Rendering intent
When either converting
or printing your photos
using application managed colors,
you can select the rendering intent.
The rending intents you can select are described below.
- Absolute Colorimetric
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Leaves colors that fall inside the destination gamut unchanged.
Out-of-gamut colors are clipped.
No scaling of colors to the destination white point is performed.
This intent tries to maintain color accuracy
at the expense of preserving relationships between colors
and is suitable for proofing to simulate the output
of a particular device.
This intent is particularly useful for previewing
how paper color affects printed colors.
- Relative Colorimetric
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Compares the extreme highlight of the source color space
to that of the destination color space
and shifts all colors accordingly.
Out-of-gamut colors are shifted to the closest reproducible color
in the destination color space.
This preserves more of the original colors
in a photo than Perceptual.
(See also
Black point compensation.)
- Perceptual
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Tries to preserve the visual relationship between colors
so it is perceived as natural to the human eye
even though the color values themselves may change.
This intent is suitable for photos
with lots of out-of-gamut colors.
- Verzadiging
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Tries to produce vivid colors in a photo
at the expense of color accuracy.
This intent is suitable for business graphics
like graphs or charts where bright saturated colors
are more important than the exact relationship between colors.