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PaulHoule 11 hours ago

I’ve had trouble printing pictures of yellow flowers like Rudbeckia, which my camera records as 100% saturated so they are out of gamut for the camera to begin with and the yellow I do get is out of gamut for print so if I don’t bring the colors into gamut in post the printer does it for me which often looks awful.

I learned to turn on the Gamut warning in photoshop and have a choice of a few ways to bring colors into the CMYK gamut so I can make something that looks the same on the screen and print.

Blue sky in photographs are usually out of the print gamut but again, people don’t complain.

What’s bothered me the most is that when I med red-green anaglyph stereograms an sRGB red gets turned into (186,16,15) on a Display P3 monitor which includes Apple mobile devices. The excess green goes through the wrong lens to the wrong eye. This can be dealt with by attaching a color profile, but you can’t always pick one to match the device so you might attach a too-saturated profile and figure a stereogram will look weird anyway.

My bit about natural greens not being very saturated comes from the fact that grass and trees do OK in anaglyphs because they tend to the yellow side and show up enough in the red channel that it works, although now that I LUT grade my non-sports photos I am thinking of making a cube map that desaturates colors in the right way to make the left-right value balance closer.