Here is step by step method from Deke McClelland’s PS Bible. You would only need to use this if you were going to a commercial cmyk printer and there are a lot of out of gamut colors or if the print you get on your Epson was unaceptable.
1 Make a copy of your image. Choose image>duplicate then choose view>proof setup>CMYK. This is just a reference for what the image would look like if you just sent it to print.
2 Return to your original image and choose Select>color Range, then select Out of Gamut from the pop up, then press enter.
3 Choose view>Gamut Warning and press Ctrl + H (cmd + H on Mac) to show out of gamut colors as gray and stop marching ants.
4 Press ctrl + U (cmd + U on Mac) to display Hue/saturation box.
5 Lower the saturation in selected colors (don’t use master). the colors should change from gray to color.
6 Once you get most of gray out, click on OK, then choose Image>Mode>CMYK. PS will shift all colors into gamut.
You may get some hard edges with this method. If so, feather the selection between steps 2 and 3.
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"Tacit" wrote in message
When Soft Proofing an image prior to printing and viewing the Gamut
Warnings
my question is what action should I take (if any) prior to printing if
there
are Out of Gamut colours?
Well, that depends. How much do you care about the image?
If it doesn’t bother you that the colors on your screen will not match the colors on your printout, then you need not take any action at all–just
hit
Print.
If you want to control precisely what your printout looks like–if you
want
what you see to match what you get, at least to within the limits that
that’s
possible–you need to use the color correction tools to make sure you have
no
out-of-gamut colors.
What are you doing with the image? Are ou printing it on a consumer inkjet printer? Sending it to a printing press?
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