- The picture style specifies a curve which is applied to this input image in order to make it presentable. This is usually some sort of S-shaped curve to make the image more contrasty: shadows and highlights are compressed. Custom Canon picture styles further enhance this behaviour by allowing curves to be applied on top of the default curve.
- Shooting Menu, Tab 4: Picture Style: Neutral with Strength = 1 (Note: the low contrast 'Neutral' picture style provides a histogram on the back of the camera that most-accurately shows me blown highlights and blocked shadows on the camera LCD. I usually change the Picture Style to 'Standard' in DPP after capture.).
- Picture Controls/Styles are applied to JPEG images, so the image quality has to be set to either JPEG or RAW+JPEG. Once a JPEG photo has been taken with a certain Picture Control/Style, you can’t go back and reverse it to something else. So if you shoot a JPEG photo in black and white, it will be black and white forever.
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Canon’s Picture Style settings make it easy to get optimum image quality by choosing from a few overall styles. Each setting has its own subtle look to color rendition, contrast, and sharpening. You can further modify each as needed in your camera’s menu, or with Canon’s Digital Photo Professional (DPP) software.
␡- Adjusting Picture Styles
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Adjusting Picture Styles
Your camera probably has a second setting to help you control the way that the equipment records color. Canon calls it 'Picture Style,' but other manufacturers have their own terminology. Here are a few of the popular brands and their names for this function:
- Nikon: Picture Control
- Sony: Creative Style
- Pentax: Custom Image
- Olympus: Picture Mode
I'm a Canon user and accustomed to using the Picture Style function, so I'll use that term through the rest of this article.
The Picture Style setting is the digital equivalent of film type. When shooting with film, you can select the type of film that suits your subject. For example, Fuji Velvia is popular with landscape photographers because of its low ISO and saturated colors. However, that effect is a bit strong for portraits, so a portrait photographer would choose a film designed for portraits, such as Kodak Portra. Portrait films generally create softer, less saturated images and are designed to render skin tones in a flattering way. If you want to take a black-and-white photo, then you need to use black-and-white film.
Obviously, digital cameras don't have film that you can change; instead, you achieve various effects by changing the Picture Style. The latest Canon EOS cameras offer six Picture Style settings (see Figure 3): Standard, Landscape, Portrait, Monochrome, Faithful, and Neutral. The first three settings are the ones that you're likely to use the most: The Standard Picture Style is designed for general use, the Landscape Picture Style enhances green and blue tones such as grass and blue sky, and the Portrait Picture Style creates good skin tones.
Figure 3 Picture Style options available on Canon EOS cameras.
Nikon cameras have similar names for their Picture Control settings: Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, and Landscape. The names make each setting fairly clear. If your Nikon camera lacks some of these Picture Controls, you can download them from the Nikon website.
One really useful Picture Style feature is that you can alter the settings to suit the look you're trying to create. Most Canon Picture Styles have four parameters that you can alter (see Figure 4): sharpness, contrast, color saturation, and color tone. Nikon Picture Controls are similar, giving you the additional option of adjusting brightness.
Figure 4 Most Picture Styles have four adjustable parameters.
The Monochrome Picture Style and Monochrome Picture Control work differently; instead of adjusting color saturation and hue, you can dial in colored filter and toning effects (see Figure 5).
Figure 5 The Monochrome Picture Style has color filter and toning effects instead of color saturation and color tone parameters.
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00silvergt00silvergt 3,309 posts Likes: 6 Joined May 2007 Location: Vacaville, CA | I don't know if this has been posted before, I tried searching and couldn't find the link. Anyway, here's the USA Canon site with the 5 downloadable Picture Styles. I haven't tried it yet. Weird thing is they offer you 5, but can only upload 3 at a time to your camera, at least for the 30D that is the case. 'Ne nuntium necare' LOG IN TO REPLY |
microman23microman23 728 posts Joined Sep 2007 | These are all things you can do your self in picture style right? Why would someone download these then? LOG IN TO REPLY |
00silvergt00silvergt THREAD STARTER 3,309 posts Likes: 6 Joined May 2007 Location: Vacaville, CA | No, these are new presets from Canon which includes hidden settings, e.g. If you look at the control panel, Neutral and Faithful is set the same way, but the pictures look different. Checkout the page my friend and see. Also I would like to remind everyone or point out these of course only applies to JPEG shooters. RAW files save the Picture Style data, but it is not applied. Thanks. 'Ne nuntium necare' LOG IN TO REPLY |
microman23microman23 728 posts Joined Sep 2007 | 00silvergt wrote in post #3976348 No, these are new presets from Canon which includes hidden settings, e.g. If you look at the control panel, Neutral and Faithful is set the same way, but the pictures look different. Checkout the page my friend and see. Also I would like to remind everyone or point out these of course only applies to JPEG shooters. RAW files save the Picture Style data, but it is not applied. Thanks. So can you apply the settings later in PS or LR later on RAW? LOG IN TO REPLY |
00silvergt00silvergt THREAD STARTER 3,309 posts Likes: 6 Joined May 2007 Location: Vacaville, CA | microman23 wrote in post #3976378 So can you apply the settings later in PS or LR later on RAW? No, but you can use DPP, read the page and you will see a link to 'How to apply Picture Styles to pictures in Software'. It will show you step by step with screen shots. 'Ne nuntium necare' LOG IN TO REPLY |
microman23microman23 728 posts Joined Sep 2007 | ok thanks LOG IN TO REPLY |
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muscleflexmuscleflex 3,013 posts Likes: 3 Joined Jun 2005 Location: UK | thanks for the link - just been reading on it and looking at the pics and styles. Canon 1D MK III |Canon EOS 20D |Canon 16-35 II [COLOR=red]L [COLOR=black]|Canon 100-400 [COLOR=red]L IS| [COLOR=#000000]Canon 50mm II 1.8 | Canon 580 EX II LOG IN TO REPLY |
00silvergt00silvergt THREAD STARTER 3,309 posts Likes: 6 Joined May 2007 Location: Vacaville, CA | muscleflex wrote in post #3976438 thanks for the link - just been reading on it and looking at the pics and styles. do they appy to the MK3? Yep, the MK3 has Picture Styles, but again it only works if you shoot JPEG or RAW + JPEG. 'Ne nuntium necare' LOG IN TO REPLY |
ItsMikeItsMike 2,185 posts Likes: 5 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Greenlawn NY | I use 'Mike's Custom Picture Styles' in Photoshop... LOG IN TO REPLY |
dave_bass5dave_bass5 4,303 posts Gallery: 34 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 199 Joined Apr 2005 Location: London, centre of the universe | Actually you can now create these yourself as Canon have released a Picture style editor. It comes free with the 40D at the moment but im sure it will be available to download soon. Dave. LOG IN TO REPLY |
tzalmantzalman 13,488 posts Likes: 202 Joined Apr 2005 Location: Gesher Haziv, Israel | dave_bass5 wrote in post #3976987 Actually you can now create these yourself as Canon have released a Picture style editor. It comes free with the 40D at the moment but im sure it will be available to download soon. In Nov., sez Canon. And totally pointless if you are shooting RAW as most of us do. Not if you use DPP. Great if you use DPP. Elie / אלי LOG IN TO REPLY |
dave_bass5dave_bass5 4,303 posts Gallery: 34 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 199 Joined Apr 2005 Location: London, centre of the universe | tzalman wrote in post #3977065 I Not if you use DPP. Great if you use DPP. sorry, i meant having it in camera. Dave. LOG IN TO REPLY |
Medic85Medic85 2,018 posts Joined May 2006 Location: Charlotte, NC | I didn't see where you could download any of that for the XTi. LOG IN TO REPLY |
dave_bass5dave_bass5 4,303 posts Gallery: 34 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 199 Joined Apr 2005 Location: London, centre of the universe | Medic85 wrote in post #3977188 I didn't see where you could download any of that for the XTi. If you cant download it for your camera just download it and put it in DPP. Dave. LOG IN TO REPLY |
dave_bass5dave_bass5 4,303 posts Gallery: 34 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 199 Joined Apr 2005 Location: London, centre of the universe | This page also has the Emerald pic style. Dave. LOG IN TO REPLY |
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