Datacolor User to User Support Group.

> Profile creation is not intent based; all the intents are created. Its
> when you go to use the profile that intent selection occurs.

> So there is no issue about what intent is selected at the time you
> print a target, measure the target, or build the profile, only at the
> point in time when you use the profile to print an image.

If this information is not highlighted in the documentation, it should  
be. It may be obvious from the actual profiling process, but it is  
easily forgotten...  all I could remember is that CDavid said at one  
point that "Saturation" intent was "recommended", so I have used that  
exclusively (unless the printing program didn't offer it).

I think I simply do not understand with these "Intents" do. I've been  
using Saturation Intent for ordinary scenic photography and portraits,  
which call for subtle colors and transitions, unlike "charts and  
graphs" that Adobe says Saturation is good for.  And my results are,  
it seems, very good.

So when does the "Intent" actually kick in? When would it make a  
difference? When the printing gamut does not match the gamut of the  
image, and colors must be adjusted to fit?

My male red/green weakness makes me suspicious of my color judgments,  
so it's difficult for me to just try these things and "see".

> ... we suggest you try the Saturation intent, as it may be just what
> you want.

Why wouldn't this be something you would suggest only if "Perceptual  
Intent" --- whose description corresponds with what most photographers  
are looking for --- is problematic in some specifiable way?

Myron