Viewing Your Images - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

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5. If it isn't already in 8-bit RGB, convert the image to 8-

bit RGB color (16-bit RGB color and Lab Color aren't

usually supported by commercial printers).

6. Use the Canvas Size menu item to make sure that

your final image size is one that the Frontier supports

(e.g. 8x10" in the US). In other words, if the final crop

of your image was 7x9.5" you would use Canvas

Size to center that on an 8x10" canvas. (If you don't

perform this step, the Frontier—and most other

automated printers—resizes your image, causing all

kinds of ugly artifacts.)

7. Use Photoshop to convert the Color Space you were

working in, if necessary (e.g. AdobeRGB), to the one

the Frontier uses (sRGB). (If you give a Frontier an

image in a Color Space it doesn't support, guess what,

you get wrong colors!)

8. Save the image as a TIFF or JPEG file. Do not embed

the Color Space (usually a checkbox in the Save

dialog; it's ignored by the printer, anyway).

9. Save all your images on a CD-R and take them to the

Viewing Your Images

The D300 can be connected to a television so that what

would normally appear on its color LCD appears instead on

the TV. It can also present a "slide show" of all the images on

the CompactFlash card inside your camera.

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