Can Adobe Lightroom match Canon JPEG/DPP color from EOS RP and R6 RAW files?
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My Canon EOS RP and R6 produce JPEGs with the vibrant color I like, and Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP) gives RAW files a very similar look. In RawTherapee, the same RAW files look much duller by default. If I switch to Adobe Lightroom, can it reproduce the Canon-like color and picture style look from the camera/DPP, or will it still look different?
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DPP automatically applies the in camera jpeg settings (picture style) to a raw file, so it looks the same as a jpeg produced by the camera. Only the OEM software may be able to interpret everything 100%.
However, Adobe products use ACR (Adobe camera raw) for raw files, and it has the ability to apply profiles (default edits) based upon the picture style selected in the camera, or as desired. There are camera matching profiles for both the R6 and the RP. And these profiles can be applied automatically on import/opening.
However, these are Adobe's interpretation of the default picture styles; they are almost certainly not 100% the same. And any changes made to the picture style in camera will not be applied (for Canon CR3 files); whereas DPP would apply them. Also, not all picture styles are duplicated as Adobe camera profiles (e.g. fine detail and auto are not available).
This shows a Canon RP image and the profiles available for that camera (in Lightroom). You can see that it is quite vibrant by default... too much so for my taste. Camera landscape seems to be the most saturated/vibrant, and camera neutral the least; standard is what was set in camera.
You could also get the same/similar results in RawTherapee manually. And IMO it is worth learning to edit the images manually to get the look you want, regardless of what software is in use.
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Usually yes, to a degree. Canon DPP can match the camera JPEG look most closely because it reads and applies Canon’s in-camera Picture Style settings to the RAW file.
Lightroom uses Adobe Camera Raw profiles instead. For Canon cameras such as the EOS RP and R6, Lightroom offers camera-matching profiles that are designed to resemble Canon Picture Styles, and you can set them to apply automatically on import.
That said, Lightroom’s result is still Adobe’s interpretation, not an exact Canon rendering. So it can get closer to the vibrant Canon look than a neutral default conversion, but it will not be 100% identical to the in-camera JPEG or DPP output. Also, some in-camera Picture Style tweaks may not carry over the way they do in DPP.
So if exact Canon color is the goal, DPP is the safest choice. If you want a similar look with Lightroom, use the Canon camera-matching profiles as your starting point.
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