cyan and its auto change to slide darker cyan. hope you can help me solve this error
googling an issue led me to this video and your channel for the first time, and now i have discovered i still need to learn all these other things to put out quality work lol.....maybe you have an idea with what i just experienced, i created a color fill layer to do some highlights, and as soon as the color selection window popped up, my pen display (2021 huion kamvas 16) immediately powered off/on repeatedly until i disconnected it to think about what happened, figured out it was out of gamut color ....im glad i now know gamut is a thing i need to pay attention to for prints down the line, but right now i need to find out why it caused my new pen display to freak out.....any experience or knowledge on this?
Hi. Adobe recommends the Export As for most web graphics because it is built on newer code that can handle larger documents. But if you want more control over compression or create animated GIFs from Photoshop video timeline, then you can use Save for Web (Legacy).
How do you fix the play command error? I have researched it til I was about to pass out. I cannot figure it out. I even started from scratch for installation. :(
Hi Sid, thank you very much indeed for this tutorial, and for your other superb uploads. The thoroughness of your explanations is second to none! I have found your method of converting RGB to CMK amazingly effective. The one difficulty, of course, is with pictures that contain a lot of rich blue colours. Do you have any thoughts on how best to retain the richness of an RGB image with a range of deep blues when it is converted to CMYK? All best wishes, Paul
We all struggle with the Blues hahahahaha. I actually stumpled upon this video exactly because of that, I'm making a large print that is purple and blue with some orange tones, and i've spent hours and hours soft proofing it and adjusting it. Sid's tips were actually super helpful.
@@motttta haha that comment makes me laugh. Just today i've managed to get a good print (just on glossy paper at a local camera shop) that has the same colors. Its got stars, a diagonal double gradient from dark blue to purple, and purple to light gold.. with wooden poles in a radial fashion which turned out to be... you guessed it, Orange (because of light pollution)! Hope this gives you hope. Its the only image that printed great right away. I have another shot of basically a mist lamp with a light blue, moonlit starfield behind it... I'm right now looking at 4 horrendous first prints with FINALLY, today, a pretty good print 😆 Good luck :)
Weird, can't get the mask to show the gamut. I have setup the proofing and can see the out of gamut warnings. Just when i use the mask, it isn't masking those.
Hello, great video, but I have a problem. The image consists mainly of saturated navy blue with no gradation, I manually convert the colors to the closest value where the gamut warning disappears and it looks pretty good. But when I turn on the proof setup or convert to CMYK my color is different it gets faded. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? If I don't have any gamut warning anymore, shouldn't I have exactly the same colors after converting to CMYK? I'm converting from srgb to cmyk on a wide gamut monitor. Thank you for your help.
you are simply terrific. all is forgiven you can return to India now! blessed to have encountered your channel, fluent and easy to follow along. I live in India and am grateful. thank you.
This is not really accurate - You CAN get special inks such as fluorescent colours that 4 colour (mixed) can't replicate so an extra Ink cartridge is added.
Cannot understand how you do not have more subscribers. This video was amazing.
I like how this video is from 3 years ago and I'm glad I came across it. This is one of the most helpful videos I've viewed as I've seen countless tutorials on how to fix or try to match colors for print. Thank you so much sir!
THANK YOU!, no one else explains HOW colors can be modified or set as close as possible to RGB
This is the best explanation of color gamuts I've seen. Well done.
You are the best! Fix' Gamut Warning! Do THIS instead in Photoshop is the best video about this subject. Thank you so much.
Best explanation of cmyk print conversion ever and I've been doing them for twenty years.
That gamut warning greyed out thingy you show us how to do at ~ 2:50 is EXACTLY what I was trying to figure out. I knew there had to be a simpler way to find out which colors I could use. Thanks!!
I’ve watched this 4 times and think I finally got it. Wis I could give it thumbs up for each Tim eI watched. Fantastic!
Bro you should not have stopped uploading. I just watched half of your last uploaded video and have learnt a lot of new things even when I have been using Photoshop since quite a couple of years.
I mean what if he passed away? 🤷🏻♂️
I’m a super photoshop geek that has taught in workshops and your stuff is out of this world. Wow
This is a great tool for printing accurately, I have watched it a few times and taken notes. There are references to additional backup teachings to complete your education if you need it.
Really top notch workflow. thanks !
🙌🙌🙌
This is THE most helpful design video of any kind I have watched in memory. THANK YOU so much for this. I spent over an hour this morning searching for how to convert my RGB Illustrator file into CMYK for print My frustration level was quite high with the poor information even from Adobe themselves. By carefully watching your video once, and then mimicking the steps while watching and replaying certain steps more slowly, I finally got my file looking really very good and close to the RGB original! (Never simple export it from Illustrator to CMYK; it becomes flat mud-city!) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! You're an amazingly good teacher and you think of all the possibilities. I'm aiming to watch your other videos this week! Hope you keep them up indefinitely, I'll need to rewatch each time I do some of these things!
Hi Sid and greetings from Argentina.
I discovered this video just today and thought ‘I’ve read about this dozens of times, once more cannot hurt’
WOW!!
This is so much better and clearer that its in a class by itself even when the rest of what I had read was from some of the top guys on this medium.
Thank you very very much. Needless to say I am now a subscriber and look forward to taking a look at the rest of your stuff.
All the best
Tom
Thank you for this! I've been shooting and printing for years, yet you just taught this old dog some new tricks. Amazing video. Amazing results when applied to my own workflow.
Wow, so deep! The field of color management is a fusion of art and science!
Waiting for this video for a long time. you got yourself a new subscriber mate.
Thanks for a vry good video. Your video takes attension to 4 color CMYK printers. Will the gammut be better e.g. using a Epson SC P700 that has 10 colors?
Great teacher! Knowing this would've saved me lots of wasted prints when I was a student.
just wow! amazing tutorial! lots of thanks for your generosity to share these super useful informations.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are an absolute expert. Thank you for sharing so much in-depth knowledge.
great thanks man this video is a masterpiece💯💯💯
Absolutely AMAZING video! Thank you! 😀
Thank you! Saved this for later, because this tutorial is very clear!!! Awesome job
You are a legend!!!! You answered EVERY question I had. What a life saver! No I can print my assignment with confidence! Can't thank you enough! :)))))
You have helped me so much!!!! Thank you.
This is one of the best videos I have ever watched. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and gift. I really learned a lot from this video.
This is an excellent explanation particularly when paired with StyleMyPic companion videos
I'm gonna have to watch this again. Tons of info , Thank you.
Great! Thank You !!!
Just as a side note to maybe avoid any confusion - From what I've read, the color gamut warning in the color picker is tied only to the cymk setting in the main color setup, whereas the color gamut warning in the main view is tied to the proof setup parameters. I need to test this out...Edit : Just finished watching and wanted to say thanks. I never considered the out of gamut warning was pre rendering intent, so you could end up double adjusting. Also, the tip about auto masking out of gamut colors was new to me 👍☺️
Superb info! Many thanks and keep them coming!
Why do we convert to CMYK? There's a video on TH-cam released about 3 months ago saying we should stay in RGB for print 😭 I'm so confused?
awesome vid! very concise
I cannot thank you enough for this, man, thank you!
Likeable energy, powerful skills, generous heart. Thank you so much! Would you recommend these for an illustrator working on drawings to print on merch as well (fabric print) ?
THANK YOU! You are an absolute expert. Thank you for sharing so much in-depth knowledge
Amazing! Besides i could understand your diction and speed, suscribed!!
Do you have Video Vista Print Proofing for Business Cards and how do prepare those settings so that do not lose the quality of the coloring?
Excellent knowledge brother ❤️ you deserve huge applause and subscribers
Good job and thank you
WOWWWW...incredibly great explanation.
thank you!! was trying to find how to fix the faded colors after converting to CMYK (for kdp printing), at least I understood some principles better here.
thank you so much
I am very thankful for all the usefull information, but I simply don't have the option "out of gamut". Is it this possible to be missing from the latest update?
Awesome video. Do you have any info on Ink density? Thanks again.
This is fab but..So if the ICC profiles and the rendering intents bring it within gamut so that we don't need to use the gamut warning, then when comparing the original image to the new custom settings image with proof colours initiated, in two-up mode, how can we then increase saturation to match the original image? Would it then not be back outside the boundaries of the ICC profile? I think I am clear on it all until I think about this stage.
finally I got the idea, thanks a lot for the tips. Now if you can answer few questions:
1. In my case I want the reddest Red color possible to print on shirt. we can see the reddest Red color is FF0700 within the color picker (all the way to the right top corner). it states out of gamut.... do you think it's true, and it cannot be printed 100% with CMYK printer?
2. What the reddest red do you think can be printed? can you share color Code for reddest red you think possible to print?
3. or the reddest Red could be ee1515 - maximum?
thanks boss
There is not a fixed answer because it depends on the particular printer gamut on what the most saturated red can be. The best and fool-proof way to find out is to take test prints and see visually and compare them to the screen.
Does this process work in the same way if you have a 12 colour printer, such as the Canon Pro 1000?
Best explanation I’ve seen! Nice job!
You are a great teacher! I respect you very much! I like Brandon Woelfel work very much. The colors of his work are very beautiful! Teacher, sincerely hope you can teach us his Post-processing and toning process.
This was extremely helpful! Thank you!!
Your head must think like mine. I have watched 3 days of you tube video and this one has answered my questions. I am now signed up and going to watch all the others. Thank you so much for your time I hope you become a wealthy man. This is gooooood stuff. Why can people just explain stuff as if you dont know what you are doing. Instead of assuming that you know what you are doing and missing most of the info out. clear and clean. Question are the ICC profiles that the printers provide actually CMYK profiles?
This video is amazing. It answered so many of my questions. I have one unanswered I hope you can help with. Using Hue/Saturation adjustment to visual adjust out of gamut colours doesn't offer the out of gamut colour quick fix button in the colour picker. Can you think of a way to automatically push colours to the nearest in gamut colour like the colour picker does?
Thats what proof colors is for. To show you how the colors will be automatically pushed into gamut based on the render intent settings you choose.
Great video! Shouldn't you have done another gamut warning check after you blended the correction layer on the landscape image, and after applying the correction layers on the portrait?
Awesome knowledge. Fantastic video!! Thank you
You talk fine. Talk as slow as you're able if people are complaining but not so slow that people will start saying you're talking too slow... No one will ever be satisfied! lol I personally could understand you just fine and wouldn't want you to talk slower. You're just talking how you talk ❤ and are explaining things well. great video!
You are a genius.
Though it's true that printing always involves CMYK inks, if you have an RGB printer especially one with more inks then just the simple CMYK set, you are better of using the (RGB) profile created by the paper manufacturer for your printer, better yet, make your own. With modern paper and multi ink printers you'll get much more gamut then your CMYK profile which where made (long ago) for the printing industry and they are still in use in relatively small shops. Today the printing industry is also using more inks and the result is way more gamut then with the simple 4 ink systems. But I love the way you use to make an as beautiful print as possible, thanks.
Informative vid man! Can you make a tutorial about dodging and burning..
Stay tuned for a D&B mini series coming soon.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks!
very helpful. super informative. thank you for this!
Glad it was helpful!
great video thanks
Please keep making videos
Thank so much for this precious information!
Guess I`ll stick around :)
is there a way to do this while using powerpoint?
This was Crazy!
sir please make a video on channel mixer... your explanation is the best...
That blue...
Just leaving the comment to boost your ratings and stuff :DDDDD Loved the video.
Hi there, I am really enjoying your explanation of the difference between RGB and CMYK and how Printers can not print Light!
Thank you for this. I am planning on following your recommendation to watch "photo shop color change?" next, but I can't find it. TH-cam must have burried it in the search results. Could you please share the link for this video with me?
Cheers to Teacher!
Hello! Can i use it on ipad pro 2020?
Sorry, the ProWorkflow panel only works with the desktop version of Photoshop.
but how did they print saturated colors and photographs without color loss in magazine cover? please help me understand
i also have another doubt
i designed a poster in cmyk (with green as dominant color) it had no gamut warning every colors are inside CMYK color space.
while soft proofing there is no change ( toggling ctrl+y)
but when i enabled "simulate paper color" check mark in proof setup . it shows me a darker image (dark green) which is not i intented.
i ignored and printed it
the result was the greens turned out into dark green as it showed me when i clicked simulate paper color
so here my doubt is can i fix this darkening of colors by your above mentioned ways?
The color saturation also depends on which CMYK printer you print on and of course the paper choice, iso you can experiment with high end printers and papers. Also certain colors you see on magazine covers mainly are sometimes spot printed, which is an extra ink used with a masked out plate for that particular area. But this option is quite expensive especially for a single print.
@@SidVPhoto thanks for the explanation ❤️
This video is going to save my ass multiple times before my upcoming expo that i have no business doing anyway lol. Thanks man this stuff is priceless for a noob like me! I guess i've been lucky mostly, until now, just spent like 15 bucks on prints that had artefacts, in hindsight these colors going out of gamut seems like the most obvious explanation. The darker photos printed without artefacts, only started showing up when i for some reason wanted lighter blues agian.
amazing
This video did not fix my gamut issue, but I learned a lot of much needed info! My gamut issues pop up still, so I'm not sure what to do from here...
I also do not see an "Out of Gamut" option on my dropdown menu... weird.
i am currently want to fix this error when PS auto reject my color picker which is cyan and its auto change to slide darker cyan. hope you can help me solve this error
Hi can you please do more videos on color grading
Yes, definitely!
On the end better technique is not convert to profile CMYK, but previous convert to Lab colors and then convert to CMYK...
Why not just edit made n cmyk for prints?
Your amazing man thanks again and again
googling an issue led me to this video and your channel for the first time, and now i have discovered i still need to learn all these other things to put out quality work lol.....maybe you have an idea with what i just experienced, i created a color fill layer to do some highlights, and as soon as the color selection window popped up, my pen display (2021 huion kamvas 16) immediately powered off/on repeatedly until i disconnected it to think about what happened, figured out it was out of gamut color ....im glad i now know gamut is a thing i need to pay attention to for prints down the line, but right now i need to find out why it caused my new pen display to freak out.....any experience or knowledge on this?
Sorry, you will have to contact the manufacturer. Sounds like a bug or defect.
This is amazingly helpful, your delivery (talking) is a little fast, slow down to demo mode vs doing it mode.
Hi! Can I use Save for Web (legacy)?
Hi. Adobe recommends the Export As for most web graphics because it is built on newer code that can handle larger documents. But if you want more control over compression or create animated GIFs from Photoshop video timeline, then you can use Save for Web (Legacy).
@@SidVPhoto Got it! Thank you!
No-one Can do better than that , Thank you
How do you fix the play command error? I have researched it til I was about to pass out. I cannot figure it out. I even started from scratch for installation. :(
Hi Sid, thank you very much indeed for this tutorial, and for your other superb uploads. The thoroughness of your explanations is second to none! I have found your method of converting RGB to CMK amazingly effective. The one difficulty, of course, is with pictures that contain a lot of rich blue colours. Do you have any thoughts on how best to retain the richness of an RGB image with a range of deep blues when it is converted to CMYK? All best wishes, Paul
We all struggle with the Blues hahahahaha. I actually stumpled upon this video exactly because of that, I'm making a large print that is purple and blue with some orange tones, and i've spent hours and hours soft proofing it and adjusting it. Sid's tips were actually super helpful.
@@motttta haha that comment makes me laugh. Just today i've managed to get a good print (just on glossy paper at a local camera shop) that has the same colors. Its got stars, a diagonal double gradient from dark blue to purple, and purple to light gold.. with wooden poles in a radial fashion which turned out to be... you guessed it, Orange (because of light pollution)!
Hope this gives you hope. Its the only image that printed great right away.
I have another shot of basically a mist lamp with a light blue, moonlit starfield behind it... I'm right now looking at 4 horrendous first prints with FINALLY, today, a pretty good print 😆
Good luck :)
Weird, can't get the mask to show the gamut. I have setup the proofing and can see the out of gamut warnings. Just when i use the mask, it isn't masking those.
Hello, great video, but I have a problem. The image consists mainly of saturated navy blue with no gradation, I manually convert the colors to the closest value where the gamut warning disappears and it looks pretty good. But when I turn on the proof setup or convert to CMYK my color is different it gets faded. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? If I don't have any gamut warning anymore, shouldn't I have exactly the same colors after converting to CMYK? I'm converting from srgb to cmyk on a wide gamut monitor. Thank you for your help.
You are THE GREATEST
OMG !
For me it keeps turning green even though I choose a printable gamut color! please help
Wow! Wow! Wow!
you are simply terrific. all is forgiven you can return to India now! blessed to have encountered your channel, fluent and easy to follow along. I live in India and am grateful. thank you.
mind blowing :)
My image doesn't look any different
good info, but why is his shadows on his video all messed up? irony haha. keep up the good content though
respect
This is not really accurate - You CAN get special inks such as fluorescent colours that 4 colour (mixed) can't replicate so an extra Ink cartridge is added.