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Preferences— Nikon Color Management
Keeping Colors True in Other Applications
Keeping Colors True in Other Applications
When an image is scanned in the Nikon Scan TWAIN source or ac quire
plug-in and opened in another application, or when an image saved
using Nikon Scan is opened in another application, the image will be
pro cessed ac cord ing to the col or-space and monitor profi les se lect ed in
the application before being displayed on the monitor. If the pro fi les
used in the ap pli ca tion do not match those used in Nikon Scan, col ors
may not be the same as those in the original image.
RGB Color Model
Choose a monitor pro fi le that match es that cho sen in the “Monitor”
tab and a color-space pro fi le that match es that se lect ed in the “RGB”
tab (the Photoshop pro fi les cor re spond ing to those used in Nikon Scan
are list ed on the preceding pag es). If no match ing RGB profi le exists,
you can use the Nikon Scan profi les in the path Pro gram Files\Common
Files\Nikon\Profi les (Win dows) or Sys tem Folder : Pref er enc es : Nikon
MAID : Profi les (Macintosh). The fi les containing the profi les listed in
the RGB sheet are given below.
Profi le
File name
sRGB
NKsRGB.icm
Bruce RGB
NKBruce.icm
NTSC (1953)
NKNTSC.icm
Adobe RGB (1998)
NKAdobe.icm
CIE RGB
NKCIE.icm
Wide Gamut RGB
NKWide.icm
Apple RGB
NKApple.icm
Color Match RGB
NKMatch.icm
Apple RGB (compensated)
NKApple_CPS.icm
* Do not use the “Scanner RGB” profi le when scanning images for use
in a third-party application.
When Nikon Scan is used as an acquire plug-in to the Macintosh version
of Adobe Photoshop 5 or later (full ver sion), the RGB profi le will auto-
matically be passed to Photoshop when the image is scanned. Be sure
that the monitor profi le matches that used in Photoshop by selecting the
Photoshop monitor profi le in the monitor sheet of the Nikon Scan color
management tab.
CMYK Color Model
Choose a monitor pro fi le that match es that cho sen in the monitor sheet
and a color-space pro fi le that match es that se lect ed in the CMYK sheet.
When Nikon Scan is used as an acquire plug-in to the Macintosh ver-
sion of Adobe Photoshop 5 or later (full ver sion), the CMYK profi le will
automatically be passed to Photoshop when the image is scanned.
