Nikon CAPTURE NX2 User Manual

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Chapter 20 — Adjust Menu

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Color Profile

Capture NX 2 provides the following intents:

Use Black Point Compensation

Check this box to utilize black point compensation. This ensures that the black point from the image is
mapped to the black point of your printer, enabling the full color range of the printer to be used. If your
prints contain either gray shadows or too little detail, try turning this option off. Unless you are having
problems with a specific print and profile combination, it is recommended that you always use this option.

A

Please note

: Each color profile change will create a new step within the

Edit List palette. You may at any time

remove or change the color profile change within the current image editing session. If you save the image as an
NEF file, you will also be able to go back to the

Edit List palette and remove any of these changes without any loss

of color detail.

After you have updated the color profile information for your image, click on the

Apply button to accept

the changes.

Perceptual

This rendering intent maintains the relationships of colors so that the printed
image appears natural to the human eye. While this intent maintains the
relationship of colors, the actual color values will be changed.

Saturation

This rendering intent produces highly saturated colors, but it may not produce
accurate colors in a photograph.

Relative
Colorimetric

This rendering intent maps all of the colors that fall outside of the gamut of the
target profile to the closest reproducible color. This profile reproduces accurately
all of the colors that are within the range of colors reproducible by your printer.
This option preserves as many natural colors as possible and is often the best
choice for printing photographs.

Absolute
Colorimetric

This rendering intent is very similar to relative colorimetric, except that it maps
the white point of the image to the white point of the destination profile. It is
recommend that you use absolute colorimetric only if you want to proof your
images for a specific print device other than your printer, since this rendering
intent will attempt to reproduce the results of the output device, including the
effect of a different paper color.

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