rendering intent

A profile might define several mappings, according to rendering intent.

Relative colorimetric is the default rendering intent on most systems.

This form of clipping may be avoided by performing the color space conversion using a different rendering intent.

The Color Management section allows assigning a profile, choosing a default profile, rendering intent, converting to a profile or intermediate transform.

The ICC specification includes four different rendering intents: absolute colorimetric, relative colorimetric, perceptual, and saturation.

Photoshop Elements benefits: Better printing options with Adobe's rendering intent and profile conversion settings Grayscale and 16-bit document support.

Gamut mapping trades off any one of Lightness, Hue or Saturation accuracy to render the color on screen, depending on the priority chosen in the conversion's ICC rendering intent.

This new color engine is based on Canon's Kyuanos technology and is said to use greater than 16-bit per channel floating point arithmetics for better gamut-mapping models that are meant to provide superior color space conversions than ICC rendering intents.

Often, in practice, the white point is assumed to follow a standard and is not explicitly stated (e.g., for "absolute colorimetric" rendering intent ICC L*a*b* values are relative to CIE standard illuminant D50, while they are relative to the unprinted substrate for other rendering intents).