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Hi Guys

I have an image with a person who's wearing a rather dull-grey coat and I want to change the colour of it to magenta. The coat is rather rough looking, like as if made of jute. I have tried Hue/Sat with the colorize option. It looks fine on the computer screen, but it is for print and when I turn on the Gamut Warning option, it shows me zillions of tiny grey dots on the coat that will print wrongly. How to correct this situation?

Should I recolour it using some other option or any other suggestion welcome.

Thanks
V13
 
voyager13 said:
Hi Guys

I have an image with a person who's wearing a rather dull-grey coat and I want to change the colour of it to magenta. The coat is rather rough looking, like as if made of jute. I have tried Hue/Sat with the colorize option. It looks fine on the computer screen, but it is for print and when I turn on the Gamut Warning option, it shows me zillions of tiny grey dots on the coat that will print wrongly. How to correct this situation?

Should I recolour it using some other option or any other suggestion welcome.

Thanks
V13
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could you provide a visual example?
 
First of all, just because the Gamut warning is revealing issues, every printer is different. Do you have printer software that has allowed you to load a printer profile into Photoshop? The best thing to do if you don't mind wasting a few sheets of paper is simply this:

1. Crop the entire photo just so the problem area is showing.
2. Make small adjustments to the color as you did before.
3. Copy and paste the blocks into a new Photoshop document and line them up side by side. Make about 3-5 of these and then print.
4. Make a few more color tweeks and then print again.
5. Do this until your print out looks right.

This is just a method I have been using for years, so I don't have to print the entire picture. When one color or area on a picture looks bad in print, I will only make color adjustments to that area and print out the cropped portion until it is correct. Hope that makes sense. Cheers.
 
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