RAW Help please

[dearcharlie]

Hi.. i know all about raw and what it means.

but i need a little help in post, i love my camera settings i use but when i edit my raw files in lightroom/bridge i can see that it keeps my settings for a couple seconds before it renders the image 100% then it removes them and puts them at a default setting ect.. is there ANY way at all that i can keep my settings in raw.. any program that can help.

when i use the DPP viewer for canon it keeps them but i cant edit in that :P and i cant ever edit in lightroom and get those same effect i have one my camera settings, and i dont want to shoot in JPG just too keep them ( but starting to want to :P )

is there any kind of program that will let me recreate my settings that i use on my cannon and import them or something like that :P

please help
thank you

[gturner]

can you explain exactly which settings?

[dearcharlie]

hi.. the picture style settings on the canons..sharpness, contrast, saturation, color tone . thank you

[BCampbell]

Here's what's happening.

Shooting in RAW literally gives you the raw data from the sensor. When you set your parameters, these are not applied to the RAW image -- few things in software are, not even your white balance setting -- but those settings are saved with your RAW file.

The catch is, only Canon's software reads this Canon data. That's why you see it applied in DPP; DPP reads the RAW file and the parameter data and then figures hey, that's what you wanted, let's go ahead and apply those.

Opening in another RAW viewer/editor will not apply these settings. But the real point is that you're shooting RAW in order to have more control over your photos. If you want the camera to do the work of adjusting your saturation, contrast, sharpness, white balance, etc., just shoot in JPG and let it. You're shooting RAW so you can do it yourself.

If you do find that you have a certain set of adjustments you typically do to every photo, you should be able to save those adjustments to either have them automatically apply when you open a file or to select a profile to easily apply many different adjustments. I don't use Adobe so I don't know exactly how you would go about that.

[Samanax]

Go to Camera Calibration in Lightroom or ACR and you'll see a Camera Profile drop down menu that gives you different profiles you can use. The choices with "camera" in the title will give you settings that are similar to what you get in-camera. Play around with them to see what the different choices do to your pictures.