Color Management

[greenmorpher]

In the Preferences > Color Management > dialog, in "Rendering Intent" the options offered are "Perceptual", "Relative Colorimetric", "Absolute Colorimetric" and "Saturation".

In this context, what do those terms actually mean?

Also, what does "Freeway 3 Default ..." mean?

Cheers, Geoff

Geoffrey Heard, Business Writer & Publisher

"Type & Layout: Are you communicating or just making pretty shapes" -- Revealed! The secrets of how you can use type and layout to turbocharge your messages in print. See the book at http://www.worsleypress.com

[Gerhard Huber]

In the Preferences > Color Management > dialog, in "Rendering Intent" the options offered are "Perceptual", "Relative Colorimetric", "Absolute Colorimetric" and "Saturation".
In this context, what do those terms actually mean?

You can use rendering intents to show PL32 for what purpose your image was designed. It's not so easy to understand this, so I would suggest to search the web for more information.

Also, what does "Freeway 3 Default ..." mean?

I think it's a profile installed on your computer, isn't it?

Gerhard[/quote]

[lutz]

some great explanations on rendering intent can be found here:

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutori ... ersion.htm

[greenmorpher]

In the Preferences > Color Management > dialog, in "Rendering Intent" the options offered are "Perceptual", "Relative Colorimetric", "Absolute Colorimetric" and "Saturation".
In this context, what do those terms actually mean?

You can use rendering intents to show PL32 for what purpose your image was designed. It's not so easy to understand this, so I would suggest to search the web for more information.

Sigh! Okay, Gerhard, I'll try to find it on the net.

Also, what does "Freeway 3 Default ..." mean?

I think it's a profile installed on your computer, isn't it?

Not that I know of. I do still have Freeway, a web authoring program installed, but I didn’t know it had installed a color profile anywhere. Certainly I've never consciously used it and no other program has accessed it!

Lutz -- thanks for that lead. I'll chase it up.

Cheers, Geoff

Geoffrey Heard, Business Writer & Publisher

"Type & Layout: Are you communicating or just making pretty shapes" -- Revealed! The secrets of how you can use type and layout to turbocharge your messages in print. See the book at http://www.worsleypress.com