Re: Setting default RGB in OS X 10.4?
Re: Setting default RGB in OS X 10.4?
- Subject: Re: Setting default RGB in OS X 10.4?
- From: Richard Wagner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:50:08 -0700
I came up with a solution to the Nikon Adobe RGB profile naming problem
that I posted here over a year ago; it's probably worth re-posting now.
For those who want the "real" Adobe1998 profile embedded in their files
(and not the Nikon "equivalent"), it's relatively easy to do without
resorting to PS to assign (or "null convert") profiles. This has no
functional significance, other than to decrease confusion among those
receiving the files who might otherwise think that the profiles are
significantly different.
The Nikon Adobe1998 (aka NKAdobe.icm) and bone fide Adobe1998.icm files
are very similar, but they are not exactly the same. Nikon, for some
inexplicable reason, left out the "Media black-point tristimulus"
setting, which should be 0,0,0. Everything else is essentially
identical to the
bone fide Adobe file. Therefore, instead of modifying the Nikon file to
have the correct non-Nikon, pure Adobe name inside (but with incomplete
media settings), use a copy of the real Adobe1998 file to replace
Nikon's file (NKAdobe.icm). Rename a copy of the Adobe file to
NKAdobe.icm and replace Nikon's version - it's located at (startup
disk)--> Library--> Application Support--> Nikon--> Profiles. It should
work fine, as Nikon's software is just looking for a profile with the
correct name. The embedded profile will then be AdobeRGB (1998),
rather than Nikon AdobeRGB (1998).
Make sure to watch out for other, similar-sounding files (e.g.,
%_NKAdobe.icm, etc.) that should NOT be replaced or modified.
--Rich
Rob Galbraith wrote:
"So, when Capture handles Color Mode II files through to completion
right now
it saves them with a Nikon Adobe RGB profile embedded (which is 99.8%
the
same internally as Adobe's Adobe RGB (1998), and in fact doesn't prompt
a
profile mismatch when opening into Photoshop).
When I open these files into Photoshop I can assign the *real* Adobe RGB
profile to these photos and continue on from there, since I'd just as
soon
not share with a client a pic with an embedded Nikon Adobe RGB profile.
This
will be an unnecessary point of confusion for them (well, so is any
embedded
profile for that matter, but that's a comment about the colour
management
savvy of some of the people I sell pictures to and is an entirely
separate
discussion). "
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