Nikon Capture Guide

Nikon Capture 4 CMS

The Color Management Tab (Windows)

The Color Management tab is where you spec i fy the color management profi les used for
displaying im ag es on your monitor, ed it ing and saving RGB images, and saving and printing
CMYK images.

Change Display Profi le

To choose a display profi le, click Change Display Profi le…. 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 profi le, open the Color Management
tab and click Add.

Default RGB color space

The output color-space profi le used when work ing with RGB images is displayed here. Click
Browse… to choose a new default RGB profi le. If Use this instead of an em bed ded profi le
when opening fi les is checked, this RGB color space profi le will be used for all images. If it is
not checked, the profi le embedded in each image will be used.

Multiple Displays (Windows)

In a multiple display environment, choose a single profi le 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 Profi le

The default Windows display profi le is “NKMonitor_win.icm.“ This profi le is equivalent to sRGB.

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Printer profi le

Specifi es the printer profi le to be used when printing images.

Use profi le for printing

If this option is checked,

you can choose a profi le for printing by clicking the Browse…
but ton. The selected profi le 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 cho sen to use a printer profi le, the type of match ing to be per formed can be
selected from Rel a tive and Per cep tu al. (De pend ing on the pro fi le, chang ing the match-
ing meth od may produce no change in output. This option is not sup port ed with some
profi les; con sult the man u fac tur er for de tails.)

Relative

Colors not in the gamut of the selected printer profi le 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 profi le, all colors in
the image will be compressed to fi t the gamut.

CMYK separation profi le

Lists the profi le used to convert RGB images to CMYK when saving images in CMYK-TIFF
for mat. To choose a dif fer ent profi le, 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 fi le, save as JPEG fi le, 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 profi les for opening, saving, and converting image fi les.

RGB Color-Space Profi les

See Appendix A ( 264)
Capture 4.

for more information on the standard color-space profi les supported under Nikon

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The Color Management Tab (Macintosh)

The Color Management tab is where you can specify the color management profi les 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 Profi les for Documents

The default color-space profi les are displayed in this area. Clicking the Open ColorSync
but ton opens the ColorSync dialog to a panel where you can choose the default profi les for
the RGB and CMYK color spaces .

RGB Default

Lists the output ICC color-space profi le used when working with RGB images. If Use RGB
Default instead of an embedded profi le when opening fi les is checked, this RGB color

space profi le will be used for all images. If it is not checked, the profi le embedded in each
image will be used.

CMYK Default

Lists the profi le used to convert RGB images to CMYK when saving images in CMYK-TIFF
format.

Open ColorSync

Opens the ColorSync con trol panel (OS 9) or Sys tem Pref er enc es (OS X), where you can
choose the color profi les used.

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