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what’s being used:
Note: Nikon has their own Color Space definitions, and yes, they
are very subtly different from the ones Adobe supplies (note
the name
Nikon Adobe RGB 4.0.0.3000
in the above
screen shot versus the name
Adobe RGB (1988)
in the
Photoshop CS3 screen shot, above). If you’re paranoid and
use both Capture NX and Photoshop CS3, you can use the
same Color Space definition in both products (i.e. both
options should appear in the pop-up list).
Be sure to select the printer profile that is for your printer and
paper if you want to soft proof in Capture NX.
Fine Tuning the Color
In this abbreviated color management lesson we only
suggested that you
profile
your monitor. In general, once
you’ve done this and set your working Color Spaces in your
software correctly, you should be able to take a picture with
known colors in it and follow it all the way through to print
without seeing any major deviations.
Note the word “major” in the last sentence. If you
do
see a
big color shift, something isn’t set right and you shouldn’t try
to proceed until you’ve corrected whatever’s wrong. It might
simply be that you got the white balance wrong while
shooting or selected a non-default paper while printing. But
major deviations of color at this point would usually indicate
that you’ve set something wrong in the color management
dialogs or haven’t correctly profiled your monitor (or have
