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Q: Why does Photo change colors/grade on my RAW files.

I have El Capitan. Every time. I import RAW's into photo. In the preview and overview thumbnails they look great and have the flat RAW look just like I want to have them. The minute I click on a photo to embiggen it, it applies some horrendous high contrast, super high saturation look. Mind you, I have not started color correcting it yet. And after this has been applied, it's almost impossible to regrade it back it the flat, low con, desaturated look it had in RAW without introducing artifacts and grain. Why can't this app just leave the RAW file alone so I can grade it somewhere else? Under Preferences there is nothing. How do I make it stop ruining my photos?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015)

Posted on Aug 25, 2016 8:24 AM

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Q: Why does Photo change colors/grade on my RAW files.

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Aug 25, 2016 3:24 PM in response to stratobee
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    Aug 25, 2016 3:24 PM in response to stratobee

    I have El Capitan. Every time. I import RAW's into photo. In the preview and overview thumbnails they look great and have the flat RAW look just like I want to have them.The minute I click on a photo to embiggen it, it applies some horrendous high contrast, super high saturation look.

    The previews and thumbnails have been generated by the camera, but do not show you, what the RAW file is like.  When you enlarge the photo the first time, Photos will create new thumbnails from the RAW files. Photos does not apply any in-camera settings - if you desaturated the RAW photos in the camera when you took them, the in-camera processing will be lost, when Photos is reading the RAW.

     

    it is similar to how RAW is handled in Aperture. 

    Have you read Keith Barkley's user Tip?  The Big Three: Setting your camera for the best Aperture RAW results

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6511