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smilinweapon — Gamut Mask Tool For Photoshop
Published: 2013-04-12 20:41:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 29719; Favourites: 350; Downloads: 4965
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(Warning: Big File!)I want to share with you this PSD I made after reading Color and Light by James Gurney. If you have read the book you already know what this is all about and why it is so important. If you haven't and you are struggling with picking good colors for your paintings, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes checking out the links I put at the bottom of this page. Special thanks to dbalfour.deviantart.com/ for helping me make this.
If for any reason you are confused on how to use this PSD. Send me a note or message me on Facebook.Check out James Gurney explains warm and cool gamut mapping Video From imaginefx: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…
To learn more about gamut masking and James Gurney himself check out his amazing blog:
Gurney Journey: gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/
Gamut Masking Method: gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2…
The concept of Gamut masking (and much more) is best explained in his book Color and Light: www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Gui…
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Thank you so much for sharing this! So much struggle about picking colors...
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Thank you very much. I have just bought the James Gurney 'Color of Light' (superb reading) and like you said Gamut Masking is so important for picking good colors.
I was struggling with how to apply the Gamut Mask. This really helped.
I applied your download to PS used the Edit/Free Transform tools to scale and rotate and Bingo. Thanks again.
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Thanks for the awesome tool! I've been following Gurney and he has some of the best advice out there!
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Thank you so much for your amazing work guys!
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Thanks a ton for the gamut mask, it'd have taken me ages to make one on my own! Its been roughly about a month since I got the book, and after I went through most of the chapters in it, the first thing in my mind was, "I absolutely need to figure out a way to make it in PS"!
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Thank you very much for this! I've read Color and Light and was going to attempt to make my own, but you just saved me a lot of time. Thanks!
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I've been reading James' blog these last days and I was hoping I would find something like this. Thanks!
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I found this thanks to 's youtube channel. Thanks a lot for making this, its incredibly beneficial.
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And to think I just made a color wheel a week or two ago. This one is much better, and it has gamut masking!
So wonderful, thank you very much.
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i watched the video but its kind profound... do you think u could expain it simply? what's the use for the mask ?
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To put it simply, if you've looked at a good painting, it doesn't use every single color of the color wheel. And in color theory, you can use a very unsaturated color but make it look saturated nonetheless. Gamut mapping allows you to limit your colors so you can master them in this sense.
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and when i download it it works in photoshop ? thanks a lot .. i'm trying to learn about color theory but its hard
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This is a psd file so you have to open it in photoshop. It gives you a color wheel with masks that you can turn on and off. The point is to use colors within the geometrical shape(s) with the color picker. Color is probably one of the hardest subject in the fundamentals of art, so don't worry if you don't get it right very soon. Just remember to experiment and look at life or master paintings. And don't forget that it should be something fun and not a tedious task.
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ok awesome thanks so much for sharing : )
u rock
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You are welcome! Happy to share this, I am a huge fan of Mr Gurney's teachings
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Happy to share, all credit goes to the amazing person who invented this ahah!
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Yay you are very welcome
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A very useful tool, i've made one by myself and it improved a lot my knowledge of colors, since saturation (or better, chroma) it's sometimes hard to consider! But i feel better with the YRMBCG wheel (with cyan and magenta) , give it a try, it adds more bright hues, i think!
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This is a seriously great tool for practicing color studies- thanks!
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I am reading that book now and just barley started reading this. as a mostly self taught artist this is very useful! color picking has always been difficult to me but im starting to get the hang on it. also if you want to mix photoshop colors like you would oil paints check out this plugin. [link]
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