Digital BW, The Print

> The monitor profile is only for the monitor -- think of it as 
sitting
> between the image in its RGB working space (AdobeRGB?) and the
> screen. You should now have an 'adobe gamma loader' program in
> your startup folder, which makes sure the monitor profile is applied
> to everything you see on the screen.

The Gamma loader is in the folder.  As for the colorspace of the 
scanner, I'm not sure.  Nikon Color Management was off by default in 
Nikon Scan (3.1.2)  Do I need to turn it on?  I saw many posts 
earlier saying most folks disable most of the bells and whistles, but 
I can't really understand how that helps get more information from 
the scan.  

> Use the histogram tool in Nikonscan. On some images you should
> adjust white point, black point, and/or analog gain, to make sure 
you
> capture everything before going to Photoshop.

I didn't have to touch the analog gain, but I did have a problem with 
the previews.  Upon further examination, I saw that the auto-exposure 
was disabled in the preview, but not the scans, making for a dramatic 
difference between the preview and the scan.  Now I'm getting great 
scans.


> See Ian Lyons's website ( www.computer-darkroom.com ) for some
> good step by step instructions...

Wow, that article on color management is fantastic.  VERY HELPFUL,  
Thanks!