MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX 11, Use Manual

Page: 370 / 412

Chapter 13 370
To choose a Composite Printer profile for simulated four-color separations:
1
Display colors preferences by doing one of the following:
•
In Windows, press U, then click the Colors tab.
•
On the Macintosh, press U, then click the Colors category.
2
Select Kodak Digital Science or Apply ColorSync from the color management type
pop-up menu.
3
Click Setup.
4
In the Color Management Setup dialog box, verify that Composite Simulates Separations
is selected.
5
Select an option from the Composite Printer pop-up menu:
•
Select Default (CMYK) to achieve reasonable results with most printers.
•
Select one of the ICC-compatible printer profiles for the most accurate color management.
6
Click OK to close the Color Management Setup dialog box.
7
Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
About rendering intent
Translating colors to a different color space may require adjusting the colors to accommodate the
gamut of the destination color space. You can choose from different translation rules—called
rendering intents—to determine how the source colors are adjusted and optimized for the
intended use of the graphic.
Rendering intent results depend on the graphical content of documents and on the profiles used
to specify color spaces.
You can choose from the following options:
Perceptual
is the best choice for photographic images; this option preserves the visual relationship
between colors as what’s natural to the human eye, even if color values change.
Saturation
is the best choice for colorful artwork such as graphs, charts, and presentation
graphics. This option creates vivid color at the expense of accuracy.
Absolute Colorimetric
is the best choice for matching logo colors. This option preserves colors
that fall inside the destination gamut and maintains color accuracy at the expense of relationships
between colors. For example, two colors that are distinct in the source space may be mapped to
the same color in the destination space.
Relative Colorimetric
is the best choice for illustrations. This option is identical to Absolute
Colorimetric except that it compares the white point (extreme highlight) of the source color space
to that of the destination color space and shifts all colors accordingly.
Managing RGB image color for selected images
To improve the display and output of a selected RGB image, you can assign a device profile to the
image based on how the image was created. The profile determines the colors that the image
displays and prints within that profile’s color gamut. Setting profiles for individual images does
not change the default RGB image profile.