Can you undo Nikon D5200 'Color Sketch' mode after shooting?
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I accidentally shot a batch of photos on a Nikon D5200 with the in-camera 'Color Sketch' effect enabled. Is there any way to recover normal-looking images, or are those files permanently altered? Does it make a difference if I shot RAW or RAW+JPEG instead of JPEG only?
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No. Effects are almost all irreversible. This is because the vast majority of them remove details, gradations and color. Sketch look removes color-variations as do most types of painterly, pop art, etc effects, depending on the camera. Even something like the miniature effect blurs details out of most of the image which makes them unrecoverable.
Now as @Philip said, if you have a RAW file, then the effect is not applied on your data, only shown as processing. This lets you reset and do your own processing to produce a more natural looking image.
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Usually no—if the photos were saved only as JPEGs with Color Sketch applied, the effect is effectively baked in and cannot be fully reversed. In-camera effects typically discard color and tonal detail, so there isn’t enough original information left to restore a true normal image.
If you shot RAW or RAW+JPEG, you may be able to recover the original look from the RAW files. The effect is generally just applied to the camera-generated preview/JPEG, while the RAW data remains available for normal processing in Nikon software or other RAW editors.
A photo editor might partially reduce the effect on JPEGs, but results are unlikely to be good unless the images are especially important.
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