Image settings and sha-nanny-gans

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Image settings and sha-nanny-gans

Ok, this one is ******* me off. 😝 I'm using a new Canon 60D. I was experimenting with a monochrome setting on my camera where I can go in and add a filter effect, ie. Yellow, Orange, Red or Green as well as Toning effects sepia, blue, Purple or Green. Simple enough....the add cool effects to black and white images right from the camera.

I pop the disk out of the camera and into my Mac and load aperture. The images import and all that fun stuff. When I look into the folder/Project the images are as what I seen on my camera. However...When I double click the image to edit and see full size of the Medium Raw image, it shows up for a moment as taken on my camera, then it changes to full color and stays that way. What the **** is that all about?

Any help would be appreciated. This is a great program, I really hope that I have just over looked a setting or something.

Thanks

Allen

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 5:47 PM

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Kirby Krieger

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Sep 20, 2012 5:59 PM in response to sevenstring

Hi Allen. Are you by any chance recording your exposures to RAW files?

If so, what you are experiencing is normal and correct. This has been covered many times, with some excellent posts -- I'll search for them and post links, but in the meantime, you should as well.

RAW is _sensor_ data. It _never_ includes post-exposure-processing. All of the effects you mention are post-exposure-processing done by the computer in your camera and saved to a (not RAW) file (always JPG).

Aperture by default shows you the JPG "thumbnail" that tags along with the RAW file until it (Aperture) has finished converting the RAW file. The JPG includes all in-camera processing. The RAW file doesn't.

Some other posts on this:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4080239?answerId=18826017022#18826017022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4028949?answerId=18654080022#18654080022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3906843?answerId=18235856022#18235856022

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger - links added.

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sevenstring Author

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Sep 20, 2012 6:01 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

Kirby, thank you so much for your quick answer. As soon as I read that, I had to slap myself in the face...I knew that... what an idiot...lol. It's very reassuring that there are people out there (like yourself) that are so willing to quickly shoot some answers at some poor bloak that has been up to long....

Thanks again my friend!

Allen

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