@Kolourl3lind wrote:
I was just looking into DPP this morning. I didn't know I had it. All hear about LR and PS. I really just skipped over this program. To me, it doesn't matter what the format of the file is along as it's close to what I percieve I am taking a pictures of when I shoot through my view finder. I would like to know I have a good base to start working off when I make edits.
I am more in the camp of learning the photography and get it right at the time of the shoot. I have often walk home satisfied with my photos after viewing them on the LCD screen only to upload them in LR and scratch my head thinking this doesn't look like the picture I took.. I thought my screen must not be calibrated correctly.
Now that I know what's going on, it just make things easier. Just a large pot hole on the road of photography.
That's great. As I mentioned, make sure your version of DPP is current because they have added more functionality in the past months, for instance HDR using RAW, better compositing, better "preferences" control, just to name a few. No, it doesn't have some of the deep bells & whistles of LR, ACDSee, or AfterShot Pro2, or PSP-X6, but it is the right price and does a lot more than people think.
What I've done is when I catch myself making the same adjustment more than a few times, I make a custom picture style in my camera and apply that when I am shooting a similar situation. I may have a style where the color saturation is boosted a click or 2, or sharpness, or boosted brightness or contrast. Also, in DPP, after you have made some adjustments to an image, you can "right click" and copy those edits as a "Recipe". You can paste it to another image during that same session, or save it to a file and apply it in another editing session.
-FD
