Abstract: A user selects an optimum balance between two different methods for clipping or compressing the colors of an image so that they all fall within the color gamut of an output device. By choosing a balance between two different clipping or compression methods, which are typically implemented with different color models, the user can quickly and easily adjust the colors of an image to produce the most desired image. If a color monitor can display all or nearly all of the colors of the output device, the image can be displayed on a color monitor and the user can very quickly choose between alternative adjustments of the balance between the two clippings or compression methods.

Abstract: An initialized (formatted) 1.44 MB floppy disk which is ready for receiving and storing files under the MACINTOSH.TM. operating system and the DOS operating system. Alternatively, the invention may be applied to any computer storage medium which may be written to and read by the MACINTOSH.TM. and DOS operating systems as if it were a disk. The storage medium is not bootable for either operating system. It contains a specially configured DOS BIOS parameter block in the first physical block, a DOS file allocation table in the second physical block, a MACINTOSH.TM. master directory block in the third physical block, and, by containing only zeros, an empty DOS Root Directory and an empty MACINTOSH.TM. Volume Bitmap in the fourth physical block.