Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS Manual page 273

To color-manage an image while printing:
Choose File > Print Preview, or click the Print
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Preview button ( ) in the shortcuts bar.
Select Show More Options (located below the
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image preview area), and choose Color
Management from the pop-up menu.
The Source Space section of the dialog box displays
the image's color profile. (See "Using color
management" on page 65.)
In the Print Space section of the dialog box,
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choose an option for Profile:
Choose Same As Source if you want the printer
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to output color based only on the image's color
profile. No additional conversions will be
performed on the colors of the document when
it is printed. This option will not take any printer
profiles into account.
• Choose Printer Color Management or PostScript
Color Management if you want to manage color
conversions using the print driver. PostScript
Color Management is only available when printing
to a PostScript device.
If available, choose a predefined color profile for
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your printer. These profiles are installed with
graphics applications and print drivers. Choosing
a predefined profile will result in an automatic
color conversion when printing.
Under Print Space, for Intent, choose a
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rendering intent to use when converting colors to
the destination profile space:
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
Known as the Image intent in Adobe
Perceptual
PageMaker and Illustrator 9, Perceptual aims to
preserve the visual relationship between colors
in a way that is perceived as natural to the human
eye, although the color values themselves may
change. This intent is most suitable for photo-
graphic images.
Known as the Graphics intent in
Saturation
Adobe PageMaker and Illustrator 8, Saturation
aims to create vivid color at the expense of
accurate color. It scales the source gamut to the
destination gamut, but preserves relative
saturation instead of hue, so when scaling to a
smaller gamut, hues may shift. This rendering
intent is suitable for business graphics, where the
exact relationship between colors is not as
important as having bright saturated colors.
Leaves colors that fall
Absolute Colorimetric
inside the destination gamut unchanged. This
intent aims to maintain color accuracy at the
expense of preserving relationships between
colors. When translating to a smaller gamut,
two colors that are distinct in the source space may
be mapped to the same color in the destination
space. Absolute Colorimetric can be more accurate
if the image's color profile contains correct white
point (extreme highlight) information. This
rendering intent is suitable when you want to
match the color of one substrate on another
substrate, in addition to matching the non-black
ink, and have all the colors give the most accurate
match possible. One example would be when
reproducing the appearance of a printed sheet of
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