A profile that allows applications to perform special color effects independent of the devices on which the effects are rendered See also: profile, color space profile, device profile, named color space profile

a way of specifying a color adjustment in a device independent way

A profile for making color changes by transforming data within the profile connection space; it does not represent any device. The color space of the input and output data is that of the profile connection space, and so abstract profiles cannot be embedded in an image.