Nikon CS 5000 and Nikon Scan color management

[andrewnelles]

I recently acquired a Nikon CS 5000 and am using Nikon Scan for the software. I've worked on one of these at a previous employer and always was pleased with the results, however now that I have one at home I've hit one annoying snag.

The files look perfect in preview, after the scan they are spot on in the Nikon post-scan preview, however when i save a tif or jpg, and pull it in photoshop, it is brighter, flatter, and green. The file has the scanners color space embedded, a quick convert to AdobeRGB and some tuning and curves easilly fixes it, however, I'd like to have my files match the preview, as I remember the case always being.

Any tips? I'm assuming I have something set wrong in the Nikon Scan color management settings. I'm primarilly outputting to a final file of AdobeRGB JPG's if that helps.

Thanks in advance!

 

[andrewnelles]

Still having the problem. Seems to be a color space issue. Today I as scanning slides, looked great in preview, came into photoshop much brighter and with strong blue cast.

Any idea on a solution?

 

[jtb688]

I had this exact problem; it took me a day to figure out what was going on. Instead of using Windows' color management, like basically all other software does, nikon defaults to using a color profile for the monitor that it provides with the software. On my wide-gamut monitor, this makes scans look nice and vibrant. But when any other software loads it and applies the (correct) color mappings it looks very dull.

To fix this, in Nikon Scan's preferences window, you can choose the monitor profile. This should be the icm file for your monitor, the same as is used by windows (initially it would not accept the .icm I was using under windows, but I found another .icm file for my monitor on the web that did work). Scans will no longer be so vibrant but they will be accurate and reproducible between applications.

Best of luck.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

You have to tell it what monitor profile is used so the previews will display correctly, but you also have to specify an output colorspace. Sounds like its set to use the scanner color space now, which requires conversion to an editing space like AdobeRGB or sRGB, as you figured out. In the preferences you can set it to output an Adobe RGB file.