Picture Style (on a Canon camera), or Picture Control (on Nikon cameras) is a feature that lets you adjust image parameters to be captured and saved in JPG format. So this setting has no effect when we take pictures using the RAW file format. Ordinary digital camera as a pocket camera is not much to give us flexibility to determine and modify the image processing parameters. Generally they only give some basic options like Standard, Vivid and Natural. At a more sophisticated camera (prosumer or DSLR) allows us to maximize the processed images, so for those who do not want to be bothered to process on a computer, photo shots we can immediately displayed or printed. Options provided the camera to process images is basically just changing some of the following basic parameters:
- Sharpening (sharpness): digital manipulation tricks to make the image look sharper.
- Contrast (contrast): how wide the difference between light and dark areas of an image.
- Saturation (color density): how intense the colors in an image.
- Brightness (description): setting the brightness / brightness of an image.
- Hue (tonal color): color shift to setting a more precise color accuracy.
Of the five parameter settings can be produced on a variety of combinations that can be adapted to various needs, and tastes of the photographer. To accommodate several common conditions, the camera manufacturers already provide a preset that has been optimized for:
- Standard: the images with sharpness, contrast and saturation is increased to acceptable limits in general (this option is also the default style of the camera).
- Portrait: optimized to produce more accurate tonal human skin, the brightness is set higher with a sharpness that tends to be less (rather soft) in order to prevent wrinkles or acne on the face too apparent.
- Landscape: optimized for landscape photos with the extra sharpness and extra improved contrast and color in the green and blue landscape photos that appear to be more 'live'.
- Vivid (Nikon only): increasing the concentration of color become more powerful than the original color, it also improves sharpness and contrast for the images are more colorful than the original color.
- Neutral: the images are not processed, all control is made flat so easy to be processed again on the computer.
- Faithful (only the Canon): Standard, but the camera is almost like trying to keep a natural color stays its original color (if the standard has been further enhanced color saturation).
- Monochrome: by eliminating the elements of color, so we get a photo with shades of black and white (grayscale) for a particular need, where the sharpness and contrast settings will affect the shades of black and white you want highlighted.
Modern cameras even allow us to modify more preset form, and also provides several custom styles that can be saved for special conditions. If you want, we can also make a variety of styles through computer applications, such as a Picture Style Editor Canon and Nikon also have Picture Control Utility. Now have even encountered someone who makes himself a Picture Style settings and distributed even bought and sold, enough to download or copy the memory card or via a computer connected to the camera (eg with EOS Utility). Canon file extension. Pf2 and for Nikon is. NCP and the size is very small (under 100 bytes only).
