Can Lightroom automatically apply my Canon 5D Mark II JPEG style adjustments to RAW imports?

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I use a custom in-camera setup on my Canon 5D Mark II that increases saturation by 1 and decreases contrast by 2. I know those settings affect JPEGs but not the RAW data itself.

When importing RAW files into Lightroom, can I have Lightroom automatically apply similar adjustments so the images start out looking like my camera JPEG settings?

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The in-camera contrast and saturation settings have no effect on a RAW file when opened in Lightroom. The Lightroom profile you have selected determines how the image is displayed based on the RAW data. You could create a customized profile in Lightroom with increased saturation and decreased contrast that is applied every time a RAW file is opened from a specific camera or even a specific camera/lens combination, but the settings applied would come from the Lightroom profile and not the in-camera settings. The same scene taken with the same ISO, shutter speed, and aperture and saved as RAW files will all appear identical when opened in Lightroom, regardless of what Picture Style and amounts of Contrast, Saturation, and so on were selected in-camera at the time each shot was taken. The only way to see the difference in in-camera settings for things such as Contrast and Saturation with a RAW file is to open them with an application that reads and applies the in-camera settings when displaying the RAW file. One such program would be Canon's Digital Photo Professional.

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Yes—Lightroom can automatically apply its own default adjustments on import, but it will not read and reproduce your camera’s in-camera JPEG settings for RAW files.

Your Canon contrast/saturation settings affect JPEG rendering in the camera, not the RAW data Lightroom uses. So RAW files from the same exposure will open the same in Lightroom regardless of the Picture Style or those in-camera tweaks.

What you can do is create a Lightroom preset or default develop settings that increase saturation and reduce contrast to your liking, then have Lightroom apply those automatically on import. You can also set defaults for a specific camera body, and in some workflows even for a camera/lens combination.

So the short answer is: Lightroom won’t copy the camera settings from the RAW file, but you can make Lightroom apply a similar look automatically using its own profile/preset/default settings.

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