Processing in Camera Special Processing

OK, I've posted this in another thread but no one seems to be looking at that thread so I'll post it here since I've had Canon cameras that did the same thing.

So I hardly ever use the artistic dial settings until now. I just got a Lumix FZ1000 and was playing around with the Art setting the other day. I got some really cool shots according to the review screen. Problem is, when I bring the photos into Photoshop I see my settings have not been applied to the photos. They just look like regular photos. But I used the SILKYPIX Developer Studio 4.1 SE that came with the camera and saw a preview of the photo I took with the camera settings but again, it just looks like a regular photo in the actual editor. Do I need to apply the settings manually in my photo editor to get these to come up the way they looked in the camera?

I know nothing about that camera, but it sound like behavior you would get if shooting Raw: your in-camera preview shows an embedded jpeg with your in-camera settings but if you open it in a Raw processor (such as Adobe Camera Raw) all those custom settings are ignored.

If the camera came with software you might give it a try. Canon cameras come with the Canon Raw processing software Digital Photo Professional (DPP) and when you open a Canon Raw file the viewer shows all your custom in-camera settings.

+1 to the above. In-camera processing only applies when you shoot JPEG. The camera will process the image and spit it out with the creative edits applied. If you shoot RAW, you get RAW data (which may include some details of what in-camera processing was selected) but most RAW editors can't emulate the in-camera processing so they ignore it.

The camera makers own post processing software will usually be able to recreate the in-camera effects but third party programs like Lightroom, Capture One, Photoshop etc wont.

I'll have to bite the bullet and shoot in jpg the next time I want to try out those settings.