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Does Anybody Know What This means?


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I'm using Photoshop CS5. When I activate the Info panel and hover over a spot on this green swatch, the section of the Info panel that displays CMYK values is showing those values with an exclamation point after them. Normally, CMYK values are indicated as percentages and display a percentage symbol (%). Does anybody know what an exclamation point is supposed to mean here? I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything.

Just for fun, I tried desaturating the image a little, which did turn the exclamation points back to percentage symbols. I'm wondering if the exclamation points are somehow trying to say that the image is over-saturated?

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Rich


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I could be wrong, but I think it means, the color you are currently sampling or selecting is "out of gamut" for your current working profile.
 
Ah... that makes sense. The swatch is from a photo I downloaded from the internet that had an extreme color cast. I was practicing trying to correct it and sometimes the CMYK values are helpful for this.
 
@IamSam is correct and the statement says:
  • When displaying CMYK values, the Info panel displays an exclamation point next to the CMYK values if the color beneath the pointer or color sampler is out of the printable CMYK color gamut.

Here is the link to the Adobe page:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/image-information.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Out of gamut is relative to the working CMYK, rendering intent, and black point compensation. So any of those could make it go in or out of gamut.

John Wheeler
 
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