DPP before/after comparison help

Thanks for the chuckle - great way to start the morning!
Diane

tonylong wrote in post #11927268
Heh! Let's have a show of hands to see how many of us have done something dopey in say the last couple of days!

Jeez... several times a day!

tzalman wrote in post #11925310
DPP uses your camera settings as its defaults. If you want DPP to default to 0 (Strength), set sharpness in your camera to 0.

I did not set the shapness in the G12. I have not looked yet but I do not know where or if Sharpness can be set in the G12. The PDF manual does not show "sharpness" inthe index.

Gil Bean wrote in post #11933370
I did not set the shapness in the G12. I have not looked yet but I do not know where or if Sharpness can be set in the G12. The PDF manual does not show "sharpness" inthe index.

If you are using DPP and Raw, the initial settings for parameters such as sharpness are set by your in-camera Picture Style. Open a Raw image in DPP and then change your Picture Style around and you should see settings change accordingly.

Gil Bean wrote in post #11933370
I did not set the shapness in the G12. I have not looked yet but I do not know where or if Sharpness can be set in the G12. The PDF manual does not show "sharpness" inthe index.

I just took a look at the G12 manual and I'm still in shock. Full of junky special features, like Auto Smile Detect ("Tell your subject to show a lot of teeth"), and something as basic as sharpness can't be controlled. Apparently the camera is fixed on one sharpness setting that DPP interprets as 7, the maximum. If you want less, you will have to turn it down yourself. The bright side is that if you shoot RAW you will have control over the conversion parameters that the camera left out - rather gross and partial control with DPP and finer and fuller control with a third party converter.

tonylong wrote in post #11934579
If you are using DPP and Raw, the initial settings for parameters such as sharpness are set by your in-camera Picture Style. Open a Raw image in DPP and then change your Picture Style around and you should see settings change accordingly.

tzalman wrote in post #11934645
I just took a look at the G12 manual and I'm still in shock. Full of junky special features, like Auto Smile Detect ("Tell your subject to show a lot of teeth"), and something as basic as sharpness can't be controlled. Apparently the camera is fixed on one sharpness setting that DPP interprets as 7, the maximum. If you want less, you will have to turn it down yourself. The bright side is that if you shoot RAW you will have control over the conversion parameters that the camera left out - rather gross and partial control with DPP and finer and fuller control with a third party converter.

If I understand y'all correctly , the only way I can change the Sharpness is open each photo in DPP amd mahually change it in Unsharp and Sharpness. I shoot exclusively RAW. That is a lot of work to go thru. There has got to be a better way. Is there not?

In the Main window (thumbnails), you can select all, invoke the tool palette (Ctrl T) and set the sharpness, as well as other parameters, for all selected images.

a.b.'s method is the best and fastest (and doesn't apply only to sharpening, you could, for instance, apply a custom WB to a group of images), but there are also other options. You can set one or more parameters for one image and then do Edit/Copy recipe and then, after selecting files, Edit/Paste recipe. Another method would be to do Edit/Save recipe in file and then at any time in the future to do Edit/Read and paste recipe for a group of selected images. At one time, in the days when I was using DPP, I used this last method to create and save a set of WB settings for different lighting conditions that were more accurate than the generic "Tungsten".

Gil Bean wrote in post #11939185
If I understand y'all correctly , the only way I can change the Sharpness is open each photo in DPP amd mahually change it in Unsharp and Sharpness. I shoot exclusively RAW. That is a lot of work to go thru. There has got to be a better way. Is there not?

Well, the nature of Raw shooting is that you can adjust everything to taste rather than just accept the in-camera jpeg settings. I don't know about the G12 -- if there are actually no in-camera settings for tweaking sharpness in your Picture Style then it's a good thing that you can do this in post-processing.

In DPP you can copy settings from one adjusted image to a set of selected images using the Edit/Copy Recipe to Clipboard function and then the Edit/Paste Recipe function, although I'll be honest -- this function seems "glitchy" to me and you may need to use the Copy to File function. At any rate, you can do batch processing with DPP both in applying settings and then to convert a batch of Raw files into jpegs.

Thank EACH OF YOU ab, tm & tl.

GilBean