I see a setting for “default rendering intent” on the Advanced Tab in Color Management. What is rendering intent and should I ever change its default setting?
A rendering intent determines how colors are represented when changing from one device (and consequently, color space) to another. You can think of rendering intent as a style of rendering colors; it is the approach that Windows uses to choose the right colors when displaying or printing. Most graphics editing programs let you specify a rendering intent for an image. If your program does not, you can specify the default rendering intent that’s used. There are four common rendering intents that cover the most common uses. Depending upon the rendering intent, the appearance of a picture will be different, since Windows will use a different range of available colors to render it.
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