How does camera picture style settings affect post-proc?

[steamboatscott]

Simple question....how does my picture style settings (ie. sharpness) on the camera play out in post-processing? I took three pictures, one with sharpens = 0, another with sharpness = 3, and a final with sharpness = 6. When looking at each picture in Adobe Camera Raw, the sharpness setting there defaults to the same. Is the camera's sharpness or other picture style settings ignored in raw, or is it hard coded at the camera and I can't revert/change in post-proc?

[dcclark]

If you're looking at a raw file, then the "picture style setting" is merely a setting recorded with the image, but not yet applied to it. When you convert from raw to an actual image, the settings you've chosen are applied -- so if you choose "sharpness = 3", that will happen only after the image is actually converted to a jpeg. If you choose "white balance = cloudy", same thing.

When you say that "the sharpness setting there defaults to the same", do you mean that in each of the three images, the sharpness setting was set to 0, 3, or 6 (as you shot it)? If so, that's the correct behavior. However, you can still change those numbers in Camera Raw if you decide you want something different.

If you shoot straight to jpegs, then the settings are applied in camera and can't be undone.

[steamboatscott]

What I mean is that even though I shot three different images with the camera, each with a different sharpness setting on camera, when I load them into ACR, the sharpness amount, radius, etc are the same.

Based on a few other forums, it appears that Canon's DPP honors the picture style settings (at least initially until you change/override) for RAW but ACR does not.

[photolover]

ACR cannot read the in-camera settings, so it does not matter whether you set sharpness to 0, 3,its going to show the same sharpening, as you also have noticed.
Don't waste your time in it, its not worth. You won't find anything.

[dcclark]

I don't use ACR, but I'd be extremely surprised if it didn't read any camera settings. Those are encoded directly into the RAW file. I'm waiting for someone else to chime in though...

[steamboatscott]

I think I have confirmed ACR doesn't read the in-camera settings. Only reason I was wanting to do this is the 7D appears to need a little sharpening with all images, and I wanted to just set in camera and forget. Guess I'll just change my ACR defaults on sharpness.