topic Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes? in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R7 JPG Picture Profiles / Recipes?

justadude — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:23:40 GMT

A friend of mine was recently gifted a Canon R7 camera by her fiancé, to replace her old and tired Fujifilm camera. She has asked for some help from me on understanding a lot of the (new to her) menu since she knows I shoot Canon. I've been able to help her a lot on the different settings, but in one area I am looking for some suggestions here from the group.

Let me start here...

She loved the Fujifilm recipes, and was a little disappointed that Canon does not have these. I need to add that she does not love editing at all. I offered to teach her, but she said editing would take away from her love of photography - make it feel like a chore. She is asking me how she can learn to set up (adjust?) just a few JPEG picture profiles to look like some of the recipes she had before. Some of her favorites looked like film.

I know that Canon does NOT have the same custom options like Fujifilm does, and I explained that to her, so no need to tell me that. However a quick Google search gave me a billion (ok, only a million) options on how to go about setting a few of these up to kind of resemble Fujifilm recipes. I have never attempted anything like this, simply because I like editing RAW files. So... Instead of me sifting through a million (ok, in reality, only 100,000) videos and articles... has anyone here ever had any luck with setting up a few film like JPEG profiles on their Canon camera? If so, can you point me towards links of ones that actually look good (instead of the 99,990 that look mediocre)?

And just in case you are think of suggesting this, she does not want to trade in the R7 for a newer Fujifilm. She said her fiancé would be disappointed, and she really does love the camera and has been excited to learn more about it.

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

jrhoffman75 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:02:20 GMT

I have never used. but found this via search.

Canon Picture Style Editor is another tool.

https://global.canon/en/imaging/picturestyle/editor/

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

shadowsports — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:01:58 GMT

Gary,

The picture styles option mentioned by John is a good one. 👍 Hopefully that "works" for her.

DPP also supports recipes. With minimal work, she could create a her own recipie(s) and apply them to her images globally. Canon has superior color science. You can only encourage her. The rest depends on her.

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

johnrmoyer — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:28:02 GMT

https://cam.start.canon/en/C005/manual/html/UG-02_BasicShooting_0030.html

Available Shooting Modes in SCN Mode

Shooting Mode
	Portrait		Close-up
	Group Photo		Food
	Landscape		Night Portrait
	Panoramic shot		Handheld Night Scene
	Sports		HDR Backlight Control
	Kids		Silent shutter
	Panning

https://cam.start.canon/en/C005/manual/html/UG-02_BasicShooting_0170.html

Creative Filters Mode

You can shoot with filter effects applied. Filter effects can be previewed before you shoot.

Creative Filter Characteristics

Grainy B/W

Makes the image grainy and black and white. By adjusting the contrast, you can change the black-and-white effect.
Soft focus

Gives the image a soft look. By adjusting the blur, you can change the degree of softness.
Fish-eye effect

Gives the effect of a fish-eye lens. The image will have barrel distortion.

Depending on the level of this filter effect, the area trimmed along the periphery of the image changes. Also, because this filter effect magnifies the center of the image, the apparent resolution at the center may degrade depending on the number of recorded pixels, so set the filter effect while checking the resulting image. One AF point is used, fixed at the center.
Water painting effect

Makes the photo look like a watercolor painting with soft colors. By adjusting the effect, you can change the color density. Note that night scenes or dark scenes may not be rendered with a smooth gradation and may look irregular or have significant noise.
Toy Camera effect

Shifts colors to those typical of toy cameras and darkens the four corners of the image. Color tone options can be used to change the color cast.
Miniature effect

Creates a diorama effect.

Shooting under the default setting will keep the center looking sharp.

To move the area that looks sharp (the scene frame), see Adjusting the Miniature Effect. [1-point AF] is used as the AF area. Shooting with the AF point and scene frame aligned is recommended.
HDR art standard

Photos retain more detail in highlights and shadows. With reduced contrast and flatter gradation, the finish resembles a painting. The subject outlines will have bright (or dark) edges.
HDR art vivid

Colors are more saturated than with [

HDR art standard], and the low contrast and flat gradation resemble graphic art.
HDR art bold

The colors are the most saturated, making the subject pop out, and the picture looks like an oil painting.
HDR art embossed

The color saturation, brightness, contrast and gradation are decreased to make the picture look flat, so that the picture looks faded and old. The subject outlines will have intensely bright (or dark) edges.

https://cam.start.canon/en/C005/manual/html/UG-04_Shooting-1_0200.html

Picture Style Selection

Just by selecting a preset Picture Style, you can obtain image characteristics effectively matching your photographic expression or the subject.

https://cam.start.canon/en/C005/manual/html/UG-04_Shooting-1_0210.html

Picture Style Customization

You can customize any Picture Style by changing it from the default settings. For details on customizing [Monochrome], see

Monochrome Adjustment.

https://cam.start.canon/en/C005/manual/html/UG-04_Shooting-1_0220.html

Picture Style Registration

You can select a base Picture Style such as [Portrait] or [Landscape], adjust it as desired, and register it under [User Def. 1] – [User Def. 3]. Useful when creating several Picture Styles with different settings.

Picture Styles that you have registered on the camera using EOS Utility (EOS software, ) can also be modified here.

https://www.canon-europe.com/pro/infobank/picture-style/

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

justadude — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:00:17 GMT

John, Rick, and John... thanking all three of you for this great information. I'm going to forward these links and let my friend do some homework on the info before I give her a hand setting some of this up.

The only thing I think she will reject is the DPP4 suggestion because she is dead set on exporting JPEGs and calling them finished with no other effort. I tried talking her into some simple edit programs, and got the "You aren't listening to me" look. lol

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

johnrmoyer — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:58:21 GMT

@justadude wrote:

John, Rick, and John... thanking all three of you for this great information. I'm going to forward these links and let my friend do some homework on the info before I give her a hand setting some of this up.

The only thing I think she will reject is the DPP4 suggestion because she is dead set on exporting JPEGs and calling them finished with no other effort. I tried talking her into some simple edit programs, and got the "You aren't listening to me" look. lol

So far as I know, it is possible to set the camera to save both JPG and CR3 files and then change the style in the camera menus and save a new JPG file. So, the same photo can have more than one version with different styles all in the camera.

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

Sports_N_stuff — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:59:21 GMT

Yeah, Picture style have a lot of latitude and once you set it up you can apply them across the board. very powerful if you get it right. If I was learning a new system I'm not sure I'd start with picture styles, at least when it comes to tweaking/fixing color. The easiest, of course, is set it once in DPP4 and copy the parts of the recipe that you like, across all your files. No need to mess with catalogs either.

Re: EOS R7 JPG Picture Profiles / Recipes?

SignifDigits — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:15:45 GMT

Hard for us to let DPP4 and RAW go isn't it? @justadude LOL - we're not great at listening at taking people at face value sometimes. It is hard when our inner voice screams "no, no, you really DO want to take RAW and post -process like the rest of us!" But I can see where she's coming from. Zero post processing and 100% SOOC could be a sort of nirvana photography in a way, yes?

I really have no skills to offer here but find the idea fascinating and would ask that you apprise us of progress and let us know how things settle out. This would be extremely useful information the next time this topic comes around and someone wants to live in a 100% SOOC world.

Re: EOS R7 JPG Picture Profiles / Recipes?

johnrmoyer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:42:24 GMT

I think that setting the camera to record raw as well as JPG and later applying more than one style in the camera to create more than one JPG from the same shutter press is still SOOC. The camera manual has examples.

Why should it matter whether the style to use in the camera is chosen before or after the shutter press? It is still in the camera.

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

justadude — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:45:08 GMT

She went with one of the picture styles packs that John suggested, did some minor tweaks, and is happy with them. Not sure why learning a new system would matter with picture styles. It's kind of like any of my other brand digital cameras... RAW files are a bit different to edit on the very first upload into LR or PS, but after an hour of playing around, it's just as easy as the other systems. I'm guessing it was just as easy for her when she mentioned she did a few minor tweaks and was happy. You probably missed the part where I mentioned she wants straight out of the camera... so no DPP4 for her. Her style is the jpeg on the card is the finished product, and she's good at it, so why change?

Re: EOS R7 JPG Picture Profiles / Recipes?

justadude — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:58:47 GMT

Oh, I find it very easy to let DPP4 go. I kick and scream each time I have to use it, which fortunately is only for some of my infrared photography, and it's only for RAW color correction that LR or PS is having trouble with on those wavelengths. You would think with Canon's advance technology in the camera market that they could hire someone to take that antiquated piece of software, modernize it (it feels like something from 1998 - lol), and more than anything, fix the sluggishness of it. 😂 I can laugh at it, because it's used for less than 1% of my editing.

Personally, I like the editing of RAW files. While I am good at getting things 95% (or thereabouts) right in camera, there is always adjustments that either I want to do, or that a business would like with their particular branding style, or as simple as making minor tweaks because I think a print will sell better.

As for how things settled out... She did a search and found the picture styles pack that John suggested in the comments above in his screenshot, then did some minor tweaks to each one to match her taste. Last I heard, which was about two months later, she was happy with the results.

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:01:52 GMT

@justadude wrote:

She went with one of the picture styles packs that John suggested, did some minor tweaks, and is happy with them. Not sure why learning a new system would matter with picture styles. It's kind of like any of my other brand digital cameras... RAW files are a bit different to edit on the very first upload into LR or PS, but after an hour of playing around, it's just as easy as the other systems. I'm guessing it was just as easy for her when she mentioned she did a few minor tweaks and was happy. You probably missed the part where I mentioned she wants straight out of the camera... so no DPP4 for her. Her style is the jpeg on the card is the finished product, and she's good at it, so why change?

For many years folks shot with slide film. Chose the emulsion that fit what they were shooting. SOOC. Good enough for NatGeo.

The various Picture Styles attempt to emulate analog emulsions - some good and some not so good.

Re: Picture Profiles / Recipes?

justadude — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:41:46 GMT

For many years folks shot with slide film. Chose the emulsion that fit what they were shooting. SOOC. Good enough for NatGeo.

The various Picture Styles attempt to emulate analog emulsions - some good and some not so good.

I was heavily into slide film in the late 70's and through the 80's. I still shoot the occasional roll of Ektachrome (but more often than not, I shoot negative film). Personally, I'm not a fan of picture styles that try to look like film. I guess to my eyes they never look quite right... but for the people that like the picture styles, there are plenty of nice choices.