Color Management - Nikon 25338 User Manual

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Color Management

INTENT
Use this preference to set the default
rendering intent for the various color
management features throughout
Capture NX. The different rendering
intents control how colors from your
image are made to fit into the colors
that your printer can produce as
indicated by the printer profile.
Please note: Different printer
and paper combinations, as well as
the different software used to create
printer profiles, benefit from different
rendering intents. Experiment with the
different rendering intents within your
workflow to find the option that works
best.
The four options are:
Perceptual
This rendering intent attempts to
maintain the relationships of colors so
that the printed image appears natural
to the human eye. While this intent
maintains the relationships of colors,
the actual color values will be changed.
Saturation
The Saturation rendering intent
attempts to produce highly saturated
colors, but it may not produce accurate
colors in a photograph.
Relative Colorimetric
This rendering intent maps the white
point of the image to the white point
as defined by the printer profile and
reproduces accurately all of the colors
that are within the range of colors
reproducible by your printer. All colors
that are outside of the range that your
printer can produce are shifted to
the closest color possible. 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
the Relative Colorimetric, except that
it does not map the white point of the
image to the white point of the desti-
nation profile. It is recommended that
you use Absolute Colorimetric 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 differ-
ent paper color.