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Danny
Hello, I have an EOS Rebel T7. I use the EOS utility to take the pictures using the computer, then I edit in photoshop. I'm shooting in raw mode. You can see in the screenshot I have my photo ready to be taken as I want it, but then when I open it on the computer, it isn't coming out as I photographed it raw. Any ideas? Thank you for the help. It might be hard to tell, but they are coming out way more washed out as if the aperture was too high, when in reality I have it how I want it. Photo on right is in the viewfinder how I want it, photo on left has been taken and opened in photoshop, but had nothing done to it.
Adobe uses its own processing methodology and colour profiles when processing RAW files, and this is different to what the Canon software / camera uses.
Assuming you use the "Standard" picture style on the camera you get a balanced slightly contrasty, slightly saturated result. But when you open the RAW in Photoshop Adobe by default applies the Adobe Color profile which is much flatter and less contrasty than the Canon one. In Photoshop / Camera RAW you can select the profile to use. If you browse the profiles you should find some camera matching ones that are Adobe's version of the Canon Picture Styles even though they are not a direct match.
See the screenshot of the camera RAW window where I highlighted the profile box.
In addition to Brian's explanation, you also have the issue of you monitor brightness setting. You can select the Camera matching profile as you camera in Photoshop and then adjust your monitor brightness so it is closer to how the image looks on the back of your camera.
You can also use a standardized test image like this and tweak your display to get a good image. Concentrate on getting an even distribution of brightness in the highlighted squares.
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Most displays come from the factory too bright and with high contrast because it makes web browsing easier to read.
You can set your own choice of settings for the "default" that Adobe Camera Raw to use.
You need to click on the three dots on the right side of the camera raw window, then choose the last option to Set Raw Defaults. Then you can choose to apply a custom preset, but one of the options is to use Camera Settings, which means that Camera RAW will pick up the camera picture style and use the appropriate and similar Adobe style automatically for every image.
See the two screenshots from Photoshop on my Mac.
