Corel Painter Help | Working with color profile policies

Working with color profile policies

Corel Painter lets you create color profile policies for opening and placing both RGB and CMYK images. The options that you choose for the Color Profile Policy determine how colors are managed in images that you open and work with in the application.

When creating a color profile policy for opening and placing images, you can specify the following:

• RGB color profile to apply to images

• CMYK color profile for converting images to RGB

• color engine

• rendering intent (depends on image content)

For more information, see What is a rendering intent?.

The color profile policy lets you display warning messages when a document has a mismatched or missing color profile. In the case of a mismatched color profile, you can choose a new color profile. If the document does not have a color profile associated with it, you can apply a new color profile or choose not to use color management with the document.

To create a color profile policy

1 Choose Canvas

Color Management Settings.

2 Choose one of the following options from the RGB Images list box:

• Use embedded profile — applies the embedded RGB color profile to RGB images that you open or import

• Use default RGB profile — converts the image by using the default RGB color profile that you specify in the color management settings

3 Choose one of the following options from the Convert CMYK Images list box:

• Use default CMYK profile — converts to RGB by using the default CMYK color profile that you specify in the color management settings

• Use embedded profile — converts to RGB by using the embedded CMYK color profile

4 Choose a color engine from the Color Engine list box.

5 From the Rendering Intent list box, choose one of the following options:

• Perceptual — is recommended for a variety of images, especially bitmaps and photographs

• Saturation — is best for vector graphics (lines, text, and solid-colored objects, such as charts)

• Relative Colorimetric — is ideal for producing proofs on inkjet printers

• Absolute Colorimetric — preserves the white point and can be used to proof images

If you want to display a warning message when you open a document that has a mismatched color profile, enable the Profile Mismatch check box.

For more complete descriptions of rendering intents, see What is a rendering intent?.

You can also access the Color Management Settings dialog box from the Navigator panel by clicking the Open Navigator Settings button , clicking Color Management, and choosing Color Management Settings.