What are Rendering Intents?

What are Rendering Intents?

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Rendering intents are methods, which are used to convert one color space to another. There are four different rendering intents that can be chosen, each corresponding to a different preference for the overall color appearance of an image.

The four different rendering intents are described below:

The Relative Colorimetric

This intent preserves original, rather than perceptual, colors in an image. It compares the source color space with the destination color space and shifts all out-of-gamut colors to the nearest reproducible colors.

The Perceptual

This intent preserves the visual relationship between colors in an image rather than color values. The Perceptual rendering intent is suitable for those images that have out-of-gamut colors.

The Saturation

This intent preserves the visual relationship between colors in an image rather than exact relationship between colors. The Saturation rendering intent is suitable for those graphics in which bright saturated colors are important rather than exact relationship between colors such as graphs or charts.

The Absolute Colorimetric

This intent preserves color accuracy rather than relationships between colors. Absolute colorimetric rendering reproduces exactly the same colors that come under the destination gamut and clips out-of-gamut colors to the nearest possible hue, saturation, and brightness.

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