Nikon 25338 User Manual - Page 136

130 Color Management maintain the relationships of colors so that the printed image appears natural to the human eye. While this intent maintains the relationships of colors, the actual color values will be changed. Chapter 21 Saturation The Saturation rendering intent attempts to produce highly saturated colors, but it may not produce accurate colors in a photograph. Edit Menu INTENT Use this preference to set the default rendering intent for the various color management features throughout Capture NX. The different rendering intents control how colors from your image are made to fit into the colors that your printer can produce as indicated by the printer profile. Please note: Different printer and paper combinations, as well as the different software used to create printer profiles, benefit from different rendering intents. Experiment with the different rendering intents within your workflow to find the option that works best. The four options are: Perceptual This rendering intent attempts to Relative Colorimetric This rendering intent maps the white point of the image to the white point as defined by the printer profile and reproduces accurately all of the colors that are within the range of colors reproducible by your printer. All colors that are outside of the range that your printer can produce are shifted to the closest color possible. This option preserves as many natural colors as possible and is often the best choice for printing photographs. Absolute Colorimetric This rendering intent is very similar to the Relative Colorimetric, except that it does not map the white point of the image to the white point of the destination profile. It is recommended that you use Absolute Colorimetric if you want to proof your images for a specific print device other than your printer, since this rendering intent will attempt to reproduce the results of the output device, including the effect of a different paper color.