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Nikon Capture 4 Editor Preferences

The Color Management Tab (Windows)

The Color Management tab is where you specify the color management profiles used for displaying images on your monitor, ed- iting 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.

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 match- ing 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.

Default Display Profile

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

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