Sticky: The custom picture style (PF2) thread

As suggested by oli - a thread to post custom picture styles you've created or found!

Try to only post picture styles, discussion can go in the "Picture style editor" thread

To start of..

• Panavision Genesis Panalog4 WIP look (mirror) - by Noah Yuan-Vogel on the DVInfo.net forums

I tried to get rid of the crushed blacks and get a really flat picture to retain as much dynamic range as possible. Pretty much get close to what the RED raw image looks like.
Also reduced saturation and removed sharpening.
See the 3 images comparing my preset, James Miller's "Advanced Flat" and Canons "Standard"
Let me know what you think.

you can download the pf2 file here:
Superflat Version 01

Here's my picture style


James Miller's "Advanced Flat"


Canon's "Standard"

Excellent work Stubbs!

Can you please upload your picture style to a file sharing service like yousendit?

Also, can you run us through what's happenning with your picture style?

I'd love to know how it performs at higher ISOs. Is there a lot of noise in the shadow areas?

thanks hyalinejim

i added a download link above

i just started playing around with the picture style editor, I didnt dig deep into it yet.
so with this attempt i just adjusted the curves to brighten the blacks and darken the whites a bit. Further i switched sharpening and contrast to 0 and saturation to -2.

in a next step i guess i should adjust the colorwheel individually, but i havent completely figured the software out yet.
and i guess the curve could use some more subtle adjustment.

Sorry, if it´s already answered somewhere else but how can you get the picture styles on the camera ? Just put it on the CF card and run it ?

[galexa]

Download to camera via software that comes with the camera:
http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/pro ... our_way.do

Download to camera via software that comes with the camera:
http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/pro ... our_way.do

thanks a lot

Double posting this


Richard Miller's Advanced flat



Canon Standard

More tests, smoking perch.

James Miller's Advanced flat



Velvia style



Velvia style



James Miller's Advanced flat

After downloading and installing James Miller's (I do believe it's James, not sure where Richard came from unless there are two philanthropic and experimental Millers out there) Advanced Flat picture style, I put it to the test. I will not be using it for three reasons.

1. When applying it to RAW photos in the Picture Style Editor it does something weird to the shadow detail due to the colour corrections in it which overlap (that's why there's a yellow exclamation mark icon next to them). There isn't a smooth transition of the lifted shadow tones into the rest of the tones.

2. When checking the histogram on the LCD it seemed to me that the dynamic range isn't increased, the tones close to the highlights and shadows are just made more grey, but the extreme ends of the histograms stay the same. The curve in the Profile Editor is a crude tool.

3. I can get cleaner results shooting with Faithful or Neutral and then raising the pedestal and lowering the gain in Color Finesse (beautiful plugin free with After Effects) - less noise and it just looks better.

Basically, Advanced Flat messes with colours and introduces more noise. You can get cleaner results with similar amounts of detail in post.

What do you guys think? Here's an over the top example of what I mean:

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