30D in camera menu filter problem

Hi everyone,

I have a 30 D and I've been playing with the in camera filter effects through the camera's menu.

My problem is that lets's say I use a red filter from the menu (NOT a screw on filter). When I take the shot and review it in camera - it's a monocrome shot. Perfect. Same as when I shoot monochrome sepia or green etc from the camera's menu. In camera the shot is monochrome.

But when I open it in bridge or photoshop...all the color is back in the shot.

Any suggestions on how to fix this so that I see the images WITHOUT color in PS or Bridge. (I am using CS2)

Thank you.

are you shooting in RAW?

woops - Yes. I am shooting RAW.

Thanks

Monochrome (and the filter efects) are basically all just variations on the Picture Styles within the Canon system. If you want to see (and optionally edit) the effect you need to use Canon's DPP software as that understands the Picture Styles. As far as any other software is concerned raw data is raw data is raw data. i.e. the Picture Styles are not understood by Photoshop etc.. If you shot a picture in Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful, Mono they would all look different in DPP but would all look identical in Photoshop/Lightroom etc..

barth wrote in post #3337238
woops - Yes. I am shooting RAW.

Thanks

oh ok. shoot in jpeg if you want the picture styles to be applied

Wow thanks for that amazing information guys! Just did a Jpeg test and it works!

Since I have never used DPP (should I?) - and it seems like I NEED to use DPP if I want to keep these filter effects in RAW. Does photoshop read DPP format.?I mean can I import the 'colorless' file into Photoshop from DPP.

Thanks again!

Barth

Photoshop will not take any notice of any of the camera settings or any edits you do in DPP if/when you shoot raw since all those parameters are invisible to Photoshop. Your options are....

1. Shoot in JPEG in the camera and then the camera settings will be applied. The problem then is that you will be editing in the JPEG domain with the attendent quality reduction. You will also not have access to the controls in DPP to further alter those camera settings after the event.

2. Shoot in raw and edit to your heart's content in DPP, playing around with filter effects etc.. Then export from DPP to TIFF (better quality) or JPEG files and then edit those files further in Photoshop.

Thanks so much for that info! - Got it.