Digital BW, The Print

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> From: Louis Dina <lbdina@...>

> Steve,
> 
> In color work, I probably use RelCol as much or more than perceptual,
> but it varies by image.  I will soft proof each rendering intent to
> see which looks the best initially, then decide.
> 
> RelCol is often best when there are few out of gamut colors.  In
> these cases, the in gamut colors are left pretty much alone and the
> out of gamut colors are remapped to the closest printable color in
> the output gamut.  RelCol changes the relationships between colors,
> but the accuracy of the in gamut colors is preserved.  If there are a
> lot of out of gamut colors, RelCol can often look lousy, since the
> relationships are all wrong, and the eye is pretty sensitive to
> relationships, especially when it comes to "memory colors", such as
> skin tones, neutrals, sky blue, green grass, etc.
> 
> Perceptual is often a good choice when there are a lot of out of
> gamut colors.  Perceptual will attempt to preserve the relationships
> between colors, at the sacrifice of absolute color accuracy, so all
> colors are remapped to some extent.  Sometimes, there are big shifts
> in overall brightness level and saturation as a result.
> 
> In either case, I will usually soft proof both, choose the one that
> works best with my current image, then make final brightness and
> saturation corrections before printing.  This describes my color work
> flow.
> 
> For B&W, I almost always use Perceptual.  I don't have to worry about
> color and saturation relationships in monochrome printing, and I do
> want to maintain the relative relationships between shades of gray.
> 
> Lou