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printing articles on Michael Reichmann's site

(http://www.luminous-landscape.com) for some help in

dialing in the right options so that only one program is

managing color.

Finally, you need to learn about "soft proofing." My Epson

inkjet printer can't really reproduce some of the blues my

camera can capture, for example. By having the right paper

profile set in my software and turning soft proofing on, I can

see this while editing, and attempt to adjust for it.

Advanced users only. Technically, the sensor of the D300

doesn't have a Color Space, because it should "capture"

any color of light that hits the photosites within the spectral

range that it allows through. (It would need a color profile,

though, because there may be some anomalies in the

capture process.)

Many pros believe that if you shoot raw files (NEF), you

should use the largest possible Color Space possible when

working on those images. That would be ProPhoto RGB.

Indeed, many pros (and Lightroom and Aperture by default)

set their raw conversion software to this Color Space in

order to preserve every last bit of color accuracy and

subtlety. (You don't need to, and can't, set the camera to

this Color Space, just your software. But that only works for

In practice, though, most amateurs needn't go to that

trouble (ProPhoto RGB chews up computer memory and

may slow you down, amongst other things), as the Epson

inkjets most people typically print with won't reveal any

tangible differences. That's because the Epson printers have

a Color Space very similar to AdobeRGB. Still, even the

Epson printers do have a bit of color ability that's outside

the AdobeRGB space, so if you're into getting the maximum

possible quality, you might want to explore ProPhotoRGB.

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