V1.02
Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
Page 748
5.
If it isn’t already in 8-bit RGB, convert the image to 8-
bit RGB color (16-bit RGB color and Lab Color aren’t
usually supported by commercial printers).
6.
Use the
Canvas Size
menu item to make sure that
your final image size is one that the Frontier supports
(e.g. 8x10” in the US). In other words, if the final crop
of your image was 7x9.5” you would use
Canvas
Size
to center that on an 8x10” canvas. (If you don’t
perform this step, the Frontier—and most other
automated printers—resizes your image, causing all
kinds of ugly artifacts.)
7.
Use Photoshop to
convert
the Color Space you were
working in, if necessary (e.g. AdobeRGB), to the one
the Frontier uses (sRGB). (If you give a Frontier an
image in a Color Space it doesn’t support, guess what,
you get wrong colors!)
8.
Save the image as a TIFF or JPEG file.
Do not
embed
the Color Space (usually a checkbox in the Save
dialog; it’s ignored by the printer, anyway).
9.
Save all your images on a CD-R and take them to the
printer.
Viewing Your Images
The D300 can be connected to a television so that what
would normally appear on its color LCD appears instead on
the TV. It can also present a “slide show” of all the images on
the CompactFlash card inside your camera.
