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Wow. Canon's DPP is superior to Adobe Lightroom v1.1 in RAW pp

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That "revert to original" feature has been around for a while, but I agree that there are elements about the program which are less than intuitive. The greatest change that I noted with the latest version is that it loads the raw thumbnails faster.

One of my quandries with DPP has been how to optimize workflow. Adobe's RAW offers greater flexibility and features and I often struggle as to what is best - tweaking things in the RAW converter or minimizing RAW processing and affecting most change in PS. Insights would be appreciated.

One of the things that surprised me about DPP was the "tone curve assist" utility. I'm not sure what algorithm they use, but it works much better than PS' Auto color. This is true for RAW files and less so for .jpgs.

On the drawback side, I've never been able to get the "transfer to PS" utility to work properly. It launches PS but the image never transfers.
 
I share the same findings:

Yes, In ACR, Light Room, one needs to turn up the sharpening (70 amount,1 radius,25 detail,0 mask) and cool down the white balance temperature by about 200-400 degree, and pick medium contrast for the tone curve. That setting closes matches the Canon picture style "standard setting". You can save the settings as a preset, then you are no more than a few clicks away to match DPP's look.

After the that, ACR/lightroom advantage begin to show. These 2 software give you far more control, and more options to tune the photo. High-light recovery is amazing, HSL adjustment, lens correction, viberance, many things DPP are not able to do.

It is fairly easy to make presets match all the DPP picture styles in light room. Somebody should do it:)
 
fwampler said:
I prefer DPP IQ but usually use LR because of its management functions.
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I fully agree. DPP gets better results but at too great a cost due to it's crude sliders and chunky unpleasant user interface. I use ACR because it is a pleasure - DPP seems like work.
 
xiaochun_g said:
After the that, ACR/lightroom advantage begin to show. These 2
software give you far more control, and more options to tune the
photo. High-light recovery is amazing, HSL adjustment, lens
correction, viberance, many things DPP are not able to do.
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Visit the Canon USA website and view the DPP video tutorials. There is a wealth of info there. Pay special attention to the Workflow tab - to the right of the Tutorial tab. there you'll get instructions on how to use the Luminance curve in the RGB tab in DPP which can be used for shadow and highlight recovery.
 
DPP is fast aned color accurate, but once you see all the adjustments with ACR 4.1, you see DPP as crude.

The trick is to readjust ACR4.1 default camera profile to match the picture set/style you are dealing with. That take time. But once done, you always use it, and then have the benfits of great adjustment in ACR that you do not have anything close to in DPP
 
For batch conversions on full auto mode without having to tweak settings, DXO is great. If you need to redo a shot for WB or other changes, I go back in and reprocess the ones I really like.

I also use Aperture on my Mac, but it does need a good video card on an intel Mac to really work well.

I haven't used DPP in a few years, I need to look at it again, I hear it's much better than previous versions. Yeah, I remember a very clunky interface when I used it too.
 
DPP is a propriety software built specifically for Canon cameras and so if you stick the CD into a disk drive and load the software on your computer and immediately begin to postprocess RAW images, I would be surprised if you didn't get excellent results

Lightroom and ACR were not meant to be used just with Canon cameras and need to be adjusted to your specific camera and color rendition preferences to get equally good results as using DPP with Canon

Lightroom has the most fast and efficient workflow but I would do most of my sharpening in Photoshop or create a droplet from a Photoshop sharpening action that can be used with the Lightromm export

So the original poster's findings are not anything surprising or unexpected

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xiaochun_g said:
It is fairly easy to make presets match all the DPP picture styles in
light room. Somebody should do it:)
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Any takers on designing a preset, or better yet a set of them?
 
They listened to me ... LOL

I am excited to see the posted improvements in the announced DPP3.2, but of course it will be November. Maybe, beginning 2008 I have enough updates to repeat the comparison. (Trying to include CaptureOne 4 and SilkyPix 3, but so far have no NFR license.)
tigger said:
Thomas Theuerkorn said:
Biggest issue with DPP is that it takes no measures whatsoever to
correct for lens problems like chromatic aberration.
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It will do that in version 3.2, which should be released end of this
year.
I am anxious to see how this works out.
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and that's why you'll get lots of resistance from the folks who shelled out big $$$$ for PS and lightroom.
 
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