topic Re: Picture Editor in Camera Software

Picture Editor

jazzman1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:45:46 GMT

I have Canon Photo Professional and also have Canon Picture Style Editor. Are these programs meant to be used togather or is Canon giving one an option of which you want to use. Alot of the features duplicate eachother.

Re: Picture Editor

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:35:42 GMT

Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is a photo editor. It will allow you to edit RAW or JPEG files for color balance, cropping, sharpening etc.
 
Picture Style Editor is a very specialized program. Its purpose is to modify the Canon provided Picture Styles to get the effects you want. Then you save the modified PS and load it in your camera and/or apply in DPP when diting images.
 
Picture Styles only matter if you are shooting JPEG in camera or processing RAW files in DPP.
 
Non-Canon software won't recognize Picture Styles in your RAW files.
 
http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/galleries/galleries/tutorials/pse_tutorials_gallery.shtml
 
http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/resources/videos/tutorials/dpp/dpp_tour.shtml

Re: Picture Editor

jazzman1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:22:13 GMT

thanks, i will stay with dpp for now. i'm a newbie in DSLR's and i'm trying to get my feet wet in the art. there's much that i've learned in a short while but still trying to wrap it all around my head. I'm 68 yrs old and none of this stuff comes easy for me, not like it would when i was 20. I'm trying to just grasp the basics at the moment and will keep struggling along till i get the hang of it all..

Re: Picture Editor

cicopo — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:27:11 GMT

The benefit of shooting in RAW & processing the files to create a jpg has one HUGE benefit in that you can re edit over & over creating an endless number of jpg's with minor changes because you never alter the original CR2. On the other side of the arguement someone who must shoot & share or submit images quickly like a sports photographer could very carefully create a personalized Picture Style to suit their idea as to just how they want a camera's jpg's to look. Each way has a place & fits different needs.

Re: Picture Editor

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:34:04 GMT

When I want to upload quickly I shoot RAW+JPEG. Takes more card space, but storage is cheap.

Re: Picture Editor

cicopo — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:57:27 GMT

I've been shooting RAW + Large fine jpg AND saving the RAW files for at least the last 8 years. My new strategy (I've been cleaning up several back up drives & am in the middle of updating to Win 8.1) is to keep the CR2's, keep low res versions of the jpg's as an index and creating 2 back up drives with anything family related to pass on when I'm gone. No one in my family will care about the events or underwater stuff but family photos need to be easy to find.

Re: Picture Editor

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 02:03:45 GMT

That's a good idea. I could free up a lot of space with that approach.

Re: Picture Editor

cicopo — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 02:36:25 GMT

It has emptied at least 4 large drives for me plus saved me buying one new one for this summer's events. When I cover an event I shoot a lot of photos that won't get into the album but may be wanted later for other reasons so I had been keeping both the full file jpg + the CR2. My new plan is at the end of the season I'll create a low res jpg file that displays nicely on my monitor & that might make a 4 X 6 print & the CR2's, delete the full file jpg's and move on.

Re: Picture Editor

jazzman1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 03:35:03 GMT

you guys went right over my head

Re: Picture Editor

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:12:19 GMT

Sorry. I guess we did hijack the thread.

To your original question - use DPP.

Picture Style Editor is a very specialized program for someone who wants to tweak the Canon supplied Picture Styled and apply that look over many images.

Re: Picture Editor

cicopo — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:31:04 GMT

Agree with above. DPP allows fine tuning single images or bulk processing of multiple images using the settings you've applied to one by saving those changes as a recepie to use on other files. Picture style when used in camera applies it's recepie to all the files shot while that picture style is selected (to the jpg's) limiting what can be done to them later. When using DPP (or another RAW editor) the original file stays exactly as shot & you've created a jpg from that file without modifying the RAW. Because the RAW is unaltered you can change how you process it (add more saturation, change exposure etc) and create another slightly different jpg as many times as you'd like.

Everyone has their own file system but when I process I add a version number to the file so that if I'm trying my very best to create the look I think I saw when I took the shot & I'm fine tuning in small steps my file numbers end in v1, v2 etc where the v stands for version. v1 would be my first conversion to a jpg, then some more tuning becomes v2 and so on. When I'm really being picky I'll edit in DPP & Photoshop ACR so the file also gets DPP or ACR added to the file number to help me later if even more fine tuning is required. I rarely get that fussy but if I'm making a big print I want to be as good as the scene I have in my head at the moment I shot the frame.

Re: Picture Editor

jazzman1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:03:59 GMT

Not a problem my friend we all do that at times. thanks much.

Re: Picture Editor

jazzman1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:05:25 GMT

i understand, sure do.