Just a beginner

I just moved up from p&s to the XSi and I'm trying to find out about all the functionality. I've been with Canon for a long time and love the Color Accent feature in the Powershot. Is there some thing similar, or better, in the XSi? I haven't found anything yet.

Thanks!

I don't believe there is anything similar in Canon DSLRs, but you can easily achieve the effect with post processing software.

With a DSLR many people shoot in RAW and process every image. What you get out of the camera (in RAW) is not really a final product...it's a two stage (at least) process.

Thank you so much. I appreciate the feedback. I have been playing with some basic software and was able to figure some of it out.

Thanks!

dbabz wrote in post #8713614
I just moved up from p&s to the XSi and I'm trying to find out about all the functionality. I've been with Canon for a long time and love the Color Accent feature in the Powershot. Is there some thing similar, or better, in the XSi? I haven't found anything yet.

Thanks!

I think the equivalent in the XSi would be picture styles, if shooting JPEG:
http://www.learnslr.co​m …er/picture-style-for-jpgs

Another real quick and drastic preset type setting comes in the form of Adobe Lightroom's Presets. People usually make their own and can be extremely useful and powerful.

http://www.adobe.com …plightroom/?pro​moid=DJDWV

You can download a trial, and just google in presets on and there will be lots of free downloads on sites....it's also a stellar program for editing if you don't want to get real deep with photoshop.