- 2Introduction
- 3In the Box
- 3Item Check List
- 4Conventions Used in This Manual
- 5Chapters
- 6Table of Contents
- 10Index to Features
- 12Handling Precautions
- 14Quick Start Guide
- 16Nomenclature
- 18Lcd Panel
- 19Viewfinder Information
- 23Getting Started
- 24Charging the Battery
- 26Installing and Removing the Battery
- 27Turning On the Power
- 28Checking the Battery Level
- 28Battery Life
- 29Installing and Removing the CF Card
- 29Release Shutter Without Card
- 30Removing the Card
- 30Remove the Card
- 31Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- 32Zoom
- 33About the Lens Image Stabilizer
- 34Basic Operation
- 34Dioptric Adjustment
- 35Shutter Button
- 35Pressing Halfway
- 37Lcd Panel Illumination
- 38Q Using the Quick Control Screen
- 40Menu Operations
- 42Before You Start
- 42Setting the Interface Language
- 43Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- 43Date/Time/Zone
- 45Formatting the Card
- 46Set the Power-off Time/Auto Power Off
- 47Reverting the Camera to the Default Settings
- 49Displaying the Grid and Electronic Level
- 49Grid Display
- 50Electronic Level
- 51Basic Shooting
- 52Fully Automatic Shooting
- 54Full Auto Techniques
- 55C Creative Auto Shooting
- 55Creative Auto
- 58Setting the Image Review Time
- 59Image Settings
- 60Setting the Image-recording Quality
- 62Maximum Burst
- 63One-touch RAW+JPEG
- 64I: Setting the ISO Speed
- 65Iso Auto
- 66A Selecting a Picture Style
- 67About the Symbols
- 68A Customizing a Picture Style
- 70A Registering a Picture Style
- 72B: Setting the White Balance
- 73O Custom White Balance
- 74P Setting the Color Temperature
- 75White Balance Correction
- 76White Balance Auto Bracketing
- 77Auto Lighting Optimizer
- 78Lens Peripheral Illumination Correction
- 80Creating and Selecting a Folder
- 81Selecting a Folder
- 81About Folders
- 82Changing the File Name
- 84File Numbering Methods
- 85Auto Reset
- 85Manual Reset
- 86Setting the Color Space
- 87Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- 88F: Selecting the AF Mode
- 89Ai Servo Af for Moving Subjects
- 91S Selecting the AF Area
- 93AF Area Selection Modes
- 96When Autofocus Fails
- 96MF: Manual Focusing
- 97Selecting the Drive Mode
- 97Drive Modes
- 98Using the Self-timer
- 99Advanced Operations
- 100D: Program AE
- 102S: Shutter-Priority AE
- 104F: Aperture-Priority AE
- 105Depth of Field Preview
- 106A: Manual Exposure
- 107Selecting the Metering Mode
- 108Setting Exposure Compensation
- 109Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB)
- 110A AE Lock
- 110Ae Lock Effects
- 111F: Bulb Exposures
- 111Bulb
- 112Using the Eyepiece Cover
- 112Connecting the Remote Switch
- 113Mirror Lockup
- 114R Remote Control Shooting
- 114Remote Control
- 115D Using the Built-in Flash
- 116Using Red-eye Reduction
- 117Compensation
- 118Take the Picture
- 119Setting the Flash
- 119Flash Control
- 120Flash Mode
- 123Using Wireless Flash
- 127Basic Settings
- 131Flash Exposure Compensation
- 133External Flash
- 133External Speedlites
- 135Live View Shooting
- 136A Live View Shooting
- 139Shooting Function Settings
- 140Menu Function Settings
- 140Exposure Simulation
- 140Grid Display
- 142Using AF to Focus
- 149Focusing Manually
- 153Shooting Movies
- 153Movie Shooting
- 158Shooting Still Photos
- 159Shooting Function Settings
- 160Menu Function Settings
- 160Movie-recording Size
- 162Sound Recording
- 165Image Playback
- 166Single Image Display
- 167B Shooting Information Display
- 169H I Searching for Images Quickly
- 169Index Display
- 171U/y Magnified View
- 172Rotating the Image
- 173Rating
- 173Setting Ratings
- 175Q Quick Control During Playback
- 177Enjoying Movies
- 179Movie Playback
- 179Playing Movies
- 181Editing the Movie's First and Last Scenes
- 182Slide Show (Auto Playback)
- 183Start the Slide Show
- 184Viewing the Images On TV
- 186K Protecting Images
- 186Protect
- 187Erase
- 187L Erasing Images
- 189Changing Image Playback Settings
- 189Adjusting the LCD Monitor Brightness
- 190Auto Rotation of Vertical Images
- 191Post-Processing Images
- 192R Processing RAW Images With the Camera
- 192RAW Image Processing
- 195Distortion Correction
- 196Chromatic Aberration Correction
- 197S Resize
- 199Sensor Cleaning
- 200Automatic Sensor Cleaning
- 201Appending Dust Delete Data
- 202Photograph a Solid-white Object
- 203Manual Sensor Cleaning
- 205Printing Images
- 206Preparing to Print
- 208WPrinting
- 210Set the Printing Effects
- 211Start Printing
- 213Trimming the Image
- 214Error Messages
- 215W Digital Print Order Format (DPOF)
- 217Print Ordering
- 218W Direct Printing With DPOF
- 219Customizing the Camera
- 220Setting Custom Functions
- 221Custom Functions
- 222Custom Function Settings
- 222C.Fn I: Exposure
- 224C.Fn II: Image
- 225C.Fn III: Autofocus/Drive
- 225Highlight Tone Priority
- 230Setting Procedure
- 231C.Fn IV: Operation/Others
- 231Custom Controls
- 233C.Fn IV -1: Custom Controls
- 237Electronic Level
- 238Registering My Menu
- 239Register Camera User Settings
- 240Shooting Functions
- 240Menu Functions
- 241Setting Copyright Information
- 243Reference
- 244B Button Functions
- 245Shooting Settings
- 246Checking the Battery Information
- 250Using a Household Power Outlet
- 251Replacing the Date/Time Battery
- 252System Map
- 254Function Availability Table
- 256Menu Settings
- 261Troubleshooting Guide
- 267Error Codes
- 268Specifications
- 281Software Start Guide
- 282Picture Style Editor
- 284Installing the Software On Macintosh
- 286Index
The Canon digital workflow is centred round the use of Picture Styles. To help to put you in control of your colour, Canon has developed Picture Style Editor, a software program for use by photographers who want to have the most creative control of the colours in their images.
It allows you to create your own personalised Picture Style files to achieve the look you want in your images. These Picture Styles can then be applied to your images in the RAW processing or loaded onto the camera and applied at the time of shooting.
The colour in an image is made up of three components - hue, saturation and luminosity. The hue is the colour - red, green, blue etc. The saturation is how vivid the colour is and the luminosity is the brightness of the colour.
The HSL colour space can be represented by a double cone showing the three axes of hue, saturation and luminosity.
Every colour within an image can be mapped somewhere on this double cone-shaped graph by a series of numerical values indicating its precise co-ordinates. Once you can pinpoint the co-ordinates of a pixel on this graph, you can easily adjust them to get exactly the colour you want to your precise adjustments.
The series of ‘how to’ videos you can easily access below will talk you through how to using Picture Style Editor. But before you begin, there is some housekeeping that you'll need to do on your computer to make sure that you’re seeing accurate colours.
Colour management has been covered on the CPN website here and here so it would be worth reading those articles too if you haven't done so already.
You need to start by calibrating your monitor. Without a calibrated monitor, any adjustments you make will be worthless and simply guesswork as you will not be seeing the true colours. Using something like a Gretag Macbeth EyeOne or ColorVision Spyder to calibrate your monitor is the first step. Although it is possible to carry out colour calibration using software only, this is not as accurate as a hardware based system and as a professional photographer, colour should be of paramount importance.
Below is a series of videos that guides you through using Picture Style Editor. In the first video, you’ll see how to set up the colour space in the preferences panel and make preliminary adjustments, and from there, you’re ready to start making colour adjustments.
Adjusting colours
Saving a picture style file
Know your limits
If you look at the red square in the bottom right corner of this image it highlights the before and after values of adjustments in Picture Style Editor. The colour co-ordinates you have selected to edit is shown in the box to the left, the colour co-ordinates after editing are shown on the right, in this case, the adjustment has made the Luminosity 50, which provides a greater range for saturation adjustment.
When you’re adjusting the Hue, Saturation and Luminosity sliders within Picture Style Editor, you may notice that there are certain limits beyond which you can’t adjust the saturation. This is because of the luminosity of the colour. The simple rule is that if you want to make colours more vivid, you need to adjust the luminosity so it is closer to 50 - as shown in the screen shot below.
If the colour co-ordinates of your selected colour have a luminosity value that's less than 50, then increasing the value towards 50 will make the colour more vivid. However, if the luminosity 'L' value is already greater than 50, then adjusting the slider to bring the value back closer to 50 will tone down the colour and make it darker.
The standard setup of Picture Style Editor will help you to control this. If you adjust the saturation such that you will pass the limit of what can be achieved with the current luminosity setting, the luminosity will be automatically changed. If you are certain that you don’t want the luminosity value to change, then hold down the shift key on your keyboard while adjusting the saturation slider and you will effectively lock the luminosity value in place.
Picture Style File
The picture style file you create in Picture Style Editor is only supported in Digital Photo Professional version 3.1 onwards, EOS Utility version 2.1 onwards and RAW Image Task version 2.7.
Where to get it
Picture Style Editor comes bundled on the CD with the EOS 40D and EOS-1Ds Mark III. If you have a previous EOS model, you can download the software from the Canon website here: Just select your camera, select the software option and find the Picture Style Editor software in the list.
Installation instructions given below and in the file. Please GOTO: Instructions: 1. Autodesk autocad 2014 serial number.
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