Abstract: The accentuation method determines the relative magnitude of each color component. It selects and adjusts the magnitude of one or more of the colors as a function of the determined relative magnitudes each color component. The type and amount of the adjustment is a function of the relative magnitude differences. One or more of the magnitudes is adjusted to change the relative magnitudes. Typically, the differences in the subtractive color space is between the lowest and middle magnitude color. Also, typically, the lowest primary color component is reduced.