Nikon Capture Guide
Nikon Capture 4 CMS
The Color Management Tab (Windows)
The Color Management tab is where you specify the color management profiles used for displaying images on your monitor, editing and saving RGB images, and saving and printing CMYK images.
Change Display Profile
To choose a display profile, click Change Display Profile…. The Windows “Display Properties” dialog will be displayed; open the Settings tab and click Advanced… to open the display adapter properties dialog. To select a display profile, open the Color Management tab and click Add.
Default RGB color space
The output color-space profile used when working with RGB images is displayed here. Click Browse… to choose a new default RGB profile. If Use this instead of an embedded profile when opening files is checked, this RGB color space profile will be used for all images. If it is not checked, the profile embedded in each image will be used.
Multiple Displays (Windows)
In a multiple display environment, choose a single profile suited to all displays.
The Color Management Tab
Changes to settings in the Color Management tab also apply to Nikon Viewer, Nikon Capture 4 Editor, and Nikon Capture 4 Camera Control.
Default Display Profile
The default Windows display profile is “NKMonitor_win.icm.“ This profile is equivalent to sRGB.
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Printer profile
Specifies the printer profile to be used when printing images.
Use profile for printing
If this option is checked, you can choose a profile for printing by clicking the Browse… button. The selected profile will appear in the adjacent text box. If this option is not checked, the default RGB color space will be used.
Intent
If you have chosen to use a printer profile, the type of matching to be performed can be selected from Relative and Perceptual. (Depending on the profile, changing the matching method may produce no change in output. This option is not supported with some profiles; consult the manufacturer for details.)
Relative
Colors not in the gamut of the selected printer profile will be printed using the closest colors available. Other colors are not affected.
Perceptual
If the image contains colors not in the gamut of the selected printer profile, all colors in the image will be compressed to fit the gamut.
CMYK separation profile
Lists the profile used to convert RGB images to CMYK when saving images in CMYK-TIFF format. To choose a different profile, click the Browse… button.
Output
Check this option to convert the color space of image(s) to sRGB when you sent the image(s) by e-mail, upload to NikonNet, export as HTML file, save as JPEG file, or download to PDA devices. If the color space of the image(s) is already sRGB no conversion of the color space will be done. Set the color-space profiles for opening, saving, and converting image files.
RGB Color-Space Profiles
See Appendix A (
264) for more information on the standard color-space profiles supported under Nikon Capture 4.
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The Color Management Tab (Macintosh)
The Color Management tab is where you can specify the color management profiles used for displaying images on your monitor, editing and saving RGB images, saving and printing CMYK images, and settings for color space conversion.
ColorSync Default Profiles for Documents
The default color-space profiles are displayed in this area. Clicking the Open ColorSync button opens the ColorSync dialog to a panel where you can choose the default profiles for the RGB and CMYK color spaces .
RGB Default
Lists the output ICC color-space profile used when working with RGB images. If Use RGB Default instead of an embedded profile when opening files is checked, this RGB color space profile will be used for all images. If it is not checked, the profile embedded in each image will be used.
CMYK Default
Lists the profile used to convert RGB images to CMYK when saving images in CMYK-TIFF format.
Open ColorSync
Opens the ColorSync control panel (OS 9) or System Preferences (OS X), where you can choose the color profiles used.
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