| Photographic | Photographic matching is best for images with many different colors and shades, especially when the image included a neutral color (such as a white border). This method allows for better continuous tone changes from one color to another. |
| Business Graphics | Business Graphics matching is best for charts, graphs, and other images with large areas of single colors. |
| Spot Color | Spot Color matching works best for images that have a large area of similar colors or shades of one color, and for images that do not include a neutral color (such as a white border). This method allows continuous tone consistency with any selected color. For example, a small background color behind a heading. |