Can Lightroom apply different import presets based on Canon Picture Style metadata?
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I shoot RAW on a Canon camera and switch between Picture Styles while shooting, especially between a normal color style and Monochrome. On import, Lightroom initially shows the embedded preview correctly, but once it renders its own previews, the monochrome RAW files appear in color.
I’d like Lightroom to automatically apply one develop preset to images shot with a color Picture Style and a different preset to images shot with the Canon Monochrome Picture Style.
The PictureStyle value does exist in the RAW metadata (for example, in Canon maker notes), but Lightroom doesn’t seem to expose it for filtering. Is there any way in Lightroom to do this automatically, or is there a practical workaround?
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There is a solution provided by Jeffrey Friedl and his awesome Lightroom plugin "Data Explorer".
- download and install the plugin
- select all the images, which have different canon styles applied, you want to process. the free version of the plugin is limited to handling a maximum of 500 images at once. Edit > Select all
- run the data explorer. File > Plug-in Extras > Explore...
choose "User-Specified Master-File Data Field" in the "Explore" Field and "MakerNotes:PictureStyle" in the "Field" field and press the "Begin" button.
Press the "isolate" or "Isolate Each Reslut to its own Collection" Button to get a Collection which have, for example, only the "Monocrom" Picture Style.
- Then apply a "Saved Preset" from the Quick Develop Section. For example Lightroom B&W Presets > B&W Look1
you are done. all your canon monochrom picture styled images have now a LR B&W preset applied.
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Not natively. Lightroom generally ignores Canon maker-note metadata, which is where Picture Style is stored, so it won’t automatically apply import presets based on that field. That’s also why monochrome camera styles show only in the embedded preview at first; once Lightroom renders the RAW itself, it uses its own interpretation.
A workable Lightroom-based workaround is to use Jeffrey Friedl’s Data Explorer plugin. It can read the maker-note field (for example, MakerNotes:PictureStyle), isolate images by Picture Style into collections, and then you can batch-apply the appropriate saved preset from Quick Develop.
If you want Canon Picture Styles honored automatically from the RAW file, Canon Digital Photo Professional is the more direct option, since Canon’s own software reads and applies those in-camera settings.
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