Xerox P8EX Spire CXP8000 Color Server - User Guide - Page 344

330 Chapter 7 - Color Workflow There are several methods that can be used when translating colors from one color space to another. These methods are called Rendering Intents because they are optimized for various uses. When working with ICC profiles, it is important that you select the Rendering Intent that best preserves the important aspects of the image. Each rendering method specifies a CRD for color conversions. You can modify the rendering method to control the appearance of images, such as prints from office applications or RGB photographs from Photoshop. • Relative Colorimetric: a rendering intent method in which colors that fall within the output color space remain the same. Only colors that fall outside are changed to the closest possible color within the output color space. When using this method, some closely related colors in the input color space can be mapped to a single color in the output color space. This reduces the number of colors in the image. • Absolute Colorimetric: a rendering intent method similar to Relative Colorimetric except that it does not make adjustments according to the white point. In this method, colors that do not fit within the output color space are rendered at the extremes of the output color space. Colors that fall inside the output color space are matched very accurately. This method is valuable for representing "signature colors". Colors that are highly identified with a commercial product such as the cyan in the Creo logo. • Saturated (presentation) - a rendering intent method which scales all colors to the strongest saturation possible. The relative saturation is maintained from one color space to another.