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How Intent affects out-of-gamut colors - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Color Management
How Intent affects out-of-gamut colors
- In the last movie, I showed how to convert an RGB image into CMYK, using Photoshop's Convert to Profile feature. I went ahead and closed that image without saving it and I opened the fresh RGB version of the image again here, for this movie. Now, I'll go to the Edit menu, and I'll choose Convert to Profile again, and once again, I'm choosing a CMYK Profile, like GRACoL, here as my Destination or target, but, before I click OK, I want to point out that the Preview checkbox is turned on. That lets me see the change without closing the dialog box, so that's after and that's before. After and before. And you can see the colors changing, right? Those colors are changing because the gamut shapes are different. That is, the original image, which is in this sRGB profile, has these bright, saturated reds and yellows, but those same colors do not exist in the target, this Destination CMYK. So, those colors just cannot be reproduced. That's reality. So those colors just can't be reproduced…
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