Setting Color Spaces And Profiles In Your Software - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

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4. Use the Direction pad to select your Color Space and
press the > key on the Direction pad to make it active.

Setting Color Spaces and Profiles in Your Software

But simply setting a Color Space in camera isn't always
enough to get perfect color. You also have to set the Color
Space in your software.
Moreover, slight variances in device abilities can cause them
to deviate from the defined Color Space. Thus we often
"profile" a particular device. That's exactly what we do with
our monitors when we use a calibration tool such as
Pantone's Huey or Colorvision's Spyder.
Color profiles are where color management gets a bit
confusing. For example, when you calibrate your monitor
with Colorvision's hardware or software (or any of the
alternative choices—I use Colorvision as an example because
its low price and decent quality make it a good match for
most D300 users), what happens? Well, Colorvision's
software alters information that your video driver uses to send
signals to your monitor. For example, if the Colorvision
Spyder detected that your monitor wasn't producing enough
blue, it would alter the video driver to produce "more blue"
in colors sent to the monitor.
However, the video driver changes only occur for what I'll
call "color aware" programs (on Windows; virtually all
Macintosh programs use the value set in ColorSync and are
automatically color aware). Photoshop, for example, is color
aware and the profiled monitor settings the Colorvision makes
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