Guidelines for Configuring Custom Color Transform Chains Manually

Although Autodesk Color Management provides tools to automatically apply the required transforms to convert between color spaces, there may be special situations where you require more control over the specific transforms to apply. This section describes how you may use the components found in the Autodesk color transform collection as building blocks to assemble customized conversions for specific tasks.

In Creative Finishing products, you have the option of using Custom mode to specify a transform from the collection or another source, or to create a chain of several such transforms. For other applications, you may need to use a text or XML editor to create and edit .ctf files. In either case, see Custom Color Transforms for details.

The question of which transforms to apply depends on the specific situation. These situations can be divided into categories that require similar treatment.