Patent ID: 6894806

Claim:
A method of transforming a file of digital color data representing a color image to a new file of digital color data where one or more colors have been transformed to one or more new color locations where their reproduction is known to be preferred, said method comprising the steps of: (a) providing the digital color data in a multi-dimensional color space; (b) specifying one or more preferred color locations in the color space as one or more color magnets, wherein each color magnet has an influence on other colors in the color space wherein the strength of the color magnet's influence is a function of the distance of the other color in color space from the color magnet; (c) calculating color space distance between one or more color locations of the digital color data in the color space and one or more of the color magnets; (d) prescribing a particular behavior for each color magnet that determines the characteristic of the effects on surrounding colors in the color space of each color magnet; and (e) remapping the digital color data to new locations in the multi-dimensional color space as a function of the color space distance of individual data locations from each color magnet and the behavior of the color magnet(s), wherein the degree or strength of behavior's influence is a function of at least the color space distance from the color magnet(s) or direction in color space.